I and my wife bought our first home together in Helsinki last year in August. I had previously been part of buying two other apartments but it was in my hometown of Vaasa where the situation is quite different from the overheated market of Helsinki. We had planned to move for close to a year and we were prepared with

The Finnish government budget meeting yesterday did neither reveal any larger budget cuts nor tax hikes. So that leaves the question – how will we pay for the current and coming deficits? It is said that the solution lies in creating more jobs, a feat that wasn’t feasible even five years ago during a booming economy. Our public sector has