Report: Price statistics
The price statistics report brings together price level, price trend and sales volume for the area around a property in one document. The report is not finished, but everything it builds on is available today: the map layers for property prices and sales, and the analysis panels for market, business and time on market.
The report is on its way, the source data is here
The report brings together price level, price trend and sales volume for an area, based on the property you have open in the property panel. Until it is ready, you can pull the same figures yourself: the map layers under Pricing Info show property prices and sales per grunnkrets (the smallest statistical area used by SSB), Analyze gives you market activity, plot transactions, commercial transactions and commercial leasing as dots on the map, and Placepoint AI puts them together as text from a single prompt. It is the same data in all three cases; the difference is who writes the document.
Price level, price trend and the number of registered sales are register facts, and they appear on the map and in the analysis panels from the first click. A valuation of the individual property is not: that requires an inspection or a broker, and uses register prices as one of several inputs, not as the answer on its own. The rent in a specific lease and the price in a share sale of the company that owns the property are not in any register either; the first sits in the contract, the second is never registered.
See also: Analyse value and potential on placepoint.no.
A registered sale is not the same as a market price
Kartverket records every registered property transaction under one of several types, and only one of them says anything about the market. Free Sale is a negotiated deal between independent parties, and it is the only type that gives a real price indication. Inheritance and Estate settlement move the property to an heir or spouse without a price set in any market. Gift is a transfer without payment, most often within a family. Sectioning only changes how a property is divided legally, without a change of owner. Forced Sale is sold by the district court against the owner's will, and the sum is usually below what a voluntary bidding round would have given. Price statistics that mix these into the same average go wrong in a way that is hard to see: a couple of forced sales or a sectioning in the selection pull the average in opposite directions without the chart showing it.
The key cards and the histogram in this report therefore count only Free Sale, never the five others. If you want to count out the types yourself in a map layer, Latest sales (units of use) has its own filter for transaction type.
Who this is for
The broker who has to set a price, the bidder who has to document that the bid matches the market, and the analyst who writes the market section of an acquisition memo. The asset manager who tracks a portfolio against the market over time uses the same figures for something else: to see whether one area is moving faster or slower than the rest of the portfolio. The developer assessing a plot needs the same price picture from the opposite side: what finished homes in the area sell for, set against what the plot costs today.
The underlying data is the same wherever in the country the property lies: 3.5 million matrikkelenheter and around 240,000 registered changes of ownership a year. See Placepoint in numbers for the full overview.
The checklist
Five tracks cover what a price assessment needs, from the neighbours' sales to how the commercial market moves in the same area.
| Track | What to look for | Where in Placepoint |
|---|---|---|
| The neighbours' prices | What comparable properties in the area have sold for | Property prices, Transactions tab |
| Sales volume | How many deals have been done, and whether activity is high or low | Number of transactions, Latest sales |
| The market in motion | Whether prices are rising or falling, how long listings stay up, and whether plots are traded at all | Market Activity, Time on Market and Plot Transactions in Analyze |
| Business versus housing | What commercial premises sell and let for in the same area | Commercial Transaction and Commercial Leasing in Analyze |
| The price level in context | Whether the area sits above or below a chosen comparison area | The Housing price statistics and Price trend tabs in this report |
You switch map layers on from Map layer in the left menu. See How to use map layers if you have not done it before.
The neighbours' prices
The starting point for any price assessment is the same: what comparable properties nearby have sold for, and recently enough that it still matters.
Property prices puts the average price per grunnkrets on the map, taken from Geodata AS and their processing of registered sales. That gives you the level in the neighbourhood without opening a single property.
For the individual deal: click the property and open the Transactions tab in the property panel. It shows every registered transaction on that exact property, with date, type and price where it is public, alongside the share transactions. That is the check against the single sale a seller or broker points to, not just the area average.
Property prices shows an average per grunnkrets, not single sales. If you want to check one specific neighbouring transfer, use the Transactions tab on that property instead.
Sales volume
A price level without context can mislead you: a quiet area with two sales a year swings far more from quarter to quarter than one with two hundred.
Number of transactions (property) puts volume next to price, per grunnkrets. Laid over Property prices, it tells you whether a low average comes from a quiet market or from few deals in the selection.
Latest sales (units of use) shows every single sale of a home or holiday home in Matrikkelen over the past 12 months, down to NOK 100,000 as the lowest purchase sum, with a square metre price where one can be calculated.
The layer has its own filter for transaction type, so you can count out Inheritance, Estate settlement and the others and see only the free sales before you conclude that the market is quiet.
The market in motion
Today's price level is one number. Whether the market is on the way up, how fast homes sell, and whether plots are traded at all is something else, and that is the question a buyer or seller is really asking when they ask how the market is right now.
Market Activity in Analyze puts registered sales and listings in the same picture, filtered by housing type and time period, with price and price per m² in the chart. Set the time period to 2 yr for a more stable picture than the default window of 6 months.
Time on Market shows how long listings stay up before they disappear from the market, a temperature reading the price level alone does not give. Plot Transactions puts plots with a known building permit status next to it, and these deals are rare enough that few hits is the norm, not a signal that the market has stopped. Plot Valuation splits the same deals into freehold plot and leasehold plot, and gives a price per m² that is the starting point for a plot value before zoning and utilisation are taken into account.
The default period in Analyze is 6 months, which can give few dots in a quiet area. Pull Time Period to 2 yr or more before you read a conclusion out of the map.
Business versus housing
The housing price statistics in this report cover detached houses, apartments and the other housing types. They say nothing about what a commercial unit in the same block sells or lets for, and the two markets do not always move together.
Commercial Transaction in Analyze covers commercial property in 14 categories, from shop and office to warehouse and production, filtered by area and price.
Commercial leasing gives the same picture for the rental market, with rent per m² in the chart for the premises that are advertised with a price.
The map layer Real Estate Transactions in the Media picks up the larger, reported deals as well: commercial property and company sales covered in the press, not just what is registered.
Commercial Transaction and Commercial Leasing count listings and sales on market terms. An internal transfer within a group does not show up as a price here, the same distinction as between free sale and the other transaction types in the housing market.
The price level in context
An average figure on its own says little. What makes it usable is what you compare it with, and at which geographic level.
The Housing price statistics tab sets the selected area against a comparison area, by default the whole of Norway, with the price difference between the two in per cent. The Price trend tab puts the same over the map, coloured per grunnkrets or municipality, so you can see whether the trend is local or follows a larger pattern in the region.
Holiday homes are kept out of the comparison: the housing type filter covers detached houses, apartments and the other common housing types, and cabins and summer houses are a separate market segment that is not part of the average. If the property itself has registered sales as a holiday home, open it in the property panel and read them in the Transactions tab; there you see all registered sales regardless of building code.
A small area can become statistically unstable. Switch the comparison level from grunnkrets to municipality when the selection gets too thin to give a reliable average.
The report itself
The report opens as a panel from the report list on a selected property, with three tabs.
| Tab | Content |
|---|---|
| Housing price statistics | Average price per m², price difference and sales volume for the selected area against a comparison area |
| Price trend | Map with the price trend per m² per grunnkrets or municipality |
| Price analysis | Histogram of homes sold by price per m², with median and average |
Housing price statistics
The filters are housing type, new or resale home, geographic level (county, municipality, sub-area or grunnkrets) and comparison area, by default the whole of Norway.
Three key cards show the past 12 months side by side: the selected area on the left with average price per m² and the number of homes sold on the open market, the price difference in per cent in the middle, and the comparison area on the right. Below the cards, a combined bar and line chart shows sales and price per m² quarter by quarter for both areas, with date pickers that adjust the time interval.
Price trend
An interactive map colours the price trend per m² per grunnkrets or municipality, with the property's own location marked as a red pin. The same housing type and new/resale filters as in Housing price statistics apply here.
Price analysis
A histogram spreads homes sold across price per m² intervals for the selected place and year, with the median as a white dashed line and the average as a green one. A trend chart with a forecast for the average price trend sits below.
Build the report today with Placepoint AI
Placepoint AI has access to the same sources as the map layers and analysis panels above, and writes the document from a single prompt. See Examples and tips for more examples of how Claude builds a report from several sources at once. The prompt does not need to be longer than this:
Create a price statistics report for [matrikkel number or address]. Show
the average price per square metre and the price trend for the area, compared
with [municipality or the whole country]. Count the number of sales over the past 2 years, and
separate free sales from other transfer types. Show market activity,
time on market and plot transactions in the same period, and commercial sales and commercial leasing in
the area if relevant. State the source behind each figure.
If you are in the map, the Agent does the short lookup without you switching tools: "Fetch the latest property sales around this property and work out the average price per square metre" gives you the answer as text with links to the sources. The map moves to where the figures come from.
Related surfaces
- Property panel - the transactions for one property at a time.
- Analyze - the market analyses behind this report, interactive on the map.
- Pricing Info - the map layers for property prices and sales.
- Market and area analysis - the same market picture for an area you draw yourself instead of one property.
- Analyse value and potential - price assessment and utilisation together, applied to one plot.
- Report: Demographics - who lives and works in the same grunnkrets.
Data sources
- Registered sales and Matrikkelen via Kartverket.
- Property prices and the number of transactions per grunnkrets from Geodata AS.
- Company data behind commercial transactions and commercial leasing from Brønnøysundregistrene.