SUMMARY
Are small apartments in Oslo still overpriced? Yes, partly. The segment remains expensive relative to incomes and mortgage costs, but good compact apartments are better supported by rents and scarcity than the headline price-per-square-metre numbers suggest.
The small-apartment premium is still very real. Compact Oslo homes can trade far above the citywide average per square metre because the total purchase price stays inside the financing range of far more buyers.
That is the key distortion in this market: buyers do not really choose between a cheap square metre and an expensive one. They choose between the homes their bank will finance, and that pushes a lot of demand into roughly the NOK 4–5 million range.
Oslo’s wider resale market is soft enough to give buyers more leverage. Price growth is weak, supply is high, transaction activity is subdued, and OBOS pre-emption use has fallen sharply, so a mediocre small flat no longer deserves an automatic scarcity premium.
The lower equity requirement widened the pool of buyers able to compete at the bottom of the market. Moving from 15% to 10% equity did not create the small-unit premium, but it made it easier for income-qualified buyers with limited savings to bid for entry-level apartments.
High mortgage rates cut both ways. They hurt affordability, but they also force buyers down the price ladder, which can keep demand concentrated in studios and one-bedroom flats even while larger homes soften.
Rents now provide much more support than they did a few years ago. Advertised studio and two-room rents have risen much faster than Oslo sale prices lately, so a well-bought compact apartment can still produce a gross yield around 4.5–5%.
That does not make every studio attractive. Once the implied gross yield slips toward 3–3.5%, especially on a compromised flat with high common charges or common debt, the buyer is paying heavily for scarcity, location and future appreciation.
The landlord sell-off is one of the more revealing patterns. Many small apartments no longer work well as leveraged rentals at mortgage rates above 5%, yet owner-occupiers still want them, so investor selling can soften sale prices while tightening the rental market at the same time.
A functional two-room apartment is usually the safer version of this trade. It appeals to more buyers and renters, and the extra total cost can be surprisingly small once the studio’s price-per-square-metre premium becomes extreme.
The practical conclusion is to stop treating a high m² price as the problem by itself. The real danger is paying a huge scarcity premium for a mediocre apartment simply because it is the only one that fits the mortgage ceiling.
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Are small apartments in Oslo still much more expensive per square metre?
Yes. Small apartments in Oslo still carry a heavy price-per-square-metre premium, even though the wider Oslo housing market is currently one of Norway’s weakest.
OBOS gives us a useful reality check because its resale statistics cover roughly a quarter of Oslo’s used-home market. The average price for an OBOS-linked home in Oslo was NOK 85,275 per m² in the latest figures. OBOS has also repeatedly pointed out that its monthly average moves depending on how many small apartments are sold because compact homes normally trade at considerably higher prices per square metre than larger ones.
That premium can become extreme at the bottom of the market. A tiny Fagerborg apartment that needed renovation sold for roughly NOK 196,000 per m² after heavy bidding in 2025. That was an outlier, but central studios above NOK 120,000 or NOK 140,000 per m² are far less unusual.
The total bill matters more than the headline m² number. A 30 m² apartment at NOK 140,000 per m² costs NOK 4.2 million. A 70 m² apartment at the much cheaper rate of NOK 90,000 per m² costs NOK 6.3 million. Far more Oslo buyers can finance the first purchase, which helps explain why the smaller home can sustain the higher m² price.
| Example | Size | Price per m² | Total price | What the buyer faces |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Larger apartment | 70 m² | NOK 90,000 | NOK 6.30m | Better value per m², much higher entry price |
| Compact apartment | 40 m² | NOK 110,000 | NOK 4.40m | Accessible to many more buyers |
| Central small apartment | 30 m² | NOK 140,000 | NOK 4.20m | Expensive space, manageable total price |
| Extreme micro-flat example | 25 m² | NOK 196,000 | NOK 4.90m | Scarcity can push m² pricing very far |
Has Oslo’s housing market become weak enough to make small apartments cheap?
No. Oslo housing is unusually soft right now, but small apartments have not become cheap simply because the wider market has slowed.
Eiendom Norge’s latest figures show Oslo prices up only 0.3% so far this year, the weakest performance among the major Norwegian markets. The national increase is much larger. Eiendom Norge also says Oslo still has a large number of homes available for sale.
OBOS tells the same story from another angle. Used OBOS homes in Oslo were 1.4% cheaper than a year earlier in the latest month, despite rising 2.7% since the start of the year. Only 575 OBOS homes changed hands, 12% fewer than one year earlier and the lowest total for that month in ten years.
Buyers also used OBOS pre-emption rights in only 18.9% of relevant transactions, down from 30.6% a year earlier. Buyers tend to lean on pre-emption more heavily when competition is fierce, so that drop is hard to ignore.
Small apartments still have one advantage in this slower market: their total prices place them inside more household budgets. A mediocre NOK 8 million apartment can sit unsold while several households compete for a decent NOK 4 million one. Today’s weak Oslo market has reduced the premium buyers should tolerate, but it has not removed the underlying demand for entry-level flats.
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Why do tiny Oslo apartments cost so much?
Because Oslo buyers are constrained by the total amount they can borrow, and that concentrates a huge amount of demand into relatively few small apartments.
Consider two homes. A 32 m² flat costs NOK 4.2 million. A much better-value 70 m² apartment costs NOK 6.4 million. Anyone approved for only NOK 4.5 million cannot choose between the two; only the smaller home exists in that buyer’s market.
That sounds obvious, but it explains a large part of Oslo’s strange pricing. When thousands of first-time buyers cluster below roughly the same financing ceilings, demand becomes extremely concentrated around studios and one-bedroom apartments.
Norges Eiendomsmeglerforbund’s research on first-time buyers reinforces this point. Apartments account for almost all first-home purchases in Oslo, and the average Oslo first-time buyer was already paying more than NOK 5 million in 2025 while getting progressively less space for the money.
This is why a small apartment can be expensive per square metre without being irrationally priced. The scarce thing is often the NOK 4–5 million entry ticket, rather than the physical square metre itself.
Did the lower down-payment requirement push small Oslo apartment prices higher?
Yes. Cutting Norway’s standard equity requirement from 15% to 10% made entry-level Oslo apartments easier to bid for, especially for buyers who had enough income but too little cash.
A NOK 4 million purchase used to require NOK 600,000 of equity under the standard 15% rule. At 10%, the requirement falls to NOK 400,000. On a NOK 5 million property, the gap is NOK 250,000.
Finanstilsynet’s mortgage survey later confirmed that borrowers actually changed their behavior after the rule moved. New mortgage lending shifted clearly toward the new 90% loan-to-value ceiling, and Finanstilsynet said the reduction in the equity requirement had unquestionably led more borrowers to finance a larger share of their homes.
First-time buyers are especially exposed to this effect. Finanstilsynet found a substantial increase in mortgages with loan-to-value ratios between 85% and 90% among first-time buyers.
The rule did not create Oslo’s small-apartment premium. It was already there. But it widened the pool of people able to compete for homes at the bottom of the price ladder, precisely where supply is tightest.
| Purchase price | Equity at 15% | Equity at 10% | Cash requirement falls by |
|---|---|---|---|
| NOK 3.5m | NOK 525k | NOK 350k | NOK 175k |
| NOK 4.0m | NOK 600k | NOK 400k | NOK 200k |
| NOK 4.5m | NOK 675k | NOK 450k | NOK 225k |
| NOK 5.0m | NOK 750k | NOK 500k | NOK 250k |
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Why haven’t high mortgage rates crushed small Oslo apartment prices?
High mortgage rates have already hurt Oslo housing prices, but they also push buyers toward cheaper properties, which keeps demand concentrated in small apartments.
Statistics Norway’s latest available figures put the average rate on new Norwegian home loans at 5.29%. Outstanding mortgages averaged 5.31%. Those are still expensive borrowing costs for a market where households tend to use floating-rate debt.
A buyer putting 10% down on a NOK 4 million apartment borrows NOK 3.6 million. At roughly 5.3% over 30 years, the mortgage payment is around NOK 20,000 a month before common charges and other ownership costs. A NOK 5 million purchase with the same leverage pushes the payment toward NOK 25,000.
Norway’s lending rules add another ceiling. Total debt generally cannot exceed five times gross annual income, and banks must test whether borrowers can cope with a three-percentage-point rate increase or at least a 7% interest rate.
Those constraints clearly help explain why Oslo prices have barely moved this year. They also make the affordable end of the market unusually crowded. Someone who can no longer finance a NOK 5.5 million apartment may try to buy at NOK 4.5 million instead. Buyers keep moving down the ladder until they reach a property the bank will finance.
Small Oslo apartments therefore absorb some of the demand that higher rates remove from larger homes.
Are small Oslo apartments overpriced compared with local incomes?
Yes. Compared with what ordinary earners can actually buy, small Oslo apartments are still very expensive.
Eiendom Norge’s Sykepleierindeks makes the affordability problem unusually easy to see. A single nurse could afford only 2.9% of homes sold in Oslo in 2025. In other words, roughly 97 out of every 100 transactions were financially out of reach for a buyer on that representative professional salary.
The first-time-buyer data tell a similar story over a much longer period. Norges Eiendomsmeglerforbund calculated that the average price paid by Oslo first-time buyers had increased around 163% since 2008, while general consumer prices rose only about 55%.
That gap is enormous. The average first-time buyer is not shopping for luxury housing, yet the entry price has risen roughly three times as much as the general price level over that period.
The fact that Oslo prices have barely risen this year has done little to repair the problem. A market can stop getting more expensive while remaining severely unaffordable.
| Affordability measure | Oslo result | What it tells us |
|---|---|---|
| Homes affordable to a single nurse in 2025 | 2.9% | Ownership is out of reach for most single earners |
| Average first-time purchase | Above NOK 5m | Entry-level housing is already expensive |
| First-buyer price increase since 2008 | ~163% | Long-run escalation has been huge |
| Consumer-price increase over the same period | ~55% | Housing has far outrun ordinary inflation |
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Do Oslo rents still support these high small-apartment prices?
Much more than they used to. Oslo rents have climbed fast enough that small apartments now look less overpriced against rental income than they did a few years ago.
Hybel’s advertised-rent data show an average of NOK 14,810 a month for a one-room Oslo apartment so far this year and NOK 19,324 for a two-room apartment. In 2022, the same averages were NOK 10,411 and NOK 14,266.
That works out to roughly 42% growth for studios and 35% for two-room apartments in about four years.
The latest month remains expensive too. Advertised one-room apartments averaged more than NOK 15,000, while two-room apartments were close to NOK 19,000.
Actual active rental contracts are cheaper than new advertisements, as we would expect. Hybel and Menon Economics put average active-contract rents in Oslo at NOK 11,834 for one-room homes and NOK 15,989 for two-room homes in the second quarter. Overall Oslo rents in that dataset were 5% above the previous year.
The direction is the important bit. Sale prices in Oslo have been almost flat lately while rents have continued rising. That has compressed the gap between what people pay to buy a small apartment and what the same housing can earn or save in rent.
This is one of the strongest reasons we would no longer describe every expensive Oslo studio as obviously overpriced.
What rental yield does a small Oslo apartment produce today?
A reasonably bought small Oslo apartment can now produce a gross yield around 4–5%, while aggressively priced micro-apartments can still fall into a much less attractive 3–4% range.
Take a 30 m² apartment priced at NOK 120,000 per m². The purchase price is NOK 3.6 million. At NOK 15,000 monthly rent, annual rent is NOK 180,000 and the gross yield is 5%.
Raise the purchase price to NOK 4.5 million while keeping the same rent and the gross yield drops to 4%. A bidding-war price of NOK 5 million would push it to only 3.6%.
Two-room apartments can sometimes work better. A NOK 5 million apartment rented for NOK 19,500 a month produces about 4.7% gross.
None of those figures are pure profit. Common charges, maintenance, vacancies, insurance, tax and transaction costs all eat into the return. Financing matters even more because new mortgages are currently around 5.3%.
For us, this gives a useful dividing line. A compact apartment around 4.5–5% gross yield can be expensive but still have a credible economic case in Oslo. Once the yield gets down near 3–3.5%, the buyer is paying heavily for expected appreciation, personal use or an exceptional location.
| Example | Purchase price | Monthly rent | Gross yield |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small flat bought well | NOK 3.60m | NOK 15,000 | 5.0% |
| More expensive studio | NOK 4.20m | NOK 15,000 | 4.3% |
| Aggressively priced studio | NOK 4.50m | NOK 15,000 | 4.0% |
| NOK 5m two-room | NOK 5.00m | NOK 19,500 | 4.7% |
| Expensive two-room | NOK 5.50m | NOK 19,500 | 4.3% |
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Why are Oslo landlords selling if small apartments are so valuable?
Because many small Oslo apartments no longer make good leveraged rental investments at today’s interest rates, even though owner-occupiers still want them.
Norges Eiendomsmeglerforbund estimates that roughly one in five investor-owned homes in Oslo has disappeared since 2019. Earlier research counted more than 16,000 rental homes lost from the investor segment, while the latest analysis shows both private secondary homes and company-owned rentals down roughly 20% from their respective peaks.
That is a huge change for one city. High interest rates, tax pressure and rising operating costs have made the numbers increasingly unattractive for landlords.
Suppose an apartment earns a 4% gross rental yield while a new mortgage costs around 5.3%. The landlord starts with negative leverage before paying common charges, maintenance, tax or dealing with vacancies. That can still work with little debt, but it is uncomfortable for a highly leveraged investor.
Owner-occupiers calculate the same apartment differently. They also receive somewhere to live, avoid paying rent elsewhere and repay principal into their own property. This explains why former rental homes can still find buyers even after landlords decide the return is too weak.
The landlord sell-off tells us something fairly precise about valuation: many small Oslo apartments are currently too expensive to be compelling leveraged investments. It does not automatically mean they are overpriced for someone planning to live there.
There is an awkward side effect too. When a landlord sells a studio to an owner-occupier, Oslo gains one owner-occupied home but loses one rental home. That helps suppress sale prices while tightening the rental market.
| Oslo investor-market change | Direction | Effect on sale market | Effect on rental market |
|---|---|---|---|
| Private secondary homes since 2019 | Down sharply | More resale supply | Fewer rentals |
| Company-owned rental homes | Down sharply | More homes can move to owner-occupiers | Professional stock shrinks |
| Interest costs | High | Encourages investor selling | Makes remaining rentals costlier |
| Result | Ownership transfer | Softer sale prices | Stronger rent pressure |
Do small-apartment buyers in Oslo finally have room to negotiate?
Yes. Buyers currently have more leverage than they have had during hotter Oslo markets, and overpaying simply because an apartment is small makes little sense now.
The latest Eiendom Norge data still describe Oslo as a market with unusually large resale supply. OBOS says high supply is holding back price growth, and its recent transaction numbers are weak: sales were 12% lower than a year earlier and 17% below the ten-year average for the same month.
The fall in OBOS pre-emption use from 30.6% to 18.9% reinforces that picture. Buyers have more alternatives and less reason to panic.
This does not mean every 30 m² apartment suddenly comes with a discount. A good flat around Grünerløkka, Majorstuen, St. Hanshaugen, Torshov or another highly liquid area can still attract several buyers. The cheap end of the market remains crowded.
The difference these days is that weak properties can no longer hide as easily behind general scarcity. A ground-floor studio with poor light, high common debt, traffic outside and awkward furniture placement deserves a discount. If ten similar alternatives are already listed, paying a huge premium is very hard to defend.
For buyers, that is probably the biggest practical change in Oslo right now: scarcity still exists, but it is much more selective.
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Will Oslo’s housing shortage keep small apartments expensive?
Probably. Oslo is still producing too little new housing to make compact apartments plentiful, and the latest construction numbers are weak.
Oslo municipality issued start permits covering 558 homes in the first quarter, down from 844 a year earlier. Permits allowing completed homes to be occupied fell from 623 to 469.
The municipality linked the decline to fewer applications for new housing as the market weakened. Developers face expensive land, construction costs and financing, while buyers are struggling with mortgage rates above 5%. Projects become harder to launch.
This creates an awkward cycle. High rates cool demand today, which suppresses housing construction. A few years later, the projects that were never started show up as missing supply.
Small apartments are especially exposed because Oslo continues to attract people who need relatively little space but want access to jobs, universities, nightlife and public transport. One-person households, young professionals, students with family financing, separating couples and newcomers often end up chasing the same type of home.
We would therefore be very cautious about betting on a permanent collapse in Oslo’s small-apartment prices. Individual apartments can fall, particularly when someone overpaid. The broader supply picture still makes cheap compact housing difficult to produce.
Could buyers avoid Oslo’s small-apartment premium by moving farther out?
Yes, and this puts a real ceiling on what central Oslo studios can cost.
Someone considering a 30–35 m² apartment at NOK 4.5 million can often buy significantly more space in outer Oslo or in commuter markets such as Lørenskog, Lillestrøm and parts of Bærum.
The affordability gap is already obvious in Eiendom Norge’s Sykepleierindeks. A single nurse could afford only 2.9% of Oslo homes in 2025, compared with 21.4% on Romerike. That is not a small difference. Entire categories of housing reopen once the buyer crosses the municipal boundary.
Location still has real value. Living centrally can eliminate a commute and provide easier access to work, restaurants, friends and public transport. Plenty of buyers will willingly exchange space for that convenience.
But every premium has a limit. If a 30 m² Oslo studio costs almost as much as a proper two-bedroom home near a fast train into the city, more buyers start choosing the second option.
That substitution is one reason we should be skeptical whenever people argue that central small apartments can simply keep rising regardless of income. At some price, the buyer moves.
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Which small Oslo apartments look genuinely overpriced now?
Small Oslo apartments look genuinely overpriced when buyers pay an extreme scarcity premium for a property that is neither scarce in quality nor strong enough financially to justify the price.
The first warning sign is a very low implied rent yield. If a studio sells at a price that would produce only around 3–3.5% gross rent while mortgages cost more than 5%, the valuation already requires optimism.
The second is poor resale quality. Tiny apartments with bad light, ground-floor exposure, heavy traffic, strange layouts, high common charges or large common debt have fewer reasons to command an exceptional m² price.
Bidding wars can make this worse. The cheapest attractive apartment on Finn may attract dozens of buyers who all have roughly the same NOK 4 million financing limit. Once the bidding starts, they compete with each other rather than with the value of larger apartments they cannot finance anyway.
The Fagerborg studio that sold around NOK 196,000 per m² showed how far this can go. The property needed renovation, yet intense competition pushed the final price about 19% above asking. The exceptional m² price came largely from its unusually low total entry price.
New-build micro-apartments deserve scrutiny as well. Developers already face high construction and land costs, so new units can carry both a new-build premium and a small-unit premium. Buyers need to ask whether a future resale buyer will willingly pay both again.
A good 35 m² apartment at NOK 130,000 per m² can therefore be better value than a bad 25 m² apartment at NOK 110,000. The headline m² number alone tells us surprisingly little.
Is a two-room Oslo apartment safer than a tiny studio?
Usually, yes. A functional two-room Oslo apartment around 35–50 m² has a much broader pool of future buyers and renters than an extreme micro-studio.
A studio works best for one person willing to live and sleep in the same room. A proper one-bedroom apartment can serve a single buyer, a couple, a student, a young professional, a downsizer, a temporary city resident or a landlord.
Current rents show that tenants value that extra flexibility. Hybel’s advertised averages are around NOK 14,800 for one-room apartments and NOK 19,300 for two-room apartments this year. Tenants are paying roughly NOK 4,500 more per month for the extra room and additional space.
The purchase-price difference can sometimes be surprisingly small because studios carry such aggressive m² premiums. If adding NOK 500,000 or NOK 700,000 turns a cramped 27 m² studio into a functional 40 m² one-bedroom flat, the larger apartment may be the better long-term purchase even though it costs more.
We would pay particular attention to that incremental price. The cheapest total-price apartment is not automatically the cheapest apartment to own for ten years.
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Are small apartments in Oslo still overpriced today?
Yes, partly. Small Oslo apartments are still clearly overpriced relative to ordinary incomes and expensive mortgage financing, but the evidence no longer supports calling the whole segment wildly overpriced.
The affordability case against current prices remains strong. A single nurse could afford only 2.9% of Oslo homes in 2025. First-time buyers are paying more than NOK 5 million on average, and their purchase prices have risen roughly 163% since 2008 compared with about 55% general inflation. New mortgages are still around 5.3%.
At the same time, several things have moved in buyers’ favor. Oslo has the weakest price growth among Norway’s major markets so far this year. OBOS resale prices remain 1.4% below a year ago. Supply is high, transaction activity is subdued, and buyers are using pre-emption rights much less often. These are hardly boom conditions.
Rents tell a different story. Advertised Oslo studio rents have risen roughly 42% since 2022 and two-room rents around 35%. Thousands of investor-owned homes have left the rental sector, while new construction remains weak. That gives genuinely good small apartments much stronger economic support than their eye-watering price-per-square-metre figures suggest.
So we would draw the line apartment by apartment. A good compact home in a liquid Oslo location, bought at a price equivalent to roughly a 4.5–5% gross rental yield and without ugly common costs or debt, can be expensive without being badly overpriced.
A tiny flat bought after a bidding war at an extreme m² price, with a 3–3.5% implied yield and obvious compromises, is much easier to call overpriced today.
The broad small-apartment premium is therefore still real, but the excess has narrowed. Oslo buyers should be far less worried about paying a high price per square metre than about paying a high price for a mediocre apartment simply because it sits inside their mortgage limit.
OUR METHODOLOGY
This analysis tests whether small apartments in Oslo are still overpriced by breaking the question into several independent dimensions rather than relying on one price chart or one price-per-square-metre comparison. We look at the small-unit premium, what buyers can actually finance, affordability relative to incomes, current resale conditions, rents and implied yields, investor behaviour, housing supply, and the alternatives available outside the most expensive parts of Oslo.
We prioritized recent market evidence and direct data from the institutions closest to the underlying information, then cross-checked the direction of those indicators. Longer-term data were used where they help distinguish a structural feature of the Oslo market from a temporary market move.
Price per square metre is treated as one valuation signal, not as a standalone definition of overpricing. Small apartments can carry extreme m² prices because their total purchase price still falls inside the financing range of many more buyers. Conversely, a lower m² price does not make a flat attractive if rent support, financing economics, common charges, common debt or resale quality are weak.
We also keep different market measures separate where they answer different questions. OBOS data give a high-frequency view of a substantial share of Oslo’s used-home market; Eiendom Norge and Eiendomsverdi are used for broader market and affordability context; Statistics Norway and Finanstilsynet anchor mortgage rates and lending constraints; Hybel and Menon Economics are used for advertised and active-contract rents; and Oslo Municipality is used for current housing-start and occupancy-permit data.
Gross rental yield is used as a simple valuation cross-check rather than a mechanical fair-value rule. It helps show how much economic support a purchase price receives from the rent the same type of home can command, especially when compared with mortgage rates above 5% and the costs that sit on top of financing.
The final judgment is based on where the evidence converges. We give more weight to conclusions supported at the same time by affordability, financing, transactions, rents, investor behaviour and supply than to conclusions that depend on one unusually high sale or one monthly price move.
Key sources used for this analysis include: OBOS on August 2026 Oslo resale prices, OBOS housing-price statistics, OBOS on the effect of small-apartment sales on average square-metre prices, Eiendom Norge’s housing-price statistics, Eiendom Norge and Eiendomsverdi’s Sykepleierindeks 2025, Norges Eiendomsmeglerforbund on first-time-buyer price growth, Norges Eiendomsmeglerforbund on 2025 first-time buyers, Finanstilsynet’s 2025 mortgage survey, Finanstilsynet on first-time buyers, Finanstilsynet on current lending-rule thresholds, the Norwegian Ministry of Finance on the lower equity requirement, Statistics Norway on mortgage interest rates, Hybel’s Oslo advertised-rent statistics, Hybel and Menon Economics on active rental contracts, Norges Eiendomsmeglerforbund on the decline in investor-owned Oslo housing, Norges Eiendomsmeglerforbund on rental homes leaving the investor segment, Oslo Municipality on first-quarter 2026 housing starts and occupancy permits, and Finansavisen on the Fagerborg micro-apartment bidding war.
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