Living in Hoas housing

You can reserve a parking space by filling in the parking space application. Please check first what types of spaces are available in your property. More information on parking spaces.

You can reserve a free, private time slot in the sauna or at the laundry room via the electronic reservation system, with a few exceptions. More information on sauna and laundry bookings.

You can request a statement from the register of occupants from Hoas housing services housingservices(at)hoas.fi. The statement from the register of occupants or the T form are not required for the student housing supplement. Hoas will provide details concerning your housing situation directly to KELA.

A student renting an apartment from Hoas can temporarily sublet their apartment to a third party during the summer months (May–August) or for the duration of a study-related work experience or exchange. Instructions for subletting.

You can live in Hoas apartments practically throughout your studies. Only studio flats have a limit of five (5) years, to allow as many students as possible to take advantage of them.

To live in Hoas housing, you must be a full-time student. When you graduate or your studies are interrupted, your right to occupancy also expires.  Full-time student status is verified by checking that tenants are earning study credits.

In order for us to update your change of name you need to provide Hoas housing services with a copy of your new identification document or a certificate of name change from Local Register Offices (Maistraatti). You also can come visit Hoas service centre with your new identification document. Please note that a student card or a Kela card is not an official identification document.

In order to qualify for housing at Hoas, the tenant must be a full time degree student at a school of higher education throughout the tenancy. The study credit limits required by Hoas have been set low enough to allow students to temporarily earn fewer credits, for example in case of health issues or when working on a thesis.

Students in universities, universities of arts and universities of applied sciences must earn at least 30 study credits per calendar year or 60 credits per two calendar years.

To live in Hoas housing, you must be a full-time student. When you graduate or your studies are interrupted, your right to occupancy also expires. According to the conditions of the tenancy agreement, the tenant must notify Hoas in case their studies are completed or interrupted.

If the tenancy agreement has been signed on an ongoing basis and has continued for over a year, the lessor's notice period is six (6) months. If the duration of the agreement is less than a year, the notice period is three (3) months. A fixed-term tenancy agreement will not be extended, if the tenant is not a full-time student.

Request for the check of right to occupancy is sent out to a part of the tenants usually in the beginning of the year. The meaning behind the check of right to occupancy is to vacate apartments for new students by giving notice on those tenancy agreements of the tenants who have already graduated, discontinued their studies or who will graduate by summer. Read more about the check of right to occupancy.

The purpose of the door opening service is to guarantee that you can gain access to your apartment in the event that you are temporarily not in possession of the key (the key is lost or you may have left it in the apartment). In most Hoas properties, the door opening service is provided by Securitas. Contact details for Securitas as well as their fee schedule can be found here.

If you lose your key, you must immediately submit a written report of the loss at the Hoas service centre. At the service centre, you can also buy a new key to replace the one you lost.

The tenant is responsible for the cost of rekeying of the locks and/or new keys.

Tenants in a shared apartment will be given one key each and no additional keys will be available. In other types of apartments, it is possible to buy one spare key (with the exception of apartments reserved for exchange students). Read more about buying an additional key here.

Hoas properties have tenant committees run by the tenants living in that property. Tenant committees manage the rental of the common spaces as well as their keys. You will find contact details for the tenant committee in your own property on the property notice board.

The rent due date is fixed and cannot be changed under any circumstances. The due date for rents is always the 6th of each month or the next business day after that.

More information on paying the rent.

You can ask for your rent invoice from Hoas Payment Services, payments[at]hoas.fi.

You can pay for several rents at a time. If you do, remember to keep track of when you need to pay your rent again.

Please also make sure to use the correct reference number given on the rent invoice.

More information on paying the rent.

The rent can be paid in several parts from different accounts and/or at a different time. Please remember the due date and use the reference number so we can tie the payment your tenancy agreement. The reference number stays the same every month.

More information on paying the rent.