Hei!

I came up with a weird question here 🙂

When I rented my flat, it was 8500 NOK and I am paying internet and electricity. I think it is too much for 25 square meter home but we are living at a small area. In this month, due to inflation rate, my rent increased to 8750 NOK.

When I searched home on [finn.no](https://finn.no), I saw other flats in my apartment, 25 m2 too, the owner holding dropped the prices to 7500.

If I want to discount on my rent, will it be weird? Or is it acceptable?

Thanks for supportive comments for this weird guy 🙂

7 comments

  1. Are you sure they’re completely the same?

    There are many differences that could amount to 1000nok in rent.

    Maybe ask if you can move to one of the 7500 ones?

  2. Pretty sure the two flats aren’t the same. Your rent should be regulated in the contract, so your landlord can’t just nilly willy charge you more rent out of the blue.

    You might be able to tget the rent back to the old price, but I have my doubts they will drop it by a whole 1000NOK, if it’s the same landlord, you might be able to move to a cheaper flat, but keep in mind, that they probably are cheaper for a reason.

    And depending on where you live, that’s not even that much for a flat that size. I’ve lived in places for10k NOK/month for a 21sqm flat plus bills on top.

    Welcome to Norway, it’s expensive.

  3. If the other apartments are in the same building you can try to negotiate, but the owner has no obligation to lower the rent. If you threaten to leave you’ll have to be prepared to go through with it.

  4. It’s OK to ask, but it’s also OK for the landlord to simply say no.

    To have any form of leverage you must be prepared to leave your apartment if you don’t get a better price, or at least be able to convince the landlord that you are.

  5. There is probably something somewhat justifying the 1000 NOK difference, so just ask.

    Newer kitchen for example.

  6. A good dialog with the owner is probably your best option..

    But

    There is something called «gjengs leie» In Norwegian law. This means that if you feel that the price is to high compared to similar properties you can request “Gjengs leie”. If you don’t agree on a price, a third party will set the price in accordance with the law. You can only request this after you have lived there for 2,5 years.

  7. I would fidn it weird I rent out an apartment, I follow the influction or whatever its called in English. IF the market says I can rent 20 50 for so and so that is what I will do. Most likely it is because of sun, positioning etc. There is always a reason to why the rent

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