Bojakt brings together available rental homes and helps you monitor a market in which queues, requirements and selection processes vary.
The Swedish rental market is not organised through a single shared queueing system. Available homes are advertised by marketplaces, housing companies and private landlords, while the conditions for applying may vary. The linked sources are in Swedish because they concern Swedish law.
Bojakt’s role is to bring the listings together in one place and monitor them based on what you are looking for. The service currently includes 20,352 available homes in 1,237 locations. The supply is a snapshot and changes as listings are published, updated or removed.
From scattered listings to a monitoring service
The monitoring service uses listings published by different landlords and compares them with the preferences you have provided. These may include location, property type, size and rent.
Available homes are collected from marketplaces, housing companies and private landlords.
The information in each listing is compared with the criteria in your monitoring settings.
When a listing matches, you receive information about the home and can check the landlord’s full terms and conditions.
Bojakt helps you discover homes. The landlord always receives the application, assesses the applicants and decides who is offered the contract.
Time in a queue is only one of several selection principles
There is no uniform system for applying for rental housing in Sweden. According to current official information on housing allocation, property owners and housing companies have considerable freedom to decide how available homes are allocated and which letting conditions apply.
Selection may be based on time in a queue, application time, matching or other principles. The landlord may also check matters such as income, ability to pay and references. At the same time, the requirements must comply with discrimination legislation, as explained in the authorities’ guidance on selection in the rental market.
No queue does not mean no requirements
Bojakt’s current listings include 4,928 first-hand homes with no queueing time. This means that a long accumulated queueing time is not a condition for these particular listings. It does not mean that the home has no other requirements or that an application automatically leads to a contract.
You should therefore always read how the selection process works. A home offered without a queue may still be allocated following an overall assessment, matching against the landlord’s conditions or the order in which approved applications were received.
First-hand and second-hand rentals require different checks
First-hand contracts account for 44% of the current supply. Second-hand rentals account for 56%, corresponding to 11,331 listings. The monitoring service may therefore include both types of contract, but they should be assessed differently.
For a second-hand rental, you need to check who is letting the property, which home the contract covers, what is included in the rent and whether the letting has the necessary approval. For a rented property, approval from the landlord or permission from hyresnämnden (the Rent Tribunal) is normally required. Read more in the official guidance on second-hand rentals.
The rent must also be reasonable. The applicable rules depend partly on whether the home is a rented property or a privately owned property. You should therefore not assume that an advertised rent is automatically correct; check the contract and what is included.
The rent provides a guide, not a promise
The median rent among the homes in Bojakt’s database is SEK 9,200. This does not mean that a particular home or location is at that level. The location, size, standard, type of contract and what is included all affect the rent in an individual listing.
You should therefore not set the maximum rent in your monitoring settings based solely on the median. Base it on your own finances and allow for costs such as electricity, insurance, internet, travel and any additional charges.
How to use the monitoring service more effectively
Select several locations or areas if you are willing to commute or move a little further away.
Distinguish between preferences and absolute requirements so that relevant homes are not filtered out unnecessarily.
Prepare documentation concerning your finances, employment and references for when the landlord requests it.
Always check the conditions, contract and landlord’s identity before paying anything.
Update your monitoring settings when your budget, moving plans or preferred location changes.
The monitoring service finds opportunities but does not allocate contracts
Bojakt makes a fragmented listings market easier to follow. However, the service does not replace housing queues, landlords’ own requirements or your own checks of a listing. Treat the monitoring service as a way to discover more relevant homes and as information that helps you decide which ones you want to apply for.
