Rent

When you rent a rental home, you must first and foremost pay rent - this covers the actual rent for the home and in some cases other possible costs such as resident representation, tax and antenna contributions. The rent must be paid every month, unless otherwise agreed. In addition to the rent itself, you have to pay for the consumption of heat and water - this is often paid directly to the landlord, but in some cases it is something that the tenant must make an agreement with the supplier about. In addition, tenants often have to provide and pay for electricity and internet themselves.

When we talk about the rent itself, it can be priced for several different ways:

Cost-effective rent

will be determined on the basis of the operating expenses and the return on the property. In other words, the rent is determined by what it costs to run the property and how much the landlord earns on it. These operating expenses typically consist of taxes, fees, renovation, administration, common lighting, caretaker etc.

The value of the rental

these are often homes that are not covered by the Housing Regulation Act, ie. Built after 1991. When a rent is determined according to the value of the rent, it means that the starting point is what a similar home with the same location, type, size and quality costs.

Market rent

When the rent is determined by the market, these are often newer properties, where the landlord has decided that the rent must be determined according to the market rent. The market rent is the rent that the landlord and tenant can agree on, and which corresponds to the market value in relation to the other rental terms for the home. There are different ways of determining a rent for this, but common to them all is that if the tenant is dissatisfied with the rent and believes that it is set higher than similar homes, the tenant always has the opportunity to complain to the rent board. In addition, housing benefit can be applied for for the fixed rent without consumption.