2012-07-09bloomberg.com

Norway's Finance Minister Sigbjoern Johnsen is putting pressure on the country's banks to rein in mortgage lending to over-indebted households as the government grapples with the growing threat of a property bubble.

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Norway's housing market boom has seen property prices surge almost 30 percent since 2008, while the country's household debt burden will surpass 200 percent of disposable incomes next year, according to central bank estimates.



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