Boutique real estate
in Finnish Lapland.
and the kind of place people come back to."
A boutique brokerage,
rooted in Lapland.
We are a small team of senior brokers based in Finnish Lapland. We work on holiday, investment, and luxury properties across the region, from the busy resorts at Levi and Ylläs to the quieter ground further north around Inari, Utsjoki, and Kilpisjärvi.
The firm was founded by Tanja Sotka, who moved from Helsinki to Lapland in 2021 and set up her practice on a simple premise: people who buy holiday homes in Lapland are looking for the same things that brought us here — quiet, space, and time with the people who matter.
The brokerage is built around that idea. We stay small on purpose and take on a limited number of clients each year. Everyone on the team handles their own listings and deals directly with buyers and sellers; nothing is passed down to a junior.
We work in Finnish and English, know our region well, and start every engagement the same way: by listening.
How we can help.
Selling a property
Valuation and pricing, marketing, viewings, contract and closing. We run the whole process in Finnish and English, with the level of care a high-value holiday property calls for.
Finding a home or investment
Clients come to us with a clear idea: a boutique villa, a family log cabin, an investment property with rental income. We represent you directly, and through our European broker network we see properties that never reach the public listings.
New development sales
We come in early on new-build projects — both RS-schemes and shared-ownership structures (KKOY) — working alongside developers through planning and pre-sales. The legal side is layered and the build cycles are long; we know how to handle both, and how to keep buyers with the project along the way.
Investment advisory
For clients buying for rental income, we put together a grounded yield analysis based on comparable properties in the same resort. Where it makes sense, we introduce you to local rental-management partners we have worked with for years.
Formal valuations
Formal written valuations for financing, probate, inheritance, or planning purposes, signed by a licensed LKV agent.
International buyer services
The whole process in English, from the first enquiry through contract, utility transfers, tax filing, and introductions to local professionals once the keys are in hand.
The Lapland we know.
Lapland is larger than England, but for a real estate brokerage what really counts is how well you know the ground you work on.
We work across five core markets, each with its own character and its own type of buyer:
In each of these areas we know the developers, the history, the seasons, and the small local conventions that rarely get written down. That knowledge isn't something we advertise; it shows up in how deals get done.
From first conversation
to keys in hand.
Every client's situation is different, but the way we work follows the same unhurried rhythm for buyers and sellers alike.
First conversation
What are you looking for, on what timeline, and what's worrying you? The good outcomes start with real questions rather than a pitch.
Understanding the market
Comparable sales, current stock, how the season moves prices, realistic ranges. You get the information; we leave the urgency to other people.
Selection & showings
Overseas buyers can start with video viewings and a proper walkthrough on screen. By the time you fly in, the trip is worth making.
Offer & negotiation
Finnish property deals sit on legal structures most foreign buyers have never seen before. We draft the offer, run the negotiation, and explain what's happening at each stage.
Transaction & transfer
Contract, escrow, utility transfers, transfer-tax filing, and the formal change of ownership: all coordinated from our office.
After the keys
Most of the questions come up in the first year of ownership, particularly for overseas buyers. We stay available; that's part of what you're signing up for when you work with us.
A home in Lapland,
from wherever you are.
Roughly 30–40% of our deals involve a buyer from outside Finland. In some of our new developments the figure is over 80%.
Our clients come from Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, Switzerland, and the UAE. For most of them it's their first Finnish purchase. The service covers:
A note on the past year.
We rebuilt laplandlkv.com in 2026 as a proper bilingual site, with live listings and parallel content in Finnish and English.
Aurora works alongside us day to day and has become part of how the team operates. We think of her as a colleague, not a piece of software.
Featured in Polestar's global Beyond the Road campaign in 2024, and on the front cover of Kauppalehti in January 2025.
We work with developers right across the region — Levi, Rovaniemi, Saariselkä, and the Arctic north. Current and completed projects include North Suites, LappSuites Kiilopää, and KUER, covering resort, wilderness, and city markets.
We have closed deals with buyers from eleven countries across Europe and the Middle East. For sellers and developer partners, that means a pool of buyers that reaches well beyond the Finnish market.
Licensed agent, 2025
April 2026
Europe & Middle East
Meet the team.
We are a small team by design. Each of us handles our own clients and listings and brings a different background to the work. What we have in common is a real connection to Lapland, and to the reasons clients come here in the first place.
Moved north from Helsinki in 2021 after twenty years in finance and energy. Qualified as a licensed agent and built her practice around why people actually come to Lapland in the first place. Managing director of Lapland LKV Oy; works mostly with international buyers and high-value properties.
At his best in face-to-face meetings, after a long career in customer-facing work — ten years running his own business and ten in real estate. Grew up in the north and knows the fells and the villages the way you only can from living there. Levi, Ylläs, and northern Lapland aren't a patch he covers; they're home.
Well connected in the Lapland property market and good at moving a negotiation forward without friction. Ran his own property-management firm for years, which left him fluent in the housing-company structures that underpin most Finnish holiday property. Focuses on buyer mandates, off-market sales, and negotiation.
Runs the office and handles in-house property styling. Business background (Master's in progress) and an interior-styling certification finishing this year. Styles each property in a Scandinavian-minimalist direction drawn from the local palette — no generic staging, nothing shipped in from elsewhere. Working towards her LKV qualification.
