Apartment prices accelerated at the end of the year, but apartment sales picked up

The old ones in the last quarter of 2025, the prices of shared apartments fell by 3.3 percent in the whole country from the previous year. The issue is clear from Statistics Finland’s latest from statistics.

In December, the drop in prices was the fastest of the whole year, 4.5 percent.

In December, the price of old shared apartments fell the most in Turku, by 8.2 percent, and in Vantaa, by 5.3 percent. Apartment prices in the capital region decreased by 4.3 percent from a year ago.

Of the big cities, prices rose only in Oulu, even there by only 0.1 percent.

“Although the decline in prices accelerated in December, in 2025 the decline in prices slowed down compared to the previous two years”, Chief Actuary of the Statistics Finland Anu Rämö says in the announcement.

Housing trade was clearly more lively in December than the previous year. 14 percent more sales of old apartments and townhouses were made through real estate agents than a year earlier. During the entire year 2025, about 13 percent more deals were made than the previous year, Statistics Finland says.

Instead, the sale of new shared apartments slowed down even more. In the last quarter of the year, new share apartments were sold 42 percent less than a year earlier.

Correction 19.2. at 9:28 am: In the title of the story, it was previously erroneously stated that the prices of apartments in Turku fell by more than eight percent in December. They became cheaper in December by more than eight percent compared to the previous year.