Foreign workers rent illegal apartments supplied by employers
Foreigners who come to Iceland to work often live in sub-par, if not dangerous, conditions, says Halldór Oddsson, union lawyer for The Icelandic Confe...
Iceland property prices increased fastest in Europe last year
Property prices in Iceland increased faster last year than in any other European country surveyed. The increase in par value of houses was higher even...
Icelandic pension funds to build rental homes in Reykjavik?
A working group within the Icelandic national association of pension funds has come to the conclusion that it is not worthwhile for the funds to inves...
Icelandic mortgage provider in European spotlight
The supervisory arm of the EFTA, the ESA, has given Icelandic authorities a six-week deadline to implement changes to the public sector Housing Financ...
Strong recovery in Icelandic housing market
Many more properties were sold in the Reykjavik region last month than in April last year. According to new figures from Statistics Iceland, the numbe...
New York Times on trail of Icelandic real estate bargains
According to a New York Times article, foreign investors are profiting from good house buying deals in Iceland because of the property market depressi...
Battered Icelandic housing market shows signs of life
Turnover of properties in Iceland increased by 16 percent last year compared to 2009 and there were a quarter more purchase agreements signed. However...
Icelandic government outlines household debt relief plans
The Icelandic government today signed a declaration of intent with the country’s pension funds and loan providers aimed at tackling the problems...