Living

The Lahti region offers versatile housing options. You can choose from spacious city homes, atmospheric lakeside villas or idyllic country houses. While the Lahti region offers a spacious and natural living environment, the versatile services of a modern city remain close at hand.

Lahti region has a versatile range of sports and cultural offerings to choose from. Its splendid nature and waterways offer countless options for outdoor recreation and leisure time activities.

By a Lakeside

In the Lahti region it is possible to fulfil the dream which most Finns foster - that of living by the water - as 18% of the area of the Lahti region is covered by water. Near the city centre you can even rent a jetty right outside your front door!

Nature on your Doorstep

Lahti’s many parks and greens bring nature to your doorstep, even in the city centre. The city of Lahti has 340 hectares of man-made parks, while the natural ridge landscape provides an excellent and versatile environment for living and recreation.

Wood Architecture in the City of Carpenters

In Lahti, the Finnish tradition of building from timber extends even to its residential buildings. Modern wooden-built apartment buildings have been constructed to complement residential areas with older traditional-style wooden houses. A completely new wooden-built residential suburb, which is set to become the largest in Scandinavia, is currently under construction in Lahti. With its lake and forest setting and its low rise and compact building style, the new Karisto residential area has been developed with community spirit in mind.

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