Drivkrafterna bakom de svenska fastighetspriserna

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this essay is to investigate the question of which factors affect Swedish real estate prices of small-house dwellings. Previous studies have commonly used a limited number of variables. In contrast, we extend the number of variables in this study. Previous studies indicate that interest, disposable income and demographical factors have most influence on real estate prices. However, the conclusion of our study is that GDP, industrial production, household debt and short term interest are significant in the short run. In the long run, the factors affecting Swedish real estate prices include GDP, industrial production, household debt, production of dwellings, disposable income and unemployment. We retrieved the result by applying methods such as cointegration test, unit root test, causality tests and regression.