TA-Yhtiöt right-of-occupancy apartment application
Filling in the application only takes a few minutes, and no attachments are needed. Select the districts and apartment types that interest you, fill in your personal details, and you may soon receive apartment offers.
You need a right-of-occupancy queue number
You can easily get a waiting number from Varke’s service. If you are applying for an apartment in the same property where you already live, you do not need a waiting number.
Improve your chances of receiving an offer
In your application, specify the districts where you are looking for an apartment. If you are only applying in certain areas, do not select the entire municipality, so that you only receive offers from areas that interest you.
Keep your search criteria flexible
A wider search area and flexibility regarding the apartment size and maintenance charge improve your chances of receiving offers.
Changing apartments within the same property?
You can apply for a new apartment by marking the application as an Application to change apartment. In this case, a queue number is not required.
Submitting an application does not oblige you to accept an apartment.
The application is valid for 12 months.
Do you need more detailed application instructions? See application instructions here.
If you wish, you can print out the PDF form, fill it in and return it to a TA office.
Application
Application instructions
1. Apply for a queue number
Apply for a queue number from the Centre for State-Subsidised Housing Construction Varke: hakija.aso.fi/kirjaudu.
The queue number is valid for two years. Please enter a valid queue number in the application. The queue number is national, and you can use the same number when applying for a right-of-occupancy apartment anywhere in Finland.
An applicant can only have one queue number in use at a time. If the queue number expires before you find a right-of-occupancy apartment, you can apply for a new queue number.
2. Good to know when filling in the application
General information
Fill in at least the mandatory fields marked with *. The information buttons in the application provide more information about each section to be completed. The application has three tabs. On the first tab, you select details related to your apartment search; on the second page, you fill in your personal details; and on the third, you check the details of the application. Apartments are generally offered by email. If you want to receive an apartment offer on paper by post, leave the email field blank in the application.
On the final page of the application, you can also choose whether you want to receive an application summary by email.
Applying by municipality or district
The cities/municipalities and districts selected in the apartment application, as well as other filters, determine which properties the application applies to.
- Start filling in the application by adding the district or municipality where you are looking for an apartment. You can add several cities or districts. If you add a city to the application, the application automatically applies to the entire city, even if you also add individual districts. For example, if you add Helsinki as an area and the district Jätkäsaari, the application will apply to the whole of Helsinki.
- Next, select Apartment type. You can select more than one if you wish.
- You can also narrow your search using other filters. Please note that the filters exclude all apartments that fall outside them. We recommend using filters with consideration.
- Under Add desired properties if you wish, you can check which properties your application applies to. See more detailed instructions below if you want to apply for a specific property or apartment.
Applying only for specific properties
First, select the properties you want to apply for in the Add desired properties if you wish menu. Then switch on the Apply for desired properties only slider.
Applying only for specific apartments
After you have selected a suitable preferred property, select the apartment you want to apply for in the Add desired apartments if you wish menu. Then switch on the Apply for desired apartments only slider. If you wish, you can select several apartments from the same property or from other preferred properties you have selected.
Examples of how filters affect the application
If you limit the living area in the application to 50–60 square metres, we cannot offer you an apartment of 60.5 square metres, even if it meets all your other search preferences.
You want to apply for a 2-room apartment type in Espoo. Several properties appear in the preferred property selection list. You select the preferred properties you want and activate the Apply for desired properties only slider. With this selection, the application applies to all 2-room apartments in the preferred property.
You want to apply only for a specific apartment in Espoo. You select from the list the preferred property whose apartment you are applying for. After this, you select that apartment from the Preferred apartments list and activate the Apply for desired apartments only slider.
Filling in personal details
If you do not have an email address or want to receive apartment offers by post, please leave the email field blank. Select No email address and fill in your address details in the application, so that we can send the apartment offer to you.
Remember to add all persons moving into the apartment by selecting Add an adult or Add a child:
Second primary applicant: A person who applies for a right-of-occupancy apartment together with you as a joint applicant. They will also sign any eventual agreement with you.
Secondary applicant: A person over 18 years of age who moves into the apartment with you but does not sign any eventual agreement, for example an adult child.
Child: A child under 18 years of age who moves into the apartment.
Application attachments
At the bottom of the page, it is possible to attach files to the apartment application. Here you can attach, for example, a power of attorney. Attachments related to the apartment search are not needed at this stage. Any required attachments will be requested in connection with a possible apartment reservation.
3. Tips for applying for a new property
Applying during the first application period
If you are applying for a new property during its first application period, you must select the Only new buildings filter in the application and select the property in question from the Add at least one desired property menu.
Continuous application
After the first application period, new developments are subject to continuous application, meaning that the application is filled in in the same way as for other properties.
If you select the Only new buildings filter in the application, the application applies only to new properties. In the Add at least one desired property list, you can see which properties your application applies to.
4. Changing apartments
Are you applying to change apartments within the same property where you already live?
You do not need a queue number and can go directly to filling in the apartment application. Please remember to select Application to change apartment on the second page of the application. If you also want to apply for our other right-of-occupancy properties with the same apartment application, you must add a valid queue number to the application. In that case, fill in the apartment application according to section 2 of the instructions above.
Are you applying to change apartments to another of our right-of-occupancy properties?
Fill in the apartment application according to section 2 of the instructions above. You need a valid queue number. Applying for another right-of-occupancy property is not an application to change apartment.
5. Apartment offers
Offer rounds are arranged for right-of-occupancy apartments, during which apartments are offered to applicants. If there is more than one applicant in an offer round, the queue number determines the applicant’s position in the queue. The apartment offer must be responded to by the deadline.
Right-of-occupancy apartments are primarily offered by email. Please also check your spam folder, as the apartment offer may be directed there.
6. Deleting, editing or expiry of the apartment application
Editing or deleting the application
If you want to edit an apartment application you have submitted, you can submit a new apartment application. Please also remember to ask the sales representative or customer service to delete your old application.
Do you have any other questions about your application? You can contact the sales representative for the property that interests you or our customer service. Our contact details can be found here: https://ta.fi/en/contact-information/.
Expiry of the application
The apartment application is valid for one year. If you want to continue your apartment search, fill in a new apartment application. Please add a valid queue number to the application.
Expiry of the queue number
Please note that if your queue number expires before your apartment application expires, the application will not be deleted automatically. In this case, you must ask for your old application to be deleted. If you still want to continue your apartment search, please remember to submit a new application to us with a valid queue number.
Please note that old queue numbers issued by municipalities can no longer be used to apply for a right-of-occupancy apartment, as their validity ended on 31 December 2023.
Page last updated on: 29.6.2026