The Swedish residential rental system and market has been discussed and criticized diligently the past years. Therefore, a reformed rental law was implemented the 1st of January 2011, which has the purpose to better reflect the consumer s priorities with a more market related rental determination. With this change, it is of interest to compare it to another rental system, with market rents. In the German rental system, free rental setting is allowed in new leases. This thesis aims to compare and evaluate these residential rental systems. The comparison was done after reading several reports,...