Dictionary of property, zoning and buildings

The dictionary brings together terms from Norwegian property, zoning and building applications: what the matrikkel is, what BYA and BRA mean, how a dispensasjon (planning exemption) is processed, what Grunnboken is, and much else you meet as a developer, broker, adviser or manager. Each entry starts with a short definition and builds out with the legal basis, registers and datasets, and links on to authoritative sources such as Lovdata, Kartverket, NIBIO, NVE and DiBK. If you are looking for a specific dataset rather than a term, go to Data and sources. Use the search at the top or browse alphabetically below.

The dictionary also covers Swedish property. We bought Combify in July 2026, and if you work with Sweden, you meet a different set of terms than the Norwegian one: fastighet instead of matrikkelenhet, detaljplan instead of reguleringsplan, bygglov instead of byggetillatelse, and lagfart where we register hjemmel. The Swedish entries sit in the same alphabetical list as the Norwegian ones, with Swedish spelling. Each of them says what the Norwegian counterpart is and, more importantly, where the comparison stops holding: a detaljplan has a genomförandetid that no reguleringsplan has, a bostadsrätt is not a borettslag, and byggrätt is something other than utnyttelsesgrad. The sources behind the figures are listed under Data and sources, among them Lantmäteriet and Boverket.

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