Norwegian Condition Report: TG0 to TG3, and the 10,000 Kroner Rule

Every bathroom in the report carries TG2. The agent calls that normal for the age.

Since 2022 Norway's regulation to the Property Sale Act, forskrift til avhendingslova defines four condition grades for each inspected part: TG0 for no deviations, TG1 for minor, TG2 for significant and TG3 for major or serious ones. The report may be no older than a year, and a buyer is deemed to know what it states.

What do the grades mean in law?

Section 2-23 of the regulation sets the words. Tilstandsgrad 0 is given when the building part has no deviations: it must be nearly new, show no signs of wear, and come with documentation of professionally sound work. Tilstandsgrad 1 is given for minor deviations, where the part shows only normal wear and immediate measures are not considered necessary. Tilstandsgrad 2 is given for significant deviations, where the part has faulty workmanship, damage or symptoms of damage, heavy wear or reduced function, and needs maintenance or measures in the near future. Tilstandsgrad 3 is given for major or serious deviations, where the part shows strong symptoms of conditions that must be expected to need remediation immediately or within a short time, and it is also used where functional failure or collapse is established.

The grade is therefore a legal category, not the surveyor's mood. A TG2 on a 1990s bathroom means the regulation's own test for significant deviation was met.

What must the surveyor inspect?

The parts the regulation names. Chapter 2 sets minimum requirements for the report: section 2-2 covers wet rooms, section 2-9 the roof, section 2-16 drainage and section 2-18 the electrical installation, and section 2-20 requires the floor area to be measured under the standard NS 3940:2023. Section 1-6 states that the report may not be older than one year.

The list matters because a report that skips a named part is not a report under the regulation, and because the parts that most often carry TG3 in a Norwegian home, the wet rooms and the drainage, are exactly the ones the regulation forces into view.

Why can the seller no longer sell "as is"?

The 2022 rules took the clause away in consumer sales. Section 3-9 of the Property Sale Act, avhendingslova, states that in a consumer purchase a "som han er" reservation and similar general reservations have no effect. In their place stand two duties that point at the report. Section 3-10 provides that the buyer is deemed to know the circumstances that appear clearly from a condition report or other sales documents the buyer was given the opportunity to read. Section 3-1 provides that the buyer must cover losses and costs from defects up to 10,000 kroner.

Read together, the three sections say what a TG3 is worth. A defect described in the report is yours; you knew it. A defect that is not in the report is the seller's, above the first 10,000 kroner.

What does that mean for your bid?

That the report is the contract's price list. A TG3 bathroom that the report describes cannot later be claimed as a hidden defect, so its cost belongs in the bid. A wet room that the surveyor could not inspect, and says so, is a different case, and the regulation's minimum requirements are the checklist for spotting what the report does not cover.

We do not give buying advice. What the act and the regulation support is this: the grades have fixed legal meanings, the report must cover wet rooms, roof, drainage and electrics and be under a year old, and what it says clearly becomes your knowledge with a 10,000 kroner deductible on everything else. AiMYNDi reads the tilstandsrapport with the sales prospectus and puts every TG2 and TG3 next to the price. An example of what a report looks like shows the layout. Norwegians also looking across the border will find the guide to buying in Sweden as a Norwegian covers the other system.