15fa -- Rent index (2025=100) and average rents per square meter, quarterly, 2025Q1-2026Q1

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Area

Regional classification for rents of dwellings, base year 2025. Data for the whole country does not include Åland. The sub-areas of cities are based on the classification of postal code areas according to the price level and location of old dwellings in housing companies

Type of funding

Categorizes an observation as a non subsidised or government subsidised apartment.

Number of rooms

The number of rooms is the number of rooms in a dwelling. Kitchen is not counted as a room. Dwellings with at least three rooms belong to the category 3h+.

Information

Housing Rent Index (2025=100)

An index is a ratio describing the relative change in a variable (e.g. price, volume or value) compared to a certain base period [e.g. one year]. The index point figure for each point in time tells what percentage the given examined variable is of its respective value or volume at the base point in time. The mean of the index point figures for the base period is 100. The index calculation is based on monitoring the rents of the same dwellings over time. This takes into account the quality differences of the rental dwellings at different points in time.

Quarterly change in the housing rent index

Quarterly change refers to the relative change in the index of the quarter compared with the index of the previous quarter. The change is usually expressed in percentages.

Annual change in the housing rent index

Annual change is the relative change of the index in comparison with the corresponding time period one year ago (e.g. annual change of total index of consumer prices, i.e. inflation).

Average rent per square metre (EUR/m²)

Rents per square metre are weighted geometric averages of square metre rents (eur/m²). The quality differences of different rental dwellings are not taken into account in average rents and they are thus not suitable for examining changes in rents.

Number of observations in the calculation of average rent per square metre

Number of observations in the calculation of mean square rents

Average rent per m² for new rental contracts (EUR/m²)

Rents per square metre are weighted geometric averages of square metre rents (eur/m²). The quality differences of different rental dwellings are not taken into account in average rents and they are thus not suitable for examining changes in rents.

Number of observations in the calculation of average rent per square metre for new tenancy agreements

Number of observations, new tenancy agreements