In Sweden the residential and commercial sector is a major user of energy, why the Swedish government has set a specific goal to half the energy usage in buildings by 2050, compared to 1995. The Swedish Energy Agency has therefore started the campaign “Halvera Mera” to encourage demonstration projects that will show how to renovate in an energy efficient way, and in doing so prove that it is possible to reduce a building’s energy usage by half and still make a profit. These projects are intended to serve as good examples and give inspiration to residential owners to perform energy efficient renovations. To make sure that these projects serve their purpose, it is important to know what will inspire and what will impede a residential owner to invest in energy efficiency improvements. This study is focused on determining which aspects influence the residential owners in their decision-making and whether the property ownership form has any impact on the energy efficiency work. By performing a survey within the project “Halvera Mera”, completed with a number of interviews, the aspects that influence residential owners’ decisions could be identified. The financial resources for, and the motive for investing in, energy efficiency improvements differ between the different forms of ownership. Conclusions could therefore be drawn that the form of the ownership has some impact on the working process and outcome. However, the decision making is also influenced by other aspects, such as local housing market and the property owners’ ambition with their business.

Bostadsbolag i Sverige kan vara kommunalt eller privat ägda och styrs utifrån olika lagarberoende på ägarform. Deras olika förutsättningar till värdeöverföring gör det intressant att undersöka skillnader mellan ägarform i bostadsbolag. Kommunala bostadsbolag ska finnas för att verka för allmännyttan samtidigt som de ska drivas under affärsmässiga principer. Syftet med studien är att jämföra kommunala och privata bostadsbolag när det kommer till deras redovisning av värdeöverföringar och investeringar. För att besvara studiens två frågor om hur det skiljer sig mellan kommunalt respektive privatägda bostadsbolag när det kommer till värdeöverföring och investering och hur redovisningen av värdeöverföring och investering kan tolkas utifrån intressenternas kontra ägarnas perspektiv, har en kvalitativinnehållsanalys valts som metod. Det insamlade materialet kommer vara både kvalitativ och kvantitativ data som hämtas från bostadsbolagens årsredovisningar. Resultatet visar på att kommunala och privata bostadsbolag investerar mer än vad de delar ut. Däremot delar kommunala bostadsbolag ut mer än vad de enligt lag får göra om undantagbortses. Vilket innebär att kommunala bostadsbolag använder sig utav undantagsregel för att få dela ut mer än vad som först är tillåtet. Både kommunala och privata bostadsbolag väljer att beskriva sin utdelning på liknande sätt hänfört till lag. Däremot vad gäller investeringar beskrivs det mer fritt vad de gör för investeringar och varför. Det varierar därför betydligt mer i hur de uttrycker sig kring investeringar än vad det gör med värdeöverföringar. Resultatet visar även att företagsledningar prioritera sina intressenter efter deras grad av kontroll på bolagets resurser. Detta uppmärksammas tydligast vid redovisning av investeringar eftersom bolagens olika sätt att beskriva dessa kan tyda på att de försöker tillgodose olika intressenter. Utifrån ägarperspektivet prioriteras utdelning i störst grad av de privata bolagen än det kommunala. Medan investeringar förespråkas av kommunala bostadsbolaget eftersom de har ett ska bidra till allmännyttan. De privata bostadsbolagen investerar mer om det anses vara ekonomiskt gynnsamt för ägarna i framtiden. / Housing companies in Sweden can be municipal or private owned and are regulated by different laws depending on ownership. Their different presumptions make it interesting to investigate the differences between ownership in housing companies. The municipal housing companies purpose is to work for the public good and simultaneously operate under business principles. The aim with this study is to compare municipal and private housing companies regarding their reporting of value transfers and investments. The study aims to answer the two questions: How do municipal and private owned housing companies differ in their value transfer and investments? How can the accounting of value transfers and investment be interpreted from the stakeholders versus the owners perspective? To answer the questions a qualitative content analysis has been chosen as a method. The collected data will be both qualitative and quantitative and will be retrieved from the housing companies annual reports. The results show that municipal and private housing companies invest more than they are transferring. However the municipal housing companies are also transferring more than they are able to according to the law, if exceptions are ignored. This means that municipal housing companies are using the exception rule to transfer more than what is allowed according to the main rule. Both municipal and private housing companies are describing their value transfers in a similar way with reference to law. On the contrary investments are usually described more openly about what kind of investments they are doing and why. Therefore, it varies considerably more in how they express themselves in terms of investments compared to value transfers. The results also show that company managements prioritize their stakeholders according to their degree of control over the company's resources. This is more clear when reporting investments, as the companies different ways of describing these may indicate that they try to satisfy different stakeholders. From the ownership perspective, dividends are prioritized more by the private companies than the municipal ones. While investments are advocated by the municipal housing company because they must contribute to the community. The private housing companies invest if it is considered to be financially for the owners in the future. This study is written in Swedish.