Helsinki-based real estate firm Kahdeksas päivä says that the most sale prices of city apartments range between 200-300,000 euros. The agency said that a market review of real estate sales in 2017 revealed that apartments across the city are garnering ever-higher prices.
The volume of housing sales last year grew by about two percent the agency said.
The average price of a Helsinki flat sold via an estate agent was 280,698 euros last year, according to Kahdeksas päivä.
The agency said 11 percent of previously-inhabited - not newly built - apartments sold last year were for sums in excess of 500,000 euros. The number of apartments which sell beyond the half-million mark has increased by some 70 percent over the past five years.
Metro extension bringing customers westward
A similar trend of apartment price increases has also been observed in Helsinki's neighbour city Espoo, while at the same time the market for more affordable housing grew in nearby Vantaa.
Last year's opening of Helsinki Metro's western extension into Espoo has also likely contributed to an increase in interest in the suburb, Kahdeksas päivä's CEO Jussi Karppinen said.
The agency's market analysis was based on data from the Central Federation of Finnish Real Estate Agencies, which tracks registered transactions from approximately 75 percent of housing sales.