Find housing
As a new student, the housing situation in Lund can feel hopeless. Many students choose to live in residence, outside of Lund or alternatively for one or a few semesters. Since Lund is a good cycling city, you don't have to live in the center to easily get back and forth from your home. The important thing to think about is to join the housing queue as soon as possible, in order to have a chance of owning your own accommodation in Lund.
AF Housing
The AF Bostäder Foundation is one of Sweden's largest student housing companies and owns 6200 apartments in central Lund with space for approximately 8000 Lund students. At AF Bostäder, you can have classic student accommodation in a corridor, find home in a one-room apartment, or share a larger apartment with friends or a partner.
It is free to stand in AF Bostäder's housing queue, but you must be a member of Studentlund and the Academic Association, and conduct active studies at Lund University. To help new Lund students find accommodation, a number of accommodation places are reserved before the start of each semester. These are drawn in the novice lottery, in which newly admitted students can apply on the same day as the admission notice is received.
AF Bostäder is part of the AF family and is run with the aim of working for the best interests of students. As a tenant, you have a landlord available if you need help with something in your accommodation. For other questions, there is a Service Center, which you can contact via telephone, chat and email. There is also the students' own representative – the Housing Ombudsman (bomben). You can contact the bomb if you have more general questions, comments or suggestions for improvement.
Read more and join the housing queue on AF Bostäder's website: www.afbostader.se
Email your question or request to Bomben: bomben@afbostader.se.
Stay at Nation
All of Studentlunds nations have housing in their nation houses in the form of corridor rooms and apartments. Living at the nation is a fun and social way to live, especially if you are interested in getting involved in the life of the nation!
The easiest way to get housing varies from nation to nation, but many nations give committed members in the form of workers, foremen and officials priority in their housing queues. Some nations also give novices the opportunity to get priority in the housing queue.
Contact Studentlunds nations for more information about their housing options!
BoPoolen.nu
BoPoolen is a housing agency run by Lund University Student Union (LUS). Via the website www.BoPoolen.nu, private individuals can advertise for the rental of apartments, rooms and sofas. It is free to advertise, and BoPoolen has no queue system or fees.
BoPoolen's goal is to help students at Lund University find housing by helping them find ads from landlords for short or long-term rentals. To ensure the quality of the ads, they are reviewed before publication. Inappropriate ads or unreasonable terms are not accepted. Safety and safe accommodation is a priority for BoPoolen.
On the website you will also find useful information about rental agreements, laws and regulations for subletting as well as BoPoolen's contract proposal in Swedish and English. These contract proposals facilitate agreements between tenant and landlord.
If you have any questions or need help with advertising or rental law issues, you are welcome to contact BoPoolen via email BoPoolen@lus.lu.se or telephone 0704-56 11 87. More information can also be found at bopoolen.nu.
Civil registration, housing allowance and home insurance
When you have found somewhere to live, it is important that you register, i.e. register yourself, there. This is so that you can apply for housing allowance, which you can only do in the municipality where you are registered. Change of address takes place via the Tax Agency in the form of a notification of a change in the national register when you move. The Swedish Tax Agency has no such cooperation with any private company and according to law, it is only to the Swedish Tax Agency that you can report a change of address in the population register. It's also free! Enter into www.skatteverket.se/studentflytt where it says about national registration for students.
Changing the civil registration is done fastest and easiest via the Swedish Tax Agency's e-service on the website. Swedish address change offers a paid service for time-limited forwarding. This service is not mandatory.
Do you want to be seen in a place that brings together the entire student life in Lund in one and the same place? Then you've come to the right place!
