Hi guys. My wife and I are moving to Stockholm in order to study at KTH. I'll be doing my PhD and my wife will be doing her MS and we are both in the IT/CS/software industries. I'll be quitting my full time job as a senior security engineer and my wife will be moving from full-time to only 10-15 hours per week while doing her MS. My income will be ~30000 SEK/month and my wife's income (working remotely as a consultant) will be around 20000 SEK/month, for a combined 50000 or so each month which isn't too bad to live on in Stockholm, especially as students!
We have around 400000 SEK to put on a down payment on a one bedroom apartment (I guess this is considered a "2 room" apartment in Sweden, according to hemnet.se at least) and since the minimum down payment is 15% that means we can at most spend around 2.5 million SEK on an apartment, but we are trying to stay closer to the 2-2.3 million range if possible. Of course, we also want to live in a somewhat safe neighborhood. We don't have kids and aren't planning on having kids at least until 5 years from now so schools are not as much of a concern, just the safety of the neighborhood.
From the "invandring" section of this forum it seems like a lot of Stockholm's suburbs have guaranteed rape and muggings at gunpoint each and every time you leave your home, though this seems like somewhat of a hyperbole to me, especially as someone who has lived and studied in the US. That said, we would definitely prefer a safer neighborhood!
So we are looking for a bostadsrätt apartment with one bedroom (50-80 square meters preferably) in a safe neighborhood within a 30-45 minute commute with the SL train/bus system to KTH. I've been doing some research and it seems like good candidates include places like Sollentuna, Täby (NOT the centrum area but some of the other areas are affordable) and Upplands Väsby. Jakobsberg has low prices as well but I have seen online that it can be somewhat of an unsafe area depending on where in the kommun you live.
My ideal living area would be in Stockholm city limits like Kungsholmen or Södermalm but those places are way too expensive. Who the hell can even afford these places on Swedish salaries??? 3.5 million SEK for a 25 square meter apartment (studio, not even one bedroom!!) is just insane to me. Seriously I have no idea how people even afford to live there.
Realistically though, Hägersten/Liljeholmen area seems pretty awesome since there are a lot of tech companies there and Gullmarsplan/Årsta area seems nice as well since they are both in close proximity to the city and KTH, but 2.5 million seems like the low end for a one bedroom place there so I would need to get lucky. The only brightside is that I will be buying in June when the Swedish market is slower since it is during the summer.
In the end, I would like to stay as close to the city as possible so I am within close proximity to the school but also so I can socialize and grab some beers are some cool bars whenever I would like.
I would definitely love some recommendations if you guys have any!
We have around 400000 SEK to put on a down payment on a one bedroom apartment (I guess this is considered a "2 room" apartment in Sweden, according to hemnet.se at least) and since the minimum down payment is 15% that means we can at most spend around 2.5 million SEK on an apartment, but we are trying to stay closer to the 2-2.3 million range if possible. Of course, we also want to live in a somewhat safe neighborhood. We don't have kids and aren't planning on having kids at least until 5 years from now so schools are not as much of a concern, just the safety of the neighborhood.
From the "invandring" section of this forum it seems like a lot of Stockholm's suburbs have guaranteed rape and muggings at gunpoint each and every time you leave your home, though this seems like somewhat of a hyperbole to me, especially as someone who has lived and studied in the US. That said, we would definitely prefer a safer neighborhood!
So we are looking for a bostadsrätt apartment with one bedroom (50-80 square meters preferably) in a safe neighborhood within a 30-45 minute commute with the SL train/bus system to KTH. I've been doing some research and it seems like good candidates include places like Sollentuna, Täby (NOT the centrum area but some of the other areas are affordable) and Upplands Väsby. Jakobsberg has low prices as well but I have seen online that it can be somewhat of an unsafe area depending on where in the kommun you live.
My ideal living area would be in Stockholm city limits like Kungsholmen or Södermalm but those places are way too expensive. Who the hell can even afford these places on Swedish salaries??? 3.5 million SEK for a 25 square meter apartment (studio, not even one bedroom!!) is just insane to me. Seriously I have no idea how people even afford to live there.
Realistically though, Hägersten/Liljeholmen area seems pretty awesome since there are a lot of tech companies there and Gullmarsplan/Årsta area seems nice as well since they are both in close proximity to the city and KTH, but 2.5 million seems like the low end for a one bedroom place there so I would need to get lucky. The only brightside is that I will be buying in June when the Swedish market is slower since it is during the summer.
In the end, I would like to stay as close to the city as possible so I am within close proximity to the school but also so I can socialize and grab some beers are some cool bars whenever I would like.
I would definitely love some recommendations if you guys have any!
