Home watch
A home watch is a saved search profile that's automatically matched against new listings — instead of you searching manually over and over. Set up what you're looking for once, and get a daily summary of the homes that match, including upcoming listings not yet published openly. You can turn notifications off whenever you like.
Describe what you're looking for
Set area, price range, size and the criteria that matter to you — both must-haves and preferences.
Automatic matching every day
SökHem goes through the market every night and matches your profile against new and upcoming listings, including ones sold directly by private sellers outside Hemnet.
One daily summary
The homes that matched your watch are collected in a daily email or push notification, scored by how well they fit your profile.
Nearly everyone looking for a home in Sweden uses some form of watch: a saved search that tells you when something new appears, instead of you re-running the same search every day. But the services differ more than you'd think — both in what they watch and in when you hear about it.
The most important difference is coverage. A portal watch only sees what's advertised on that portal. A broker chain's watch only sees the chain's own properties — but often before they're publicly listed. A matching service instead starts from your profile and looks across several sources at once.
The second difference is timing. Most homes are effectively for sale for a while before the listing goes live — at the broker as 'upcoming', or with a seller who hasn't chosen a route yet. A watch that only sees published listings tells you when the bidding is already underway; one that reaches upcoming and private sales gives you the head start.
If you also want to follow what homes actually sell for, that's statistics rather than a watch — see our price-per-square-metre statistics by municipality, updated daily.
These are the four types of home watch available in Sweden today, and what each is best for.
Saved searches on Sweden's largest listing portal. You're notified when new listings matching your search are published on Hemnet. The largest inventory of published listings — but you hear about it once the listing is live and everyone else sees it too.
Best for: not missing anything that's publicly listed.
Booli aggregates listings from several sources and also offers watches on sold prices and value trends for areas and individual addresses. Great statistical depth — but the watch still starts from what's already published.
Best for: following sold prices and price trends.
Fastighetsbyrån, Erik Olsson, MOHV, Länsförsäkringar and most other chains let you register as a prospective buyer. You can then hear about the chain's own upcoming properties before they're listed. The catch: each watch only covers that chain's inventory, so broad coverage means registering with many.
Best for: early access to one specific chain's upcoming properties.
A matching profile rather than a saved search: describe what you're looking for once, and the profile is matched every day against homes from several sources — including upcoming properties and private sales outside the portals. Sellers with a matching home can also find you. Free, no commitment.
Best for: broad coverage in one daily feed, including upcoming properties.
SökHem
Classic portal watch
A home watch is a saved search profile with your criteria — area, price, size and similar — that's automatically matched against new homes as they become available. No manual searching every day; you're notified when something matches.
No, creating and keeping a home watch on SökHem is completely free, with no commitment.
Matching runs every day. New hits are collected in a daily summary sent by email or push, instead of you waiting on a weekly newsletter. If you'd rather not be notified at all, you can turn notifications off in settings.
Yes, you can create several watches with different areas, price ranges and criteria and manage them all in one place.
Hemnet's watch notifies you when new listings matching your saved search are published on Hemnet. SökHem's watch is a matching profile covering several sources — including homes not yet listed, like upcoming properties and private sales — and it also makes you visible to sellers looking for a buyer like you.
SökHem's watch focuses on matching you with homes that are, or are about to be, for sale. For sold prices and trends, see our daily price-per-square-metre statistics by municipality under Statistics.
Upcoming homes are ones a broker is preparing for sale but hasn't listed publicly yet. Off-market sales happen without any public listing at all — for example directly between a seller and an already-interested buyer. Both are only reachable by watches that see more than published listings.
