- 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
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- 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
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- Forms
Permit for purchase or sale of real estate
When in your role as guardian, you sell real property owned by your client alone, owned in part by you client or owned by an estate in which you client is a stakeholder, or buy real property for your client you need a permit to do so. You will also need a permit if the transaction concerns an unseparated parcel or part of the property, or the leasing or other right of use with its buildings. For example, a permit is required for the sale of a single-family house located on a rental plot.
We recommend that you apply for a permit for the sale of a property in advance. However, you will need to attach a draft of the deed of sale to the permit application, which means the details of the transaction must be settled at the time you submit the application. The Digital and Population Data Services Agency can also retrospectively approve a real estate transaction, if it is in the interest of your client. However, the transaction will not obligate your client before a permit has been issued.
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 permit 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.
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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. You can submit the application via email by secure mail. Select [email protected] as the recipient of the secure mail.
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Submit the signed and scanned application and its attachments to the Digital and Population Data Services Agency by email or by post or take it personally to your nearest Digital and Population Data Services Agency service location.
Required documents
Required documents In addition to the permit application form the following documents must be appended:
- Deed, a draft of the deed or a preliminary agreement
- A current assessment of value or another reliable report or assessment on the value of the property.
- An expert assessment on the value of the forest
- An appraisal on the value of the field by the local Agricultural Administration Office or another expert
- In the case of the transfer or acquisition of a land lease or equivalent right of use, a land lease agreement is attached.
- If, when acquiring a property, the seller's right of ownership is not listed in the title deed, an additional explanation of the property’s ownership
- If a party to the transaction is an estate, an estate deed with a shareholder record, or if no confirmation has been applied for, an estate deed without an account of family relationships will be appended to the application. If we need further reports on family relationships, we will request these separately.
- The deceased person's potential will, including its service of notice or certificate of validity as well as any possible prenuptial agreement, if an estate is a party to the transaction.
- When purchasing real property, a statement on how the funding for the purchase will be arranged.
- 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 transaction will be appended to the application.
Check list
- Consider whether the planned purchase or sale will benefit your client
- Discuss the matter with your client and find out their opinion, if the client is able to understand the significance of the matter.
- Note that the purchase price must correspond to the fair value of the property.
- Check that you have all the necessary attachments for the permit application. The attachments to the application may be copies.
- Make sure that you are not disqualified from acting as a guardian in a real estate transaction. If you yourself or your close relative is a party to the transaction, you will need to apply for a substitute guardian.
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
In order for us to be able to process your application, we will need a draft of the document to which your application refers. For example, if you are applying for a permit to sell real property, a draft of the deed of sale, which shows all the terms and conditions of the future sale, must be attached to your application.
You are disqualified from selling your client’s property, if you or your close relative is the party purchasing the property. In this case, you will need a substitute guardian to act in your place.
As a rule, the sales price is the fair value of the property. An assessment on the value of the sold or purchased property must be attached to the application. This assessment includes, for example, the appraised value given by a real property agent.
The Digital and Population Information Agency will not grant a permit for such a transaction. Price undercutting is considered in part as giving a gift, and a guardian may not gift their client’s property. If you have signed the deed before applying for a permit, your client is not obligated to the transaction. As a guardian, you are liable to compensate your client for any financial damage your actions have caused.
The client’s opinion is determined in connection with the permit application, when an adult client understands the significance and meaning of the matter or the client is a minor who is 15 years old or older. The client can present their opinion into the section reserved for this on the permit application or in free form. Where necessary, we will ask the client to provide more information on the matter.
You must also apply for a permit for the sale of a property owned by an estate, if a stakeholder to the estate is a person under guardianship or children under the age of 18. The permit fee is comparable to the costs of the estate, which means that it can be paid from the estate's assets.
As a rule, the sales price is the fair value of the property. An assessment on the value of the sold or purchased property must be attached to the application. This assessment includes, for example, the appraised value given by a real property agent.
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
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