“…Second homes are rather common in the Nordic countries, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark but also in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the Czech Republic, South Africa, Canada, the United States, and Australia, [2,3]. During the 1960s, 1970s and the early 1980s, second home construction boomed and added cottages to locations on the urban outskirts all over the Nordic countries [4,5,3,6,7]. The majority of second homes in Sweden, Norway, and Finland, between 80 and 90 per cent, were purpose-built.…”