- Marriage
- Examination of impediments to marriage
- Marriage ceremony
- Prenuptial agreement
- Notification of a marriage concluded abroad
- Divorce granted abroad
- Registration of the act applicable to the matrimonial property regime
- Registration of a deed of division of property
- Dissolution of cohabitation
- Removal of marital rights to property
- Extracts issued of the register on the right to officiate at weddings
- Having or adopting a child
- Names
- Moving
- Elections and Right to vote
- Suomi.fi Web Service
- Citizen Certificate and electronic identity
- Guardianship
- Continuing power of attorney
- Appointment of a guardian
- Duties of the guardian
- Guardianship for a minor
- Who can act as a guardian?
- Actions that require the permission of the guardianship authority
- Permit to buy or sell a dwelling
- Permit for purchase or sale of real estate
- Permit for the partition or separation of property and the division of inheritance
- Renunciation of inheritance, for the surrender of one’s share of an inheritance or an agreement on the joint administration of an estate
- Engaging in trade or the establishment of a company
- Property management plan
- Pledging of property and for borrowing and lending
- Leasing or investing a client’s property
- Limited account or the management of the earnings
- Appointing a substitute guardian
- Termination of guardianship
- Giving up the guardian’s task
- Guardianship authority's means of supervision
- Looking after the interests of an absent person or the future owner of the property
- Restrictions to competency and declaration of incompetence
- Extracts from the Register of Guardianship Affairs
- Certificates from the Population Information System
- Population information in the Population Information System
- Registration of a gift notification
- Services of notary public
- Certification of purchase
- Citizens’ initiative
- Death and estate inventory
- Living abroad
- Moving
- Registration of citizenship
- Divorce granted abroad
- Death abroad
- Registration of a child born abroad
- Registration of a name change performed abroad
- Notification of a marriage concluded abroad
- Registration of the act applicable to the matrimonial property regime
- Legalisation of foreign documents
- Notification of retaining Finnish citizenship
- Moving to Finland
- Public Service Info
- Address service
- Forms
A permit for leasing or investing a client’s property
You will need a permit when you rent out a property owned by your client or transfer a land lease or other right of use to another party with a fixed-term contract for a period of more than five years or longer than one year after the client reaches age of majority. For example, a permit is required for entering into a field lease agreement.
You will also need a permit if you rent out an apartment owned by your client under a fixed-term contract for a period longer than five years or longer than one year after the client reaches age of majority. This also applies to a right-of-occupancy dwelling.
No permit is needed for leases that are valid until further notice, unless the period of notice is so long that the agreement is comparable to a fixed-term contract that is valid for more than five years.
You do not need a permit to invest your client's property in the most common investment items. Such investment items include domestic or EEA stocks or investment fund shares (UCITS). If the investment item is a non-UCITS, you will need a permit for acquiring the investment item.
Before making any decisions concerning the tasks you are charged with, ask for your client's opinion, if it is important to do so and the hearing can be arranged with significant difficulty. However, a hearing will not be necessary, if your client is unable to understand the meaning or significance of the action.
This is what to do
Fill in the application and submit it and its attachments to the Digital and Population Data Services Agency.
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The processing of your permit application will be faster if you submit all the necessary attachments at the same time with your application. Where necessary, we will ask you for supplementary data.
We will send any request for supplementary data electronically to the Suomi.fi Messages service or via email, by post as a letter or by phone.
Required documents
Required attachments for a permit to rent out fixed property or an apartment
- Lease or its draft
- Original land lease or other comparable right to further lease (leasing of real property)
- Building manager certificate (renting an apartment)
- An expert’s assessment or other reliable report on the adequacy of the rent.
- If an estate to which the client is a stakeholder is the donor, a copy of the estate inventory deed, a copy of the deceased person's potential will, including its service of notice or certificate of validity, and a copy of any prenuptial agreement
- If your client is a minor aged 15 or over or an adult whose functional capacity is not limited and they understand the significance of the matter, the client’s written opinion on the action will be appended to the application.
Required attachments for a permit to invest a client's property in shares and funds
- Shares, subscription rights: Articles of association, most recent financial statements
- Shares in a cooperative: rules of the cooperative, its most recent financial statements.
- Bonds: Terms and conditions of the loan
- Fund shares: Investment fund rules
- A marking form which lists what and how much will be or has already been invested
- Options and forwards: On a case-by-case basis, sufficient account of the terms of the derivative contract and the financial position of the party selling the option
- If your client is a minor aged 15 or over or an adult whose functional capacity is not limited and they understand the significance of the matter, the client’s written opinion on the action will be appended to the application
Check list
- Consider whether the planned action will benefit your client.
- Discuss the matter with your client and find out their opinion on the matter, if the client is able to understand the significance of the matter.
- Check that you have all the necessary attachments for the application. The attachments to the application may be copies.
- Make sure that you are not disqualified from acting as a guardian in the action. If you yourself or your close relative is a party to the action, you will need to apply for a substitute guardian.
Links to laws related to the matter
Guardianship Services Act (442/1999), Unofficial translation in English (pdf)
Price
A permit decision costs EUR 184.
Processing period
The average processing time is two months. As a rule, cases are processed in their order of arrival. In individual cases, the processing time may be less or more than this depending on the size and complexity of the matter. Processing times are longer when not all necessary reports have been included as attachments to the application.
Frequently asked questions
If you lease your client’s dwelling for a period longer that five years with a fixed-term lease, you will need a permit to do so. No permit is needed for leases that are valid for the time being. Because you are leasing the dwelling to your own child, you are disqualified from acting as guardian to your client in this matter. You must apply for a substitute guardian to act in your place, who will sign the lease on behalf of your client. In addition, the rent paid must be consistent with fair market value even when the tenant is a relative.
You will not need a permit for the acquisition of the most conventional investment items. You will not need a permit to invest your client’s assets for example in listed stock or shares of UCITS funds in Finland or the ETA, unless the fund in question is a specialised investment fund (non-UCITS). Turn first and foremost to your bank for assistance, if you want to know whether an investment item will require a permit it not.
Guardianship Services contact information
When sending an email, please use the Digital and Population Data Services Agency’s secure email to ensure that your information is sent securely. Select [email protected] as the recipient in the secure mail
Send the email as a secure email
Postal address
Property inventories, annual statements and final statements must be sent to the postal address of the service location.
All other post to the Guardianship Service must be sent to the address:
Digital and Population Data Services Agency / Guardianship, PO Box 1001, FI-02151 Espoo
Telephone number
The telephone service is open 9.00-12.00 on weekdays
Service number +358 295 536 256
Chat service
You can also contact us via chat at our web pages. Chat service is open Mon-Fri from 9.00 to 15.00. Please do not give sensitive information, such as your personal ID number on the chat.
Service locations
Addresses of the Digital and Population Data Services Agency’s service location
- Individuals
- Marriage
- Examination of impediments to marriage
- Marriage ceremony
- Prenuptial agreement
- Notification of a marriage concluded abroad
- Divorce granted abroad
- Registration of the act applicable to the matrimonial property regime
- Registration of a deed of division of property
- Dissolution of cohabitation
- Removal of marital rights to property
- Extracts issued of the register on the right to officiate at weddings
- Having or adopting a child
- Names
- Moving
- Elections and Right to vote
- Suomi.fi Web Service
- Citizen Certificate and electronic identity
- Guardianship
- Continuing power of attorney
- Appointment of a guardian
- Duties of the guardian
- Guardianship for a minor
- Who can act as a guardian?
- Actions that require the permission of the guardianship authority
- Appointing a substitute guardian
- Termination of guardianship
- Giving up the guardian’s task
- Guardianship authority's means of supervision
- Looking after the interests of an absent person or the future owner of the property
- Restrictions to competency and declaration of incompetence
- Extracts from the Register of Guardianship Affairs
- Certificates from the Population Information System
- Population information in the Population Information System
- Registration of a gift notification
- Services of notary public
- Certification of purchase
- Citizens’ initiative
- Death and estate inventory
- Living abroad
- Moving
- Registration of citizenship
- Divorce granted abroad
- Death abroad
- Registration of a child born abroad
- Registration of a name change performed abroad
- Notification of a marriage concluded abroad
- Registration of the act applicable to the matrimonial property regime
- Legalisation of foreign documents
- Notification of retaining Finnish citizenship
- Moving to Finland
- Public Service Info
- Address service
- Forms
- Marriage
- Organisations
- Certificates
- Updating customer registers
- Sampling and analysis services
- Search services of the Population Information System
- Local Register Office Register search services
- Extracts from registers
- Maintaining the Population Information System
- Suomi.fi services
- Services to promote digitalisation
- Digital security services
- Services of notary public
- Certification of purchase
- Right to officiate weddings
- E-services
- About the agency