Prices of dwellings in old blocks of flats and terraced houses went up by 0.3 per cent in the whole country from January to February, according to Statistics Finland’s preliminary data.

Prices went up by 0.2 percent in Greater Helsinki and by 0.4 percent elsewhere in Finland.

Compared with the corresponding period of the previous year, prices grew by 0.8 per cent in the whole country. In Greater Helsinki, prices went up by 3.4 per cent from the year before, but in the rest of Finland they went down by 1.5 per cent.

In February 2017, the average price per square metre of an old dwelling in a housing company was EUR 2,268 in the whole country, EUR 3,595 in Greater Helsinki and EUR 1,674 elsewhere in the country.

When the monthly statistics on prices of dwellings in housing companies are published, they cover approximately 50 per cent of all transactions made in the latest statistical month.

The monthly data become revised during the following months so that the final data for the year are published in the release concerning the first quarter of the following year.