Latvia · LVA · snapshot 2026-10-06
Latvia
Measured
Currency movement
Not measured
This market's currency is the euro, so there is no euro reference rate for it and no entry window to state. For a euro-denominated buyer there is no currency move here at all; for anyone else the move is in their own currency against the euro, which this screen measures on the market they are coming from rather than the one they are going to.
Foreign-buyer rules
1 of 1 published rules apply
These are the restrictions a foreign buyer meets before price is even discussed — approval regimes, surcharges, ownership limits.
What it does not show. It is not a completeness claim. A rule we have not read is not a rule that does not exist, and this row counts what is cited, not what is in force.
Cost of money
2.25%
The price of money to banks across the euro area, set by the European Central Bank rather than by anything in this country. It sets the floor everything else is priced from, and it is identical in every member state.
What it does not show. It is not a mortgage quote, and it is not a fact that distinguishes this market from any other euro-area member — the rate is the same in all of them, so it can never be the reason to prefer one over another. What differs between them is what a bank adds on top, which this does not measure. What a non-resident is offered is a different number again, usually much higher.
Supply against absorption
Not measured
No statistics agency for this market has been read and cleared for republication.
Residential price cycle
152.2 against a 2015 base of 100
House prices have risen faster than consumer prices since 2015 — the market is above its own inflation-adjusted level of that year.
What it does not show. It is a position, not a direction, and it is not a valuation. Deflating by consumer prices says nothing about what the asset yields or what credit costs, and a market can sit above its 2015 level for years without that meaning anything is due.
Valuation against its own history
Not measured
The OECD house-price dataset does not carry this territory, so there is no ratio to state. The dataset covers its members and a set of partner economies, and most of the world is in neither.
On the market now
Not measured
No listings platform has been read for this market. The one platform this site can read covers Russian cities only, and inventing a count for anywhere else would be worse than an empty row.
No dossier has been written for this market yet. What follows is the measured layers and the rules, each with its source — not an argument about whether to be here. A market reaches this page as soon as two layers can be cited, because an unwritten thesis is a reason to publish less, not a reason to publish nothing.
The series behind those figures, and the workings
Cost of money
2.25%
Central bank policy rate, 2026-08. Source: Bank for International Settlements.
This is the price of money to banks, not the price of money to a non-resident buying a building. The gap between those two is where a market’s financing story actually lives, and it is not in this number. A mortgage quote for a foreign buyer depends on the lender, the asset and the borrower, and no public dataset carries it.
BIS terms permit this figure on a free page and state that nothing in their statistics constitutes investment advice. They also allow inclusion in a commercial product only where it adds no charge, so this series is published here and is not priced into any paid work.
Background
Annual national statistics from the World Bank, under a licence that permits reuse with attribution. They describe the country; they do not time an entry, and they are not counted as measurements of this market — otherwise every territory on earth would claim to be measured on the strength of one dataset.
| Indicator | Value | Year |
|---|---|---|
| GDP per capita | 26,312 US$ | 2025 |
| Consumer price inflation | 3.7 % | 2025 |
| Population | 1,847,785 | 2025 |
| Urban population | 68.6 % of total | 2025 |
| Official exchange rate | 0.8850 per US$ | 2025 |
What the rules do to a foreign buyer
Each entry cites the instrument and the authority page it was read from, with the date it was retrieved. Facts of law change; the retrieval date is how you know how old this reading is.
| Topic | How it fails you | In force | When it bites | Applies to | What applies | Instrument | Read on |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Which land is closed, and the OECD code that decides who is asking | Not allowedMoney does not open it | In forceNot stated by the source | On the way in | Land onlyYour passport | Latvia sorts buyers of land by a test most readers will not expect. Citizens of Latvia, of other European Union member states, of European Economic Area states and of Switzerland may acquire land, and so may persons of states party to the OECD Code of Liberalisation of Capital Movements — so nationality of an OECD member, not membership of the Union, is what puts a buyer on the near side. Everyone else may still acquire land, but not all of it: the Act closes the state border zone, nature reserves and other specially protected nature areas, land in mineral deposits of national significance, and agricultural and forest land other than territories where construction is intended, which are themselves capped at five hectares. So the shape of the restriction is a list of things that cannot be bought rather than a permit that might be refused, and an urban building plot is outside every item on that list. A further layer sits on agricultural land specifically, where the Act imposes qualifying conditions on the acquirer including a Latvian language requirement; that layer has not been read here in full and is recorded as present rather than described. | Law On Land Privatisation in Rural Areas (Latvia), Sections 28 and 29, with Section 28.1 noted but not read in full. Read from the official English translation published by likumi.lv. | 2026-09-06 |
What is missing, and why
currency — Source does not cover this market
The dataset simply does not include this territory. Absent, not zero.
This market's currency is the euro, so there is no euro reference rate for it and no entry window to state. For a euro-denominated buyer there is no currency move here at all; for anyone else the move is in their own currency against the euro, which this screen measures on the market they are coming from rather than the one they are going to.
supply — Source does not cover this market
The dataset simply does not include this territory. Absent, not zero.
No statistics agency for this market has been read and cleared for republication.
What supports this, what would make it wrong, and how it could go
Record
| Why this market is on the list | Added when the euro area was expanded into its member states. The cost-of-money layer here is the European Central Bank's rate, which is not a fact about this country in the way a national policy rate is a fact about Japan — it is identical in all twenty-one members and can never be the reason to prefer one over another. It is published because its absence was worse: without it this territory rendered on the coverage map exactly like one whose central bank publishes nothing at all. The valuation layer is this country's own, indexed to its own 2015. Euro adopted 2014. The friction layer was opened on 2026-09-06 from the official English text of the rural land privatisation Act published by likumi.lv, the state legal service. The line it draws is not the European Union but the OECD Code of Liberalisation of Capital Movements, which puts a Japanese or American buyer on the near side of it. |
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| Dossier | None written. Layers and rules only, which is why this market reads as “Measured” rather than reviewed. |
| Next review | 2026-11-15 |
| Evidence snapshot | 2026-10-06 |