The Oslo Stock Exchange hovered at near standstill on Tuesday, with the main index climbing 0.04 percent in the first half hour of trading.
The main index was up by 474,06 points by mid-morning.
Four of ten of Norway's most-traded companies started the day off on the plus side.
Subsea 7 rose by 2.27 percent, Rec by 2.23, TGS-NOPEC by 1,87) while Aker Solutions, which on Monday announced a new deal with a UK partner, rose by 0.78 percent.
Statoil, meanwhile, was down by 0.24 percent, DNB by 0.17, Seadrill by 1.12, Telenor by 0.41, Yara International by 0.58 and Marine Harvest by 0.24 at the start of the day.
The cost of renting in Norway's four largest cities rose overall during the third quarter, with prices up six percent this year, figures from Real Estate Norway show.
A sharp increase in rent prices in Norway continued throughout the third quarter, figures from Real Estate Norway (Eiendom Norge) released on Tuesday show.
“Real Estate Norway’s rental housing price statistics show a historically strong rise in rental housing prices in Norway in the third quarter,” Henning Lauridsen, CEO of Real Estate Norway, stated in a report on the latest figures.
Growth was most robust in Stavanger and Oslo, according to Real Estate Norway.
“The strong growth in rental prices we have seen in the wake of the pandemic continued in the third quarter, and it is particularly in the Stavanger region and in Oslo that the growth in rental prices is strong,” Lauridsen said.
Stavanger and nearby Sandnes saw the largest price increases, with the cost of renting there increasing by 4.7 percent during the third quarter. During the same period, rents in Oslo increased by 2.5 percent, while a marginal 0.3 percent rise was recorded in Trondheim.
While the cost of renting in Norway’s four largest cities overall increased by 2 percent, rental prices in Bergen declined. There, rents fell by 2.5 percent in the third quarter.
Lauridsen said that the increase in rental prices was likely to continue due to several factors. High inflation, interest rates, increased taxes on rental properties and a low supply of homes on the market all contributed to increasing rents.
However, he did note that the supply of rental homes on the market had increased in Trondheim and Oslo since the summer.
Lauridsen said that the least well-off financially were being hit hardest by rent rises. Previously, the Norwegian government has informed The Local that it will not introduce a temporary cap on rent increases.
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