Overview of Finland

On this page you will find links to details of Finland holiday homes for sale and Finland rental accommodation. Finland is a country with a population on excess of 45 million people. Its official title is the Republic of Finland, it is known as a Nordic country and is located in Northern Europe sharing borders with Sweden in the West, Russia to the east. The climate is characterised by cold winters and warm summers but temperatures in winter are improved by the influence of the Baltic Sea and west winds from the Atlantic warmed by the Gulf Stream. In the far north, beyond the Arctic Circle, the sun does not set for about 73 days, producing the midnight sun of summer. In the same region, during the dark winter period, the sun remains below the horizon for 51 days, creating the polar night known in Finland as "Kaamos." Investors are slowly waking up to Finland as a destination for holiday & second homes. In country famous for skiing and outdoor pursuits, its no wonder then that log cabins and chalets are proving just as popular with investors as more conventional types of property. The capital city and perhaps the centre of interest for property investors is Helsinki. Helsinki is home to as much as 20% of the population and as many as three hundred thousand occupy rental property, Half of these occupy state controlled social housing. The lively and diverse capital is located partly on the mainland, and partly on an archipelago of islands in the Baltic Sea, Finland's picturesque and low rise capital city has many influences notably from nearby Sweden & Russia. Most of the properties have been built within the last 60 years, nothing much older than this remains as a result of extensive war time bombing. The main city centre surrounds the harbour, Etelesatama and the market square, as mentioned above, this ais a low rise city, there are very few tall buildings and this makes the capital seem very un city like.