Land acquisition and disposal

The municipality acquires land for community development. The municipality's land acquisition targets key growth areas, i.e. areas for which partial master plans have been drawn up or are being drawn up.

The municipality strives to acquire unzoned land in large enough units in order to:

• comprehensive control and coordination of residential areas (living/recreational areas) is enabled in accordance with the overall benefit of the community
• enabling correct timing and financial implementation
• equal treatment of landowners is implemented
• it is ensured that the municipality receives an increase in value to cover the costs of infrastructure construction
• let's curb the rise in land prices

Land acquisition takes place primarily through voluntary transactions. The municipality can also exercise the right of first refusal within the framework defined by the First Purchase Act. The right of first refusal can be used in real estate transactions for consideration, where the surface area of ​​the object is more than 5 m000 and the party to the transaction is not the state or its institution, and it is not a relative transfer or forced auction as defined by law. According to the law, the right of first refusal can only be used to acquire land for community building and recreation and conservation purposes.

The municipality only acquires site-zoned land for its ownership through redemptions in special cases. These can include e.g.:

• parks and other green areas in the site plan area
• block areas of public buildings
• other possible special cases

The municipality hands over, i.e. rents and sells, the following:

• private plots
• terraced house and residential plots
• apartment building plots
• business and industrial plots

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  Plots

  More information about free plots.