The Path to a New Home

The Stockholm Housing Agency – Bostadsförmedlingen – assign more than 50 apartments every day. Here is a brief description of how we can help you find a new apartment.

1. Join the queue

Anyone who is aged 18+ and who has a Swedish national identification
(personnummer) or coordination number (samordningsnummer) can join the housing queue. You sign up here on our website.

It costs SEK 200 per year. You can have a co-applicant people and queue jointly with them.

2. Search and register your interest

It’s up to you to search for and register your interest in the vacant apartments advertised on our website. You’ll find available properties listed under Lediga bostäder (Search properties).

When you are logged in to our website, you can register your interest in available apartments.

Landlords’ letting requirements may differ: some may, for example, require a minimum income, while others will accept tenants on income support.

You may register an interest in a maximum of three apartments at the same time.

You will often have to queue for some time to get an apartment. The time you need in the queue will depend on the apartment's location and the rent you can afford. Queueing times are often shorter outside central Stockholm or for higher rent apartments.

3. View an apartment

If you’ve registered your interest and if you’ve been queueing for longer than other applicants, you’ll be invited to a viewing. Some landlords do not offer viewings, in which case you can view a floor plan.

Most landlords will require you to attend a viewing. Make sure you have all the verifications you need ready, because things can move fast once you’ve accepted an apartment.

4. Accept or decline

After the viewing, you need to decide ifyou are still interested in the apartment. The easiest way to do this is to go to Mina sidor (My Pages) on our website where you can answer Yes or No.

On your invitation to the apartment viewing it will state the date by when you must accept or decline interest in the apartment.

You may be offered several alternative apartments, particularly with newbuild apartments. If this happens, you must state your order of preference for the apartments you are interested in.

5. Show verification

If you have been in the queue for longer than everyone else who expressed an interest after the viewing, we will contact you. You will then need to provide verification showing that you meet the landlord’s requirements for the apartment.

The most common types of verification needed are certificates of employment and income, proof of where you are currently living, and of the number of people in your household.

Students applying for student housing may need to be able to prove that they are enrolled in a university, college or vocational programme.

You will need to be able to show verification promptly after we call you, so it’s a good idea to have all of your verifications ready in advance.

6. Sign the contract and move in

Once you’ve provided verifications showing that you meet the landlord’s requirements, we will propose you to the landlord as a tenant. Once the landlord has approved you, you and the landlord will sign the contract. And then it’s time to move in!

All contact after this point will be with your landlord. You will pay the rent to the landlord.

Remember to notify the Swedish Tax Agency (Skatteverket) of the change
in your official registered address when you move in.

7. Congratulations on your new apartment!

We hope you’ll be very happy there! As long as you keep paying the annual fee, you will remain in the housing queue, but you will go to the back of the queue and your new queueing time will start on the date when you got your new apartment.

Exceptions: You will keep your position in the queue if you have received a short-term contract, student housing or senior housing 65+.