Baltic Real Estate Investment Forum 2025: where are developers investing today?
The Baltic housing market today is diverse, segmented and starting to recover. This was evident at the Verslo žinios 2025 Baltic Real Estate Investment Forum, where residential real estate experts from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia discussed market developments, investment opportunities and the latest trends, while Raimondas Reginis, research manager for the Baltics at Ober-Haus, presented the Baltic housing market trends and told what changes to expect this year.
“The indicators for early 2025 are already leaving no doubt about the recovery of the Baltic housing market. With rising affordability, buyers are feeling more and more confident and active in their purchasing decisions. We should continue to see a steady increase in the number of housing transactions and rising volumes of new mortgages in the second half of this year.
However, despite the positive overall trends, the pace of the housing market recovery and the overall sentiment in the Baltic States still vary. Lithuania, and in particular its capital, has the highest confidence in the housing market and the fastest recovery. The more modest recovery rates in Riga and Tallinn show that developers in these cities have to make a very accurate assessment of the opportunities for buyers and the future direction of investment. For example, new quality economy class housing or refurbishment projects can offer buyers affordable housing. Therefore, it is likely that developers in these cities will focus on the development of such housing in the near future and will look forward to a faster recovery of the housing market,” Raimondas Reginis said at the event.
It is also important to achieve greater operational efficiency and to exploit the development potential in the cities. The housing market as a whole is constantly changing, so investors and developers also need to adapt to the changing needs of homebuyers and tenants and look for new investment opportunities.
“We have seen how the Baltic housing market has expanded over the last few decades, offering a wider range of housing options for those looking for a home: houses of different sizes and shapes on the outskirts of cities, new-build apartment blocks of both economy and high-end in different parts of the city, renovation/conversion projects of old buildings/areas, renovation of historic buildings in the central part of the city, housing of different sizes and layouts in exclusive rental projects, etc. As a result, some investors and developers tend to concentrate on a particular housing segment, to get to know it well and thus achieve greater efficiency. Renovation of old and unused buildings or changing the function of existing buildings also opens up development opportunities in more densely built-up areas of the city, i.e. investors can offer new housing to people looking for new housing at lower costs, in attractive locations in the city,” said Reginis.
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