Nationally, prices for old flats in Finland rose in October, but that's not the case in some of the country's bigger cities, according to Statistics Finland.
The number-crunching agency announced on Thursday that prices for not-newly built apartments rose by 0.4 percent compared to October of last year and by 0.9 percent compared to September of this year.
However, that was not the case in larger cities, including Helsinki and Tampere.
Statistics Finland's report noted that flat prices in Tampere declined by 1.9 percent, year-on-year. In Helsinki they went down by 0.2 percent.
In Greater Helsinki, prices of used flats increased by 0.1 percent year-on-year and by 1.3 percent, compared to September, according to the agency.
The biggest increase in apartment prices was seen in the southwestern city of Turku, where they went up by six percent. Meanwhile, prices for flats in the northern coastal city of Oulu ticked up by 2.6 percent in October, year-on-year.
Meanwhile, at the national level, dwellings in blocks of flats increased in price by 0.4 percent, while prices of terraced house dwellings ticked up by 0.3 percent in October, year-on-year.
Statistics Finland noted that the housing market was busier in October compared to the same month a year ago, with 27 percent more sales of flats and terraced housing dwellings handled by real estate agents.
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