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# Removal of rent control and impact on search and mismatching costs: evidence from Oslo (July 2017)

* **The removal of rent control and its impact on search and mismatching costs: evidence from Oslo**
* By Are Oust. Published online on the International Journal of Housing Policy on 20 July 2017
* <https://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2017.1336876>
* **Abstract**:
  * The removal of the Norwegian rent control in 1982 created a natural experiment that enabled us to investigate whether rent control affected the search and matching process in the private residential rental market in the Norwegian capital, Oslo.
  * We collected and analysed data on ‘housing for rent’, ‘housing wanted’ and ‘housing exchange-wanted’ advertisements in Oslo covering a period from 1970 to 2008.
  * We concluded that the use of newspaper listing services by potential tenants and landlords changed after the rent control removal.
  * **Our results indicate that it is more costly, in time and money, for a potential tenant to search for and to find a home under rent control**.
  * Moreover, **our results indicate that rent control increases the probability of and the distance from the ideal dwelling, in size, standard and location**, a potential tenant have to settle for.
* **Keywords**: rent control, tenants, Oslo, Norway