House rent goes up by 2.4% in Q2

The year-on-year increase in house rents in the second quarter of this year was 2.4 per cent, according to Statistics Finland.

The rents of non-subsidised dwellings went up by an average of 2.4 per cent in the country.

In the Greater Helsinki area, the rents of non-subsidised dwellings went up by 2.3 per cent and in the rest of Finland by 2.4 per cent.

Compared to the previous quarter, the rents of non-subsidised dwellings increased by an average of 0.6 cent, and that of government-subsidised dwellings by 0.7 per cent.