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Exchanging right-of-occupancy homes

Would you like to change your right-of-occupancy home? On this page you will find instructions for exchanging apartments with another resident as well as within the same building.

Asuntosäätiö's residents Heidi and Nina.

Exchanging right-of-occupancy homes

Residents of right-of-occupancy homes can exchange apartments with one another. Use our apartment exchange service (in Finnish) to find a suitable exchange partner. All residents of right-of-occupancy homes can post announcements in the service. The announcement will be displayed on our pages for three months, after which it will be automatically removed. It can also be removed from the link on the e-mail you will receive after publishing the announcement.

As a right-of-occupancy resident, if you want to move from your current right-of-occupancy home to another right-of-occupancy location, you must apply for a queue number from The Housing Finance and Development Centre of Finland (ARA). The queue number is not necessary if you find another apartment exchanger with whom you want to exchange apartments.

It is also possible to exchange right-of-occupancy homes between different right-of-occupancy companies and from one municipality to another. If you have not found an exchange partner, you will need a new queue number to change homes. 

Please note that the apartments are sold in the condition they are in at the time of exchange.

How to proceed once I have found an exchange partner?

  1. Submit the signed exchange form to us. We will remove your exchange announcement from our pages to ensure you are not contacted unnecessarily. You can find the exchange form in Kotikulma (in Finnish only).
  2. It takes Asuntosäätiö approximately two months to prepare the exchange.
  3. Before the move, both parties sign a new right-of-occupancy contract.
  4. If you have pledged your right-of-occupancy agreement to the bank as collateral for the loan, please notify your bank before signing the right-of-occupancy contract.

Further information about exchanging right-of-occupancy homes can be found in Kotikulma (in Finnish only).

Contact details:

If you need help with posting an announcement, please send us an email to asiakaspalvelu@asuntosaatio.fi.

Exchanging right-of-occupancy homes within the same right-of-occupancy house

With the reform of The Right-of-Occupancy Housing Act, exchanging right-of-occupancy home within the same right-of-occupancy house became easier. The holder of right-of-occupancy has a priority in the housing search, when an apartment becomes available in the same location.

How to proceed if I want to exchange apartment within the same house?

Complete an application in our online service and fill in that you already have the right-of-occupancy in the same house.

Please note that when applying for an exchange of apartments within the same building, your apartment application must be included in the first round of offers for the apartment in accordance with the guidelines of the Housing Financing and Development Center Ara. See instructions on how to apply for a right-of-occypancy apartment.

If there are several applicants from the same house, the applicant with the oldest right of occupancy contract will be selected. If the contracts are signed on the same day, the recipient of the apartment will be decided based on the queue number. Right-of-occupancy applications within the same right-of-occupancy house are valid for two years.