Hagastaden is a trophy-tier Class A submarket of Stockholm with average asking rent around SEK 8,500/sqm/yr · ≈ $74.2 PSF/yr USD.
New life sciences and tech trophy frontier. · Tier: trophy · Avg rent: SEK 8,500/sqm/yr · ≈ $74.2 PSF/yr USD
Hagastaden — between Stockholm and Solna — is the principal new trophy frontier. Life sciences (Karolinska adjacency), tech (Skanska anchor), and biotech form the demand cluster.
Life sciences, biotech, tech, healthcare, R&D.
15–40,000 sqft floor plates available across newer Class A stock; 9'+ slab-to-slab and modern MEP common.
Hagastaden / Karolinska (T-bana Yellow Line, opened 2025).
Multi-modal transit captures the metro's principal professional catchment.
Karolinska Institute, Norra Stationsparken.
Hagastaden is one of 5 Class A submarkets we cover in Stockholm, classified as trophy tier with an average asking rent around SEK 8,500/sqm/yr · ≈ $74.2 PSF/yr USD. Compared with the broader Stockholm Class A stock, Hagastaden typically attracts Life sciences, biotech, tech, healthcare, R&D and competes most directly with the city's other trophy submarkets on building specification, transit access, and amenitisation.
Adjacent submarkets to study alongside Hagastaden: Norrmalm (CBD), Östermalm, Solna (Arenastaden & Frösunda), Kista Science City. The full Stockholm submarket atlas is at /cities/stockholm.
For an institutional Class A occupier evaluating Hagastaden, the highest-leverage analyses to commission next are the rent benchmark, the concession-package comparable, and the ESG performance baseline. Class A Atlas covers each as a dedicated topic page for this submarket:
Terminology specific to Stockholm Class A leasing and to the trophy tier: Class A, Trophy asset, Effective rent, Concession package, TI allowance, Submarket tier.
Reviewed by Samuel Okafor — EMEA contributing editor. Last updated 2026-04-15. See our methodology and editorial standards.