Printed, paper housing company share certificates will be replaced by an electronic registration of ownership in the Residential and Commercial Property Information System maintained by the National Land Survey of Finland (NLS).
Individual shareholders have 10 years to digitize their share certificates
The change will take place in two stages. First, housing companies must transfer their list of shareholders to the system. Many housing companies will complete the registration by the end of 2023. After that, individual shareholders have 10 years to digitize the share certificate of their own apartment or parking space.
You can hand in the paper share certificate along with the application to one of NLS’s customer service points. Check NLS’s tips on how to easily and smoothly register your paper share certificate in the Residential and Commercial Property Information System.
If you want to mail the application and share certificate through Posti, you must mail them as an insured item as a housing company share certificate is a security.
Insured items are handled in a separate secure handling. The delivery of the item can be tracked with the tracking bar code. The item is handed over to the recipient only against acknowledgement.
The insurance covers only actual and substantiated damage in accordance with insured value.
Learn more about Posti’s insured items. On the same page, you can find answers to frequently asked questions.