FAQ in swedish
1. When will the Stockholms Stads Bostadsförmedling (Stockholm Housing Service) start allocating Svenska Bostäder’s student flats?
Stockholms Stads Bostadsförmedling will take over allocation of Svenska Bostäder’s student flats and Svenska Bostäder’s queue is being discontinued. Around the beginning of the year (2010), you cannot register for it any longer.
2. If I want to keep my queue time from Svenska Bostäder’s student queue, what do I have to do?
To keep your queue time from Svenska Bostäder’s student queue, you must register with Stockholm Stads Bostadsförmedling. You must do this by 1 March 2010. You must also pay the annual fee of 250 kronor to Bostadsförmedling. If you already are in Bostadsförmedling queue, you don’t have to do anything in order to keep your queuing time from Svenska Bostäder. Your queue time in Svenska Bostäder´s queue will automatically be registered with Bostadsförmedling.
3. How does Bostadsförmedling know my Svenska Bostäder student queuing time?
Bostadsförmedling will get a list of all the people who have an active queuing time
in Svenska Bostäder’s student queue. Your queue time in Svenska Bostäder’s student queue will be counted from the day you registered with Svenska Bostäder. Your queuing time in Bostadsförmedling queue is counted from the day you register in Bostadsförmedling’s ordinary queue.
4. How much queuing time can I have built up in Svenska Bostäder’s student queue?
You can have up to two years in Svenska Bostäder’s student queue, counting from the date you first registered with their queue.
5. Can I lose my queue time in Svenska Bostäder´s student queue?
You are required to pay the annual fee to Bostadsförmedling even if you only intend to apply for flats with your queue time from Svenska Bostäder. You can have a maximum queuing time of 2 years in Svenska Bostäders queue, counted from the day you registered with Svenska Bostäder., after which you lose your place and can only apply for student flats that are allocated via Bostadsförmedling’s ordinary queue.
6. Can I begin applying for student flats immediately through Bostadsförmedling?
Yes, as soon as you have registered with Bostadsförmedling you begin to accumulate queuing time and can apply for available student flats. Currently, Bostadsförmedling primarily allocates Micasa’s student flats.
7. Can I register to search for both student flats that are reserved for Svenska Bostäder’s student queue and also those that are available for all the students in the Bostadsförmeding queue?
Yes, if have queue time in Svenska Bostäders student queue and registered with Bostadsförmedling before the beginning of march 2010, you can look for student flats both through the ordinary queue and through the queue that is reserved for those who were formerly in Svenska Bostäder’s student queue. You must be able to show that you meet the requirements of being a student in order to be approved as a tenant.
8. How many will be registered in the student queue?
Bostadsförmedling does not maintain a separate student queue, so it’s hard to say how many in the queue are students. You must be able to show that you meet the requirements of being a student in order to be approved as a tenant.
9. Who is considered a student?
In order to rent a student flat, you must show that you are studying at, or that you have received an acceptance letter to college, university or KY-education in the same region as the flat.
10. How will the new system work for me if I have a queue time in Svenska Bostäders queue?
If you choose to register with Bostadsförmedling queue, you will have two queuing times during an overlap period, one based on your queuing time at Svenska Bostäder, and one that counts from the day you register with Stockholms Stads Bostadsförmedling. In 2010, 80 percent of Svenska Bostäder’s available student flats will be earmarked for allocation to those who have built up queuing time with Svenska Bostäder. In 2011 that figure will be 50 percent. After that, Svenska Bostäder’s queue will be discontinued for allocation. All allocation of available student flats will thereafter go through Bostadsförmedling’s ordinary queue.
11. What are the benefits of Bostadsförmedling allocating Svenska Bostäder’s student flats?
This is a political decision. There is a desire to gather all student flats into a single marketplace. Instead of students having to sign up for several different housing queues for student flats, they get access to all student flats through a single queue. Moreover, the time spent queuing counts toward getting an ordinary flat in Stockholm when studies are completed. A common marketplace can also provide a clearer picture of demand and encourage more property developers to build new student flats.
12. Which other property managers provide student flats to Bostadsförmedling?
Currently Bostadsförmedling is primarily allocating student flats for Micasa. Besides Svenska Bostäder, Vasakronan intend to turn over student flat allocation to Bostadsförmedling. Bostadsförmedlingen will offer all property owners the opportunity to present their student flats within Bostadsförmedling marketplace.
13. If I am an international student or a free mover, how can I register for Bostadsförmedling queue if I don’t have a Swedish personal number?
You can register with Bostadsförmedling by giving information that the registrationform requires. After that, it’s easiest for you to apply for flats by logging in on Bostadsförmedling’s web-based service called Mina Sidor (My Pages). You must be able to show that you meet the requirements of being a student in order to be approved as a tenant.
14. How do I know what my place in the queue is when I apply for a particular student flat?
When you register your interest for a flat, you enter a special queue for just that flat, and you will see your preliminary place in the queue when you visit Bostadsförmedling’s web service called Mina Sidor.
15. What are the practical steps I need to take to apply for a student flat through Bostadsförmedling?
The easiest way to look for flats and apply for them is to use Bostadsförmedling’s web service called Mina Sidor. Every available student flat is listed often for one week. You have to actively apply for the flats you are interested in. If you are one of the applicants with the longest queuing times, you will be sent a message asking you to accept or decline the flat. If you have the longest queuing time of those who have accepted the offer, and if you fulfill the other student requirements, you will be offered the flat.
16. How many flats can I apply for at the same time?
You can have up to three active applications at the same time.
17. What happens to my queuing time at Svenska Bostäders student queue if I get a student flat?
You will lose your Svenska Bostäder queue time if you get a contract for a student flat using your queue time in Svenska Bostäders student queue.
18. What happens to my queuing time at Bostadsförmedling if I get a student flat?
Since a student flat counts as temporary housing, you maintain your queuing time at Bostadsförmedling if you get a contract for a student flat. This means that you can accumulate queuing time with Bostadsförmedling while you live in a student flat.
19. Does it cost anything to obtain a student flat through Bostadsförmedling?
Yes, besides the 250 kr per year that you pay to register in the housing queue, you pay an allocation fee if you obtain a student flat. The allocation fee is currently 1000 kr.
20. Why is there a fee?
Bostadsförmedling’s operations are user-financed on a non-profit basis, with no government subsidies. The queue registration fee is set by the Stockholm city council.