The price of buying a dwelling remained unchanged from the corresponding period.
Compared with the previous quarter, the housing costs of owner-occupied dwellings rose by 0.6 per cent and purchasing of dwellings became 0.3 per cent cheaper, the statistics show.
Statistics Finland's indices of owner-occupied housing prices consist of two index series.
The index is based on the data in the statistics on prices of units in housing companies and real estate prices.