Placepoint in numbers
This is the scope of the data behind Placepoint, checked against our sources. The numbers below are the same ones used elsewhere in the documentation. The datasets they build on, and where you find them at the source, are listed on Data and sources, with one page per provider.
Property, companies and ownership in Norway
| Number | What it counts |
|---|---|
| 3.5 million matrikkelenheter | All matrikkelenheter in Norway, with buildings, addresses and Grunnboken data. Source: Kartverket |
| 1.1 million active companies | Norwegian main entities in Brønnøysundregistrene (BRREG) |
| 850,000 sub-entities | Departments and business locations under the main entities. Source: Brønnøysundregistrene (BRREG) |
| 2.9 million including dissolved entities | All Norwegian entities, including those that have been deleted |
| Over 14 million registered owners and rights holders | Natural and legal persons in Grunnboken, including historical ones. The register contains no national identity numbers. Source: Kartverket |
| Over 30 million ownership links | Links between company, owner and property, including shareholdings, group structures and property companies |
| 5.3 million links between company addresses and properties | Which companies are located on which property |
| Around 240,000 registered changes of ownership per year | Property transactions registered with Kartverket, figures for 2025. Company sales come in addition |
The registers change all the time. In addition to the changes of ownership, there are 300,000 address changes and close to two million changes to company details every year. How often each dataset is updated is described on Data and sources.
Municipal cases in Norway
| Number | What it counts |
|---|---|
| Over 330 municipalities | Municipalities we collect public postal lists from. Those with and without are drawn into Coverage Map Case Access |
| Over 20 million recorded documents | Documents from these postal lists, read into Case Access per property. It counts documents, not cases: one case can have several hundred |
| Around 20,000 documents | What a typical municipality contributes |
| Over 5 million recorded documents | Oslo alone, by far the largest municipality |
The archive depth varies more than the volume. The oldest documents are from 2000, and around thirty municipalities reach back to before 2010, but in most municipalities the archive starts in 2020 or later.
Map layers
| Number | What it counts |
|---|---|
| Around 2,500 sub-layers | Individual layers you can switch on and off separately. All are listed on Data and sources |
| Around 190 map services | The services the layers come from, including Norges vassdrags- og energidirektorat (NVE), Norges geologiske undersøkelse (NGU), Miljødirektoratet, DIBK, Geodata AS and Placepoint |
| Around 320 main map layers in 18 categories | The catalogue in Placepoint Fusion, totalled per category |
| 220 unique layers | Each map layer counted once. The total above is higher because a layer can sit in several categories |
A main map layer is what you switch on in the catalogue. Many main map layers consist of several sub-layers, for example the vertical levels in a zoning plan.
Customers and users
More than 950 customers in Norway and Sweden and over 6,500 professional users use Placepoint. You can see who they are at placepoint.no/kunder.
Sweden
Placepoint bought Combify in July 2026 and covers Swedish property through them.
| Number | What it counts |
|---|---|
| 4.2 million fastigheter | Full coverage in all 290 municipalities |
| Over 620,000 municipal cases | Total cases analysed |
| Over 500,000 bygglov | Part of the 620,000 |
| Close to 120,000 detaljplaner | Part of the 620,000 |
| More than 100 terabytes of case documents | The basis for the case analyses |
The property data is updated weekly. The municipalities issue around 70,000 bygglov per year, and the platform takes in around 1,500 data updates per day. The sources are Lantmäteriet, Boverket, Bolagsverket, SCB, Metria and the municipalities.
The transaction volume in Sweden is close to the Norwegian one. Lantmäteriet granted around 130,000 lagfarter in 2025, according to SCB: Fastighetspriser och lagfarter. A lagfart is the Swedish counterpart to registered title, and the figure includes inheritance, gifts and exchanges in the same way as the Norwegian changes of ownership. A bostadsrätt is a share in an association and not a fastighet, so the sale gives no lagfart and is counted separately: over 100,000 bostadsrätter sold in 2025. We show who is registered as the owner today, while the transfer history sits with Lantmäteriet.