How to apply for student housing
Skövdebostäder’s student apartments are rented via a special student housing queue and only to persons admitted to the University of Skövde.
To be able to rent a student apartment you must be registered in our student housing queue and have a valid visa.
You can register by following this link: Registrera dig – AB Skövdebostäder
It´s free of charge to join our housing queue. After you clicked the link you can click on the globe symbol located on the right top edge, you can select English to make it easier for you to follow the steps and register in our student housing queue.
Please make sure that you have pressed that you are searching for student apartments (studentlägenheter). We recommend that you also register in our regular housing queue at the same time.
Below it is explained in detail and you will also find the answer to all your questions about paying the rent and security deposit.
Your queuing time starts the day you register, and you can register at any time. Each day in the housing queue earns you one point, for example, you will have earned 365 points after one year in the queue. There is no other way to earn more points. The points are personal and cannot be transferred or added to someone else’s points.
You must update your profile once a year to keep your place in the queue. This is true for both student queue and the regular queue. To do this, log in to My Pages (Mina sidor), open Student Registration, check the data and save. Do the same for the other queue if you are registered in both.
- Go to My pages (Mina sidor) to register and manage your housing application.
- Then you must create an account. Press ”Do not have an account? Register here!” (Har du inte ett konto? Registrera dig här!).
- Then, select ”I want to apply for student housing” (Jag vill registrera mig som sökande).
- If you have a Swedish personal identity number, use that number, YYYYMMDD-xxxx. If you do not have a Swedish personal identity number, fill in the year you were born, month and date, YYYYMMDD, for example 20010119 for someone born January 19th, 2001. Press the link below the form that says “klicka här” and four letters will be added to your date. This combination will only work when you log in at Skövdebostäder. Please write it down so you will remember it.
- Press “Registrera dig” and fill in the form.
a) Förnamn=First name, Efternamn=Surname, Adress=Your current address/street, Postnummer=Postal code, Ort=City/Town
b) You need to fill in one of the phonenumber boxes. Most common is the box for mobile. Dagtid=daytime, Kvällstid=evening, Mobiltelefon=cellphone/mobile
c) E-post=e-mail. You need to fill this out twice.
d) Choose a password and add it to the box marked “Lösenord”. Your password should be at least 8 characters and contain a CAPITAL letter, a lower-case letter and a number.
e) The checkbox is that you verify that you have read and understood our data protection policy and that you agree to us having your information in our system.
- Press the green button that says “Next” (Nästa)
- The next page is information about your income and current living situation.
a) Inkomst/Arbete – At the moment you have to fill in something in the field of Annual income, the rest is optional. Årsinkomst=Annual income.
b) The last thing you have to do is pick which ones of our queues you want to register for. Lägenhet=our regular housing queue, Studentlägenhet=the student housing queue, Förråd=a queue to rent extra storage. The next is a description for the Student housing choice.
- Press the green button that says “Next” (Nästa).
- Fill in the form for Student housing.
a) Antal vuxna=Number of adults, Antal barn=Number of children
b) Önskemål=what you want. What you write here helps the system suggesting apartments that meet your criteras. Max hyra=the highest rent you wish to pay, Min rum=the minimum amount of rooms, Max rum=the maximum amount of rooms.
c) Områden=Areas. Choose the areas you would like the system to suggest if there is an available apartment meeting your ciriteras.
d) The checkbox lets you create an e-mail alert (subscription) for apartments meeting your criteras.
- Press the green button that says “Next” (Nästa)
- The following page is a summary of your information. Read it through use the button Tillbaka=back if there is something you want to change. If everything is correct press the green button that says “complete” (Slutför)
- You are now registered in the student housing queue. You have to apply for the specific student apartments that you want to apply for. Good luck!
Subject to availability, student apartments that fall vacant are generally advertised once a week on our website. Please note that there may be weeks when no student apartments are advertised. If you create an email alert, you will be informed as soon as apartments of your liking are advertised.
The apartment ads are found if you click Sök ledigt and Student. Available student apartments.
The apartments are advertised from Friday to Monday on our website. During this time, you can register your interest in all the advertised student apartments of your liking. The apartments are posted on the website, but you will need to log in to My pages to be able to apply. Once logged in you can return to the website to apply for them or apply within the interface of My pages. You can also indicate the order in which you prefer these apartments.
When the registration period for these specific student apartments has closed we start to send offers, normally on Tuesdays. If you have the longest queuing time, you will get an offer for the student apartment you put as your first preference. You can only get one offer at a time. This is generally sent by email but can also be viewed on My Pages. If you refuse this offer, you will not get a new offer this time around. Therefore, only register your interest in the apartments of your liking.
You generally have two days to either accept or reject the offer. The easiest way is via My Pages. If you reject the offer or do not respond in time, the offer will go to the person next in the queue. Remember that responding in time primarily is your own responsibility.
Skövdebostäder recommends that you regularly log in to My Pages to register your interest in any advertised apartments or respond to offers.
If you fail to respond to offers on three occasions, you will be barred from the opportunity to register your interest in new apartments for 6 months.
You may not sign and hold a student housing contract with Skövdebostäder without a current letter of admission to the University of Skövde. If you have applied to the university but have not yet been accepted, you may not sign a contract.
When you sign a contract, your queuing time will be set to zero. And you cannot apply for new housing with Skövdebostäder within six months from the start date of your contract.
It is your responsibility to terminate your contract once you have completed your studies without being instructed to do so by Skövdebostäder. The notice period is three whole months. You can confirm the termination with Bank-ID on our website or fill out a form. If you need the form, please contact our customer service.
If you are interested in staying in Skövde after completed studies, we recommend that you register in our ordinary housing queue when you register in the student housing queue. You can register at any time, and it is free of charge.
We can’t guarantee that we can offer you an accommodation when you arrive, since we have a waiting time for approximately 6 months to 1 year, though it can be shorter during the spring semester. Therefore, I recommend that you search for apartments in more places while you apply for ours.
At the website of the Municipality of Skövde you can find a list with different companies that rent out apartments. You can try to contact them to see if they have anything available.
Questions about the apartments
Registering in the queue can be done as early as possible but to show your interest in a specific student apartment can be done when you have received your admission notification from the University of Skövde. If you live outside the EU, you must also have obtained an approved visa to sign a contract with us. If you haven’t received an approved decision yet, you must wait until you are approved before you can show interest in our student apartments and possibly sign a contract.
No, our apartments are unfurnished. You have to buy all the necessities that you need, for example a bed, a desk and kitchen tools such as spatula and pots and pans. However, in the Swedish standard of apartments, kitchen appliances – such as cabinets and fridge, are included.
Our recommendation is that you have one room per person living in the apartment.
To sign a contract with us you must have been admitted to the University in Skövde of at least 15 credits, have a valid visa if you live in a country outside of the EU and pay a three month security deposit.
We will email your contract so you can sign it with a pincode that you will receive as a text message to your cellphone. If you haven’t received the pincode, you can check your spam because sometimes our text messages and emails can end up there. It’s very important that your correct phone number is registered on Mina Sidor, your country code must be included otherwise the text message will not be delivered to you.
Security deposit and paying the rent
We will keep your security deposit during the entire contract period, you can’t use it for rental payments.
The security deposit will be used for example if you have not taken care of the apartment and we need to renovate or hire a cleaning company after you have moved out. If water and electricity is not included in the rent and we charge monthly, the security deposit can cover the consumption for the last month.
We cannot not receive payment at all from the countries that are on the EU Sanctions Map. This may be due to different reasons, such as war or other serious issues.
If we can’t accept payments from your country, we can’t offer you a contract to sign with us.
The three months security deposit must be paid within one week from when you have received the contract. If the security deposit isn’t paid, you won’t get the apartment, and the offer will go to another applicant.
Here is the information on how you make the payment:
Paying from a country outside of Sweden
Account holder name: AB Skövdebostäder
Account holder address: Box 303, 541 31 Skövde, Sweden
Name of the bank: Nordea
Bank SWIFT code: NDEASESS
Bank IBAN number: SE58 9500 0099 6034 2141 7209
Bank BBAN number: 9960 3421417209 (Use the BBAN number if the IBAN number doesn’t work in your country).
Leave a message with your name and the apartment’s last five digits in the item number of your apartment. Don’t forget that the bank may charge a fee for the payment, so you make sure to add that and pay it at the same time as you pay the rent.
No, we don’t email a specific confirmation that we have received the transfer.
The confirmation is when you receive the Move-in information, it can take a couple of days before we email the information.
You will be able to see the payment that you have made on My Pages (Mina Sidor) under Invoice under the period of one month after we have received the payment.
You will get your security deposit after you have moved out and the inspection has been completed and approved.
We will refund the remaining amount from the security deposit back to your bank account. It can take up to two months before we make the transfer. We will contact you for the necessary information for us to make the transfer.
The rent invoice will be sent to the email address registered on My Pages. Sometimes our emails end up in the spam, if you haven’t received the invoice between 15th – 20th each month please check your spam. You can also find your invoice on My Pages.
If you pay from a Swedish bank, you will find the payment information on your invoice. If you pay from a foreign bank or other online money transfer services, you need to have the following payment information:
Account holder name: AB Skövdebostäder
Account holder address: Box 303, 541 31 Skövde, Sweden
Name of the bank: Nordea
Bank SWIFT code: NDEASESS
Bank IBAN number: SE58 9500 0099 6034 2141 7209
Bank BBAN number: 9960 3421417209 (Use the BBAN number if the IBAN number doesn’t work in your country).
Leave a message with your name and the apartment’s last five digits in the item number of your apartment. Don’t forget that the bank may charge a fee for the payment, so you pay it at the same time as you pay the rent.
You can also pay your rent at our Rental Office during the opening hours. Kundcenter – opening hours
You always pay your rent in advance, before the month start. That means that the rent must be paid at the latest the last weekday before the contract starts. The security deposit will not cover your first rent.
If you pay with a foreign bank, it may take up to three business days for the transfer to reach our account. It can take up to a month before you can see it on My Pages under Invoice counting from the date that we have received the payment.
The rent invoice will be sent to the email address registered on My Pages. Sometimes our emails end up in the spam, if you haven’t received the invoice between 15th – 20th each month please check your spam. You can also find your invoice on My Pages.
No, we can only debit for one month at a time.
We charge for the electricity and water that you use if it’s not included in the rent. We read your electricity and water meter on a monthly basis. This consumption will be visible on your rent invoice. For example, if you move in on August 1st, the first charge will appear on the invoice for October.
According to the Swedish Tenancy Act, the ordinary move-in day is the first weekday of each month. If the first of a month is a Saturday, Sunday or a holiday, the following weekday is counted as the move-in day. The apartment is available from 14.00 on the move-in day.
Keep in mind that we don’t work nights and weekends, if you plan to arrive on a weekend, contact the district caretaker a couple of days before your arrival so you two can make an agreement on how you can collect the keys.
Moving in and moving out
According to the Swedish Tenancy Act, the ordinary move-in day is the first weekday of each month. If the first of a month is a Saturday, Sunday or a holiday, the following weekday is counted as the move-in day. The apartment is available from 14.00 on the move-in day.
Keep in mind that we don’t work nights and weekends, if you plan to arrive on a weekend, contact the district caretaker a couple of days before your arrival so you two can make an agreement on how you can collect the keys.
The easiest way to give your notice is on My Pages at our website. Regardless of whether you have a Swedish personal identification number or not, you can terminate your contract on the website.
You have three months’ notice on your student apartment, you may wish to get out of the lease earlier but there is no guarantee. For example, if you terminate your contract in March, you will have a notice period until 1st of July. If the new tenant chooses to move in on the earlier date of your request, then we will contact you. If you don’t hear anything from us, that means that the new tenant has chosen to move in on the later date.
Here’s how it works when you give your notice.
- Log in to Mina Sidor and click on Kontraktsuppsägning.
- You can choose to sign your notice of termination with bank-id or with a pin code. Click on the arrow under Identifieringstyp and choose one of the options.
- If you wish to get rid of the apartment earlier, click on Godkänner tidigare avflytt and choose the date.
- Please check that the contact details are correct and then click on E-postadressen och mobilnumret är korrekt.
- Click on Skicka uppsägning, you will receive an email where you must verify yourself with bank-id or with a pin code that you will receive as a text message.
After you have completed all the steps and the cancellation is completed, you will receive a confirmation to your email.
Your apartment will be inspected by your district caretaker when you move out. Before the inspection, the apartment must be empty and completely cleaned. If the apartment is not properly cleaned or in case of abnormal wear/damage, you may be liable. Make sure all equipment belonging to the apartment is in place.
All keys must be returned to your district caretaker no later than 12 o’clock noon of the intended relocation day, normally the first weekday of the month. If that day is a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday, the following weekday is the effective relocation day.
Skövdebostäder reserves the right to change the management of the student housing queue over time.