Most of the apartments in the log row house completed last summer are still unsold.
First an apartment in a rare log row house has been sold in Honkasuu, Helsinki.
An exceptional terraced house called Aarreaitat was completed last summer, since then the apartments have been empty. There are six apartments in total.
Terraced house represents a new tradition building. Its logs are hand-carved from solid Finnish wood and the light partition walls are plastered with clay.
In addition to district heating, the apartments are heated by space-saving fireplaces, the chimneys of which are built from surplus bricks. The house produces electricity with solar power plants.
Each apartment includes a shed-like courtyard building, and at the back of the courtyard there is a common sauna room for residents to use. There are no saunas in the apartments.
Minna Aarnio on the steps of Honkasuo's log house in August 2023.
Log row house is a joint project of a couple working as an architect and construction engineer and the first of its kind in Helsinki.
Their goal was to build as ecologically and sustainably as possible.
The house has won several accolades in the construction industry. For example, at the end of last year, the Society of Architecture awarded Aarreaitai the Erik Kråkström wood construction award, and it received an honorable mention from the jury of the Wood Award.
Not sure in the economic situation, housing sales have been tight, and sellers have had to lower the prices of log row house apartments.
Towards the end of the year, the housing market began to show signs of a long-term pick-up after the government proposed a reduction in the transfer tax and the interest rate started to fall.
However, the euribor, which is used as the reference interest rate for Finnish mortgages, started again to rise early January.
The row house's first apartment sale was reported earlier Helsinki News.
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