Selling residential property

If certain requirements are fulfilled, you do not have to pay tax when you make a profit from selling the apartment or house where you have lived in.  

Capital gains are always taxed as capital income. If you sell the property at a loss, you can claim a tax deduction for that loss. 

The calculator helps you estimate how much tax you will pay on the profit from selling, for example, an apartment bought for investment purposes or a summer house.

Read the instruction. It tells you how to declare the sale of a housing company apartment, a house, a summer cottage or other residential property.

Find out whether the selling of an apartment or a house has an impact on the inheritance tax. You will find instructions concerning the estate’s capital gains taxes and your personal capital gains taxes, as well.

You can sell your own or your family members’ ordinary household goods tax-free if, at the end of the calendar year, the capital gains you receive are no more than €5,000.