The activities of the Regional State Administrative Agencies will end at the end the year 2025. Most of our tasks will be transferred to the new Finnish Supervisory Agency, which will launch its operations on 1 January 2026. Tasks related to animal health and welfare and to food will be transferred to the Finnish Food Authority. Competition and consumer administration tasks will be transferred to the Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority.
We enforce compliance with the applicable laws and best real estate practices of estate agents and leased properties. We also monitor that only licenced estate agents practice real estate. We also maintain a register of real estate and lettings agents.
We accept reports on the activities on estate agents. We also conduct investigations on our initiative for example by auditing the records and documents of estate agents, monitoring real estate marketing practices, informing estate agents about how Regional State Administrative Agencies interpret real estate legislation and by running monitoring campaigns and conducting inspection visits in real estate agent offices.
We do not monitor activities which are not limited to just licenced estate agents. For example the following activities are not considered activities limited to licenced estate agents under the Estate Agents Act:
preparation of valuation reports only
preparation of documents only
sales and rental activities by building management companies in housing companies managed by the companies, in the case of
selling or renting apartments owned by the housing company
renting apartments that the housing company has taken possession of
services related to the management of tenancies
private property sales.
Contacts concerning the activities of real estate agencies in writing
If your matter concerns the operations of real estate agencies, please contact the registry of the Regional State Administrative Agency in your company’s locality in writing.