If an apartment has a new owner – for instance, you have bought or inherited an apartment or a part thereof – you need to apply for registration of your ownership within two months.

If you own an apartment in a housing company that has been transferred to the Residential and Commercial Property Information System, you have ten years to register your ownership with the National Land Survey of Finland.

Start by reading our interactive instructions to see how the registration of ownership should be handled in your case.

Here’s what to do before you come to visit a service point

• Complete the application form (suomi.fi, in Finnish) before you arrive at the service point.
• Even if you do not have a printer at home, read the form (suomi.fi, in Finnish) through. You will be able to complete the form at our service point while you wait for your turn.
• If you don’t know how to complete some of the sections of the form, leave them blank and ask for advice when you submit your application.
• No appointment is necessary for most of our service points. Customers are served on a first-come-first-served basis. 
• An appointment system is currently being tested in the following locations: Hämeenlinna, Joensuu, Kajaani, Lahti, Pori and Tampere. You are also still served at these locations without an appointment.
• Before leaving home, check the location and opening hours of the service point in case of any exceptional opening hours.

The registration of the ownership of an apartment costs EUR 69. If there is a separate share certificate for a parking space, a separate application for the parking space is required, which is subject to the registration fee EUR 69 according to the price list.

Please note that during peak periods, we will only allow as many customers in the queue as we will be able to serve before the customer service closes for the day. If the service point has a queue number device, it may be closed approximately an hour before the service point closes.

Application backlog

There is backlog of owner apartment applications, so we ask you to be patient. We will send you a notification by secure e-mail once your application has been processed. If you have not given us your e-mail address, you will receive a notification about the decision in a letter. If additional information is needed for your application, the person processing your application will contact you.

If you are in a hurry, you can expedite the processing of your application by contacting our customer service. Expedited processing may be justified if a new owner needs to start a renovation or if an undivided estate of a deceased person wishes to sell an apartment, for example.

For the average processing times of applications, see the Application processing times page.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused by the backlog.