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Property management expenditure remains steady
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2015-06-19T08:00:00.000Z
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The statistics give a detailed overview of the municipalities; property management. It shows how much gross area the municipalities; buildings are made of, and the cost of maintaining the buildings.

Property management, local government, 2014

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Property management expenditure remains steady

The net operating expenditure of the municipal properties has remained stable over the last 3 years and constituted about 8.5 per cent of the municipalities’ total net gross expenditure. The county authorities’ net operating expenditure constituted about 5.3 per cent of its total net expenditure.

Property management in municipalities and the county authoritiesPublished 19 June 2015
 201220132014Change in per cent 2013-2014
1The account for cleaning activities was new from 2013.
Municipalities and municipality enterprises    
Gross area, m2    
Total area objective buildings23 888 42724 316 75424 793 7522.0
Total area objective builings hired by the municipality1 427 4981 384 0521 668 78420.3
Expenditure, property management, NOK 1000    
Net operating expenditure, property management21 124 94622 088 29223 090 3094.5
Adjusted gross operating expenditure, property management22 158 62723 054 34524 015 8004.2
Expenditure, operating work11 512 39611 592 27011 946 0393.1
Expenditures, cleaning activity, property management1..2 795 8123 244 23716.0
Energy expenditures, property management2 625 4352 712 3182 455 257-9.5
Expenditure, maintenance work1 840 8972 118 2312 138 0000.9
Gross investment expenditures, property management17 752 17319 861 14621 674 1289.1
     
County authorities and county authority enterprises    
Gross area, m2    
Total area objective buildings4 549 2854 634 2604 670 9270.8
Total area objective buildings hired by the county authorities302 429366 398324 559-11.4
Expenditure, property management, NOK 1000    
Net operating expenditure, property management4 293 1164 414 3204 723 3257.0
Adjusted gross operating expenditure, property management4 444 0084 603 1884 938 6927.3
Expenditure, operating work2 181 5382 131 8112 247 5985.4
Corrected gross expenditures county authority property management cleaning activity1..385 391469 25621.8
Energy expenditures, property management444 989432 232388 701-10.1
Expenditure, maintenance work379 940458 094420 384-8.2
Gross investment expenditures, county authority property management3 829 6784 887 2704 815 577-1.5

Source: Statistics Norway

Net operating expenses for the municipalities’ property space was just over NOK 23 billion in 2014, whiles the county authorities’ net operating expenses totalled about NOK 4.7 billion.

The municipalities’ buildings occupied about 24.8 million square metres, while the county authorities’ buildings occupied about 4.7 million square metres. The total rented space constituted about 2 million square metres. The local government, which consists of municipalities, county authorities and their companies, owned and managed about 93.2 per cent of the local government buildings.

New indicators for the cleaning activities

In 2013, wages for maintenance were introduced in the annual reports for the local government (KOSTRA). These new indicators were published in the property management fact sheets in 2014. Expenses for the cleaning activities in the municipalities were NOK 2.8 million in 2013 compared to NOK 3.2 million in 2014. The expenditure per square metre was NOK 122 in 2013, and increased to NOK 140 in 2014. The county authorities’ cleaning expenses in 2014 were NOK 469 million, and the cleaning cost per square metre was NOK 108.

Energy expenditure fluctuates

The energy expenditure for the municipalities decreased from NOK 2.7 billion in 2013 to NOK 2.5 in 2014, while the county authorities’ energy expenses decreased from NOK 432 billion in 2013 to NOK 389 in 2014. This reduction is as a result of the reduction in energy prices and a reduction in the use of energy.

School buildings have the largest gross area

Of the six municipality buildings that have reported their gross area, the schools occupied more square metres. In 2014, the municipality school buildings occupied 11.4 million square metres, equivalent to 19.1 square metres per pupil. The nursing and care institutional buildings comprised of 5.3 million square metres and accounted for the second largest occupied area. The municipalities also had 2.2 million square metres in administration buildings, and kindergartens accounted for 1.8 million square metres.

The county authorities occupied 4.4 million square metres in school buildings, which corresponded to 24.4 square metres per student attending upper secondary schools. The administration buildings of the county authorities had approximately 245 000 square metres.

For more detailed data on property management for municipalities and county authorities refer to the KOSTRA fact sheets.

What do the statistics cover?Open and readClose

The gross area mentioned in the article does not comprise of all the total buildings in the local sector. The statistics comprise of the following buildings; administrational buildings, kindergartens, school buildings, institutional buildings for health care services, sports and cultural centres.

Method for estimating national key figuresOpen and readClose

Due to the fact that not all municipalities have reported their gross area, the total figures for all the municipalities are therefore based on estimations.

The estimated key figures are estimated based on figures from municipalities that have reported data to KOSTRA (Municipality-State-Reporting). The method is based on the assumption that there is a correlation between the variables in the key figures and the number of inhabitants in each municipality. The municipalities are divided into groups according to similarity and this is applied in the model. Next, variables for municipalities that have not reported data to KOSTRA are estimated.