Cheapest homes in Finland

Lauri Niskasaari · updated 26 October 2026 · data: Statistics Finland and National Land Survey of Finland 2025

Lieksa and Outokumpu are the cheapest municipalities in Finland for buying a flat. In 2025 a square metre there cost on average €351 and €366. €200,000 buys about 23 m² in Kaivopuisto - Ullanlinna (00140, Helsinki) and about 586 m² in Länsirinne (76150, Pieksämäki). Enter your own amount and area to see the space in your area, in the same municipality, in nearby municipalities and across Finland.

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How much space would the price of a small studio buy? We pick a 30 m² studio in one of the most expensive areas in Finland at random and show how much space the same money buys in a cheaper municipality.

Where are the cheapest homes in Finland?

The cheapest postcode area in 2025 was Länsirinne (76150, Pieksämäki), where a square metre of flat cost on average €342. The most expensive was Kaivopuisto - Ullanlinna (00140, Helsinki), €8,539 per m². The tables show where €200,000 buys the most and the least space.

The figures are average prices of old (resale) flats in 2025. Included are 426 postcode areas and the municipalities with at least 12 sales. Figures from fewer than 30 sales are marked with an asterisk (*). For terraced houses Statistics Finland publishes prices by municipality only.

Postcode areas where you get the most space

#	Area and municipality	m²	€/m²	Sales
1	Länsirinne (76150) Pieksämäki	586	342	28*
2	Lieksa Keskus (81700) Lieksa	508	394	12*
3	Leppävirta Keskus (79100) Leppävirta	454	441	14*
4	Sampola (28370) Pori	396	505	33
5	Karhuvuori (48350) Kotka	391	512	56
6	Pieksämäki Keskus (76100) Pieksämäki	388	516	73
7	Kitee Keskus (82500) Kitee	386	518	21*
8	Viksberg (30300) Forssa	385	519	26*
9	Kattilansilta (50160) Mikkeli	362	553	24*
10	Koivistonluoto (28330) Pori	362	553	18*

Postcode areas where you get the least space

#	Area and municipality	m²	€/m²	Sales
1	Kaivopuisto - Ullanlinna (00140) Helsinki	23	8,539	217
2	Punavuori - Bulevardi (00120) Helsinki	24	8,394	198
3	Punavuori - Eira - Hernesaari (00150) Helsinki	24	8,197	266
4	Kaartinkaupunki (00130) Helsinki	26	7,717	52
5	Kalasatama - Sompasaari (00540) Helsinki	26	7,571	82
6	Katajanokka (00160) Helsinki	27	7,390	122
7	Kalasatama - Kyläsaari (00580) Helsinki	27	7,370	120
8	Helsinki keskusta - Etu-Töölö (00100) Helsinki	27	7,323	420
9	Kruununhaka (00170) Helsinki	27	7,279	162
10	Jätkäsaari (00220) Helsinki	28	7,210	130

Municipalities where you get the most space: flats

#	Municipality	m²	€/m²	Sales
1	Lieksa	570	351	36
2	Outokumpu	546	366	33
3	Pielavesi	448	446	16*
4	Pieksämäki	425	471	118
5	Ilomantsi	424	472	19*
6	Leppävirta	407	491	28*
7	Juva	407	491	13*
8	Kitee	382	523	33
9	Keminmaa	367	545	15*
10	Nurmes	363	551	25*

Municipalities where you get the least space: flats

#	Municipality	m²	€/m²	Sales
1	Helsinki	38	5,225	9,211
2	Kauniainen	46	4,343	124
3	Espoo	52	3,812	2,590
4	Tampere	65	3,062	3,402
5	Pirkkala	74	2,704	224
6	Sipoo	74	2,697	102
7	Porvoo	76	2,646	310
8	Turku	76	2,639	2,432
9	Vantaa	79	2,543	1,929
10	Kempele	89	2,259	59

Municipalities where you get the most space: terraced houses

#	Municipality	m²	€/m²	Sales
1	Ilomantsi	676	296	29*
2	Outokumpu	587	341	28*
3	Lieksa	488	410	18*
4	Kitee	397	504	36
5	Kiuruvesi	381	525	17*
6	Mäntyharju	355	563	34
7	Pielavesi	348	575	17*
8	Nurmes	348	575	43
9	Kemijärvi	344	582	30
10	Kuhmo	338	592	12*

Municipalities where you get the least space: terraced houses

#	Municipality	m²	€/m²	Sales
1	Kauniainen	51	3,940	61
2	Espoo	54	3,736	1,504
3	Helsinki	54	3,672	1,243
4	Pirkkala	66	3,041	152
5	Vantaa	68	2,936	842
6	Kirkkonummi	69	2,889	251
7	Kaarina	73	2,727	233
8	Turku	74	2,712	592
9	Tampere	74	2,708	918
10	Järvenpää	75	2,663	315

Where does a detached house cost less than a studio in Helsinki?

For the price of an average 30 m² studio in Helsinki, about €157,000, you can buy a detached house at or below the middle price in 132 municipalities. The table shows the cheapest municipalities where at least 12 detached houses were sold in 2025.

Show the 15 cheapest municipalities

#	Municipality	Area	Middle price	Sales
1	Lieksa	countryside	€16,500	28*
2	Kristiinankaupunki	countryside	€25,000	19*
3	Virrat	countryside	€25,000	13*
4	Virolahti	countryside	€28,440	12*
5	Teuva	countryside	€30,000	13*
6	Isokyrö	countryside	€33,000	12*
7	Kauhajoki	countryside	€34,500	29*
8	Punkalaidun	countryside	€35,000	13*
9	Outokumpu	countryside	€36,250	14*
10	Jämsä	countryside	€38,000	17*
11	Kokemäki	countryside	€38,000	32
12	Ulvila	countryside	€39,000	28*
13	Kemijärvi	countryside	€40,000	13*
14	Pudasjärvi	countryside	€40,000	15*
15	Kemi	town	€42,000	24*

Source: National Land Survey of Finland, real estate transaction statistics (CC BY 4.0). The price is the median sale price of a detached-house property, land included, in 2025. House sizes are not recorded, and houses on leased land are missing. Town means an area with a local detailed plan (asemakaava). Figures from fewer than 30 sales are marked with an asterisk (*).

How far do you have to move to get twice the space?

From Helsinki a move of 10 km is enough. Vantaa is the nearest municipality where a square metre of flat costs half or less, €2,543, while in Helsinki it costs €5,225. The table shows the 15 municipalities with the most flat sales, and for each one the nearest municipality where the same money buys at least twice the space.

Show the table of 15 towns

Municipality	€/m²	Twice the space	€/m²	Distance	m² for €200,000
Helsinki	5,225	Vantaa	2,543	10 km	38 → 79
Tampere	3,062	Valkeakoski	1,231	29 km	65 → 162
Espoo	3,812	Hyvinkää	1,771	49 km	52 → 113
Turku	2,639	Masku	1,256	17 km	76 → 159
Oulu	2,207	Pudasjärvi	642	84 km	91 → 312
Vantaa	2,543	Karkkila	1,049	52 km	79 → 191
Jyväskylä	2,070	Muurame	890	14 km	97 → 225
Kuopio	2,164	Leppävirta	491	44 km	92 → 407
Lahti	1,619	Iitti	622	36 km	124 → 322
Vaasa	2,078	Kurikka	762	71 km	96 → 262
Hämeenlinna	1,759	Loppi	812	34 km	114 → 246
Rovaniemi	1,973	Kemijärvi	656	74 km	101 → 305
Pori	1,292	Harjavalta	590	27 km	155 → 339
Joensuu	2,052	Outokumpu	366	47 km	97 → 546
Kotka	1,154	Imatra	574	128 km	173 → 348

The figures are municipal average flat prices for 2025. Only municipalities with at least 12 sales are included. Distance is measured in a straight line between the municipal centres, up to 200 km.

Where did home prices fall most in ten years?

Outokumpu is the municipality where flat prices fell most in ten years. A square metre there cost on average €691 in 2016–2018 and only €335 in 2023–2025 (−52%). Prices rose most in Närpiö, from €1,028 to €1,369 (+33%). When prices fall, the same money buys more space than ten years ago.

Municipalities where prices fell most

#	Municipality	2016–18	2023–25	Change
1	Outokumpu	691	335	−52%
2	Lieksa	886	454	−49%
3	Juva	1,068	613	−43%
4	Kitee	1,108	680	−39%
5	Imatra	1,041	658	−37%
6	Pieksämäki	760	485	−36%
7	Nurmes	1,000	640	−36%
8	Leppävirta	860	555	−35%
9	Keuruu	1,080	717	−34%
10	Kangasniemi	1,102	743	−33%

Municipalities where prices rose most

#	Municipality	2016–18	2023–25	Change
1	Närpiö	1,028	1,369	+33%
2	Laukaa	1,065	1,342	+26%
3	Hanko	1,573	1,918	+22%
4	Pirkkala	2,274	2,764	+22%
5	Turku	2,282	2,742	+20%
6	Kaarina	1,711	2,039	+19%
7	Ylöjärvi	1,778	2,116	+19%
8	Sodankylä	815	965	+18%
9	Tampere	2,656	3,106	+17%
10	Lieto	1,768	2,052	+16%

The figures are municipal flat prices per square metre (€/m²) as three-year averages, because a single year in a small municipality can jump a lot. The euros are not adjusted for inflation. Included are municipalities with at least 12 sales in 2025 and a published price for all six years.

Questions about cheap homes in Finland

What is the cheapest place to live in Finland?

Lieksa and Outokumpu are the cheapest municipalities in Finland for buying a flat: in 2025 a square metre there cost on average €351 and €366. The cheapest postcode area was Länsirinne (76150, Pieksämäki), €342 per m². Only areas with at least 12 sales are included.

What is the cheapest house in Finland?

In 2025 detached houses were cheapest in Lieksa, where in the countryside half of the houses sold for under €16,500 (28 sales). So a single house can cost much less. For the price of an average studio in Helsinki you can buy a detached house at or below the middle price in 132 municipalities.

How much does a home cost in Finland on average?

The typical sale price of an old (resale) flat in 2025 was about €124,000, which means half of the sales were cheaper. According to the Bank of Finland, the typical new first-home loan in January–April 2025 was about €126,000. That is why €125,000 is one of the ready-made amounts in the calculator.

For journalists: data and source

You are free to use the figures on this page in your story. Credit asunnonarvolaskuri.com and the original data (Statistics Finland and National Land Survey of Finland), and link to this page so readers can try their own amount.

Municipalities as a table (CSV): flat and terraced house prices, the ten-year change, detached house medians and the nearest municipality with twice the space
Postcode areas as a table (CSV): average prices and sales by number of rooms
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The tables are in Finnish, with Finnish column names, and use semicolons as separators (Finnish Excel opens them directly). The figures are updated when Statistics Finland and the National Land Survey publish new annual data.

How the numbers are calculated

Show how the numbers are calculated

The prices are Statistics Finland's average prices per square metre of old flats in housing companies in 2025. A housing company (taloyhtiö) owns the building, and buying a flat means buying its shares. "Old flats" are resale flats, sold at least once before. New builds are not included.
The prices are debt-free prices (velaton hinta): they include the flat's share of the housing company's loan. If an ad shows both a sales price and a debt-free price, compare the debt-free price. Statistics Finland's figures come from transfer tax returns, so they are completed sales, not asking prices.
The square metres are the amount divided by the area's average price per square metre, rounded to whole square metres. Square feet: 1 m² is 10.76 sq ft.
As real homes, a studio is 30 m², a one-bedroom flat 50 m², a two-bedroom flat 75 m² and a terraced house 90 m². The sizes are examples. The price is the size times the average price per m² for that number of rooms in the postcode area if the area had its own sales, otherwise the municipal flat average. Two-bedroom flats include bigger flats too, and terraced houses use the municipal average. The Sold column shows how many such homes were sold in 2025.
The slider finds, within the chosen distance, the municipality with the lowest average flat price per m² and at least 12 sales. The dirt-cheap home is drawn from the 20 cheapest municipalities in Finland, never your own.
The twice-the-space table shows the nearest municipality where the average flat price per m² is at most half of the home municipality's and there were at least 12 sales. Distance is measured in a straight line between the municipal centres, up to 200 km.
The same money in 2016 figure compares the municipal average flat price per m² in 2016 and 2025. The euros are not adjusted for inflation, so the figure shows the price change, not the change in purchasing power. The list of the biggest falls compares three-year averages.
The "For sale now" links open a search on Etuovi.com (in Finnish) for homes for sale in the municipality, by building type and number of rooms. We get no commission from these links.
The figure is an area average, not the price of a particular home. In the same area a renovated home usually costs more and one that needs renovation less. For an estimate of your own home, use the home value calculator (in Finnish).
The postcode area price is the average price of the area's studios, one-bedroom and bigger flats, weighted by the number of sales. If no price of its own was published for the area, the municipal average is used, and the result says so.
Each figure shows the number of sales. Figures from fewer than 30 sales are marked with an asterisk (*), because a small sample can jump. The lists of the most and least expensive include only areas and municipalities with at least 12 sales.
Terraced house prices are published by municipality only, so there are no postcode figures for terraced houses.
Nearby municipalities are chosen by the straight-line distance between the municipal centres. The centre is calculated from the postcode areas of Statistics Finland's Paavo data, weighted by population.
Detached house prices come from the National Land Survey of Finland's real estate transaction statistics. The price is the middle sale price, or median (half sold for less and half for more), of built detached-house properties by municipality in 2025, separately for towns (areas with a local detailed plan) and the countryside. The price includes the land. House sizes are not recorded, so no square metres are calculated for detached houses. Houses on leased land and houses owned through a housing company are missing, and a figure is published when there are at least three sales.
Sources: Statistics Finland, prices of old dwellings in housing companies and the Paavo postcode data, and the National Land Survey of Finland, real estate transaction statistics (CC BY 4.0). The full method is on the page how the calculator works (in Finnish).