Housing

Buildings and free-time residences

	1980	1990	2000	2010	2015	2016	2017
	Thousand
Residential buildings	840	1 005	1 111	1 235	1 283	1 290	1 294
Detached houses	773	908	993	1 102	1 144	1 150	1 152
Attached houses	23	53	66	76	80	81	81
Blocks of flats	44	45	52	57	59	60	61
Other buildings	92	158	189	211	222	222	229
Free-time residences	252	368	451	489	502	503	507
Saunas 1)	548	932	1 212	1 502	1 607	1 631	1 651

¹⁾ Only saunas in flats. The total number of saunas was estimated to be over two millions at the end of 2017.

Source: Statistics Finland, Dwellings and housing conditions

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Updated: 31.5.2018

Household-dwelling units, 2017

A household-dwelling unit consists of all persons occupying the same dwelling on a permanent basis

Size of household- dwelling unit	All buildings	Detached houses	Attached houses	Blocks of flats	Other buildings
1 person	1 162 308	242 376	162 763	730 195	26 974
2 persons	880 794	415 064	117 566	336 699	11 465
3 persons	281 143	153 169	41 688	82 998	3 288
4 persons	231 604	152 521	32 049	45 076	1 958
5 persons	85 445	62 590	8 634	13 408	813
6+ persons	38 783	29 204	2 681	6 208	690
Total	2 680 077	1 054 924	365 381	1 214 584	45 188

Source: Statistics Finland, Dwellings and housing conditions

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Updated: 14.12.2018

Dwellings

	1990	2000	2010	2016	2017
Total number of dwellings, thousand	2 210	2 512	2 808	2 968	3 003
Owner-occupied dwelling, %	66,8	58,1	59,2	57,3	56,8
Rented dwelling 1), %	24,7	30,8	29,3	2) 31,2	2) 31,7
Right of occupancy dwelling, %	. .	1,0	1,3	1,5	1,5
Other form of tenure or unknown, %	8,4	10,1	10,3	10,0	9,9
Floor area per dwelling, m2	74,4	76,5	79,5	79,9	79,8
Floor area per person, m2	31,4	35,3	39,1	40,3	40,5
Overcrowding 3), %	30,4	23,7	17,9	17,4	17,2

¹⁾ Incl. official residences and employer-provided dwellings

²⁾ Incl. empty dwellings in buildings inferred as rental buildings

³⁾ More than one person per room, excl. kitchen

Source: Statistics Finland, Dwellings and housing conditions 

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Updated: 14.12.2018

Prices of dwellings in blocks of flats ¹⁾

	Old dwellings		New dwellings
	Helsinki region	Rest of Finland	Helsinki region	Rest of Finland
	Unencumbered average prices, €/m2
2010	3 142	1 492	4 346	2 853
2011	3 255	1 536	4 554	2 960
2012	3 353	1 561	5 003	3 140
2013	3 458	1 580	4 974	3 215
2014	3 478	1 578	5 102	3 373
2015	3 515	1 587	5 122	3 403
2016	3 584	1 579	4 980	3 520
2017	3 718	1 588	5 071	3 536
2018	*3 875	*1 599	5 179	3 664

¹⁾ Data on old dwellings based on the Tax Administration's data, data on new dwellings based on the largest real estate agents and building contractors.

* preliminary data

Source: Statistics Finland, Prices of dwellings in housing companies

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Updated: 1.2.2019

Dwellings in old blocks of flats: real price indices

* preliminary data

Source: Statistics Finland, Prices of dwellings in housing companies

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Updated: 1.2.2019

Prices of real estate

	Detached houses			Plots for detached houses
	Average price	Nominal price index	Real price index	Average price	Nominal price index	Real price index
	€/m2	2015 = 100		€/m2	2015 = 100
2015	1 541	100,0	100,0	18,6	100,0	100,0
2016	1 549	100,1	99,8	21,2	98,1	97,8
2017	1 560	98,8	97,7	22,7	97,9	96,9

Source: Statistics Finland, Real estate prices

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Updated: 13.3.2018

Average rents of rented dwellings

	Government-subsidised dwellings	Non-subsidised dwellings	All rented dwellings
	€/m2/month
1990	3,91	4,33	4,14
2000	6,39	7,67	7,10
2001	6,64	7,99	7,42
2002	6,92	8,21	7,66
2003	7,16	8,50	7,94
2004	7,37	8,60	8,07
2005	7,54	8,81	8,27
2006	7,68	8,93	8,37
2007	7,96	9,35	8,72
2008	8,38	9,73	9,04
2009	8,93	10,07	9,48
2010	9,28	10,40	9,86
2011	9,90	11,54	10,79
2012	10,25	11,98	11,19
2013	10,64	12,43	11,61
2014	10,96	12,84	11,98
2015	11,21	13,30	12,34
2016	11,38	13,65	12,61
2017	11,53	13,88	12,80

Source: Statistics Finland, Rents of dwellings

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Updated: 13.3.2018

 

Main topic: Housing

Last updated 1 Feb 2019