Does the chain "subdivision - purchase - building permit" work properly in Sweden?
Vaskovich, Marina
In Sweden as in other countries worldwide people are constantly looking for place for living and housing demand is very keen. The Government seeks to solve this problem in the most efficient way, i. e. to build more houses for lesser resources with the highest possible involvement of private entrepreneurs into the processes. The Government is eager to provide citizens with knowledge and tools allowing them to accomplish this task with minor assistance from the state. It is to ask which steps ought to be undertaken by people in order to get own place for living? Are those steps in Sweden complicated or customer-friendly? Which additional mechanisms shall be developed to reduce transaction costs? This paper presents some results of the Swedish national on-going project Home Building Guidee (Bygga Villa1 in Swedish) aimed at creating E-government services in the processes of purchasing, planning, building, and living in home. This project has merged several national governmental authorities, business companies and universities into a consortium with aim to develop one e-entrance to all information and other e-services related to those processes. The aim of this paper is to elucidate three specific property related processes that are now in operation in Sweden, namely property subdivision, property purchase and getting a building permit. The paper describes each of three processes separately and identifies their main activities and stakeholders involved as a background for research questions stated in the final part of this paper. Descriptions are followed by evaluation and concluding remarks outlining research questions. The processes are graphically represented on activity diagrams.
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