Property type shows what kind of property it is – for example Office, Retail or Multi-dwelling buildings – and is used to filter and group properties in Kliva. The register covers 16 property types, of which 13 are shared between Sweden and Finland and 3 exist only in Sweden.
How a property is classified
Sweden is classified based on the property tax assessment's type code, which is broken down further where the code alone is ambiguous – for example using the building's stated purpose or a tenant's industry code (SNI).
Finland is classified by aggregating each building's Rakennusluokitus 2018 use-purpose code (Finland's building-use classification) up to the property level, weighted by floor area.
Both countries produce the same 16 property types below.
Mixed use: If two signals point in different directions – for example a building's stated purpose says one thing and a tenant's industry code says another – the property is flagged as mixed use, and both signals are kept rather than one silently overriding the other.
Residential
Property type | Scope | SE source | FI source |
Multi-dwelling buildings | Multi-dwelling buildings and other buildings with several rental or tenant-owned units. | Type code 320, 230, 311/313/381/399 (the rental housing unit band); type code 321 (mixed residential/premises) when the residential share is at least 75% of the building area, otherwise undecided and the property is flagged as mixed use. | Rakennusluokitus prefix 01 by default; code 0130 (community housing) pending confirmation. |
One- or two-dwelling buildings | Detached houses, terraced houses and chain houses on their own registered plot. | Type code 220, 213, 225, 223, 299, 281 (the one- or two-dwelling unit band). | Code 0110 (single-family house), 0111 (two-family house), 0112 (terraced house). |
Commercial & hotel
Property type | Scope | SE source | FI source |
Office | Office space, including mixed "premises" buildings where office is the dominant tenant type. | No dedicated type code exists – derived from type code 325 ("premises") / 326 ("office within industrial land") via the building's stated purpose plus the tenant's SNI code (62–66, 69–74, 78–82); the default for an otherwise undecided 325. | Rakennusluokitus prefix 04 by default. |
Retail | Shops, shopping centres and restaurant/café operations. | Type code 323, 430; SNI 47 (retail), 56 (restaurants); stated purpose "Shop / Retail / Shopping centre / Department store." | Rakennusluokitus prefix 03 by default. |
Hotel | Hotels and other short-term accommodation. | Type code 322; SNI 55; stated purpose "Hotel / Restaurant." | Code 0320/0321/0322/0329. |
Parking | Standalone parking garages and multi-storey car parks. | Type code 324; stated purpose "Parking garage / Garage." | Code 0513/0514. |
Industrial & logistics
Property type | Scope | SE source | FI source |
Warehouse & logistics | Large-scale warehousing and distribution space. | Type code 432, but only above 2,500 m² of industrial area – below that threshold it becomes Light industry instead; SNI 49–53. | Rakennusluokitus prefix 12 by default; code 0511 (vehicle depots). |
Industrial | Heavy manufacturing, metalworking, mining and power generation. | Type code 421; type code 423 above 1,000 m² of industrial area; the entire 700-series (electricity production unit) by default. | Code 0911 (heavy industry), 0930–0939 (mining, quarrying, ore processing). |
Light industry | Lighter manufacturing, workshops and craft premises. | Type code 420 (core signal), 422, 424–426, 431; type code 423 below 1,000 m²; SNI 10–33 (all manufacturing). | Rakennusluokitus prefix 09 by default (excluding the heavy codes above); code 0512 (vehicle service). |
Industrial – Other | An industrial property whose exact subtype is not yet known. | All type codes in the 400-series (industrial unit) without a more specific mapping – including 498, 499, 433, 443, 610. Broken down further into an actual subtype using the building's stated purpose and the tenant's SNI code where that evidence exists. | — |
Institutional & specialised
Property type | Scope | SE source | FI source |
Social infrastructure | Schools, healthcare, sports, culture and other public or community use. | Type code 823–828, plus 800 and the rest of the 800-series by default; stated purpose "School / Hospital / Health centre / Sports hall / Ice rink / Swimming pool / Cultural building." A confirmed public-sector tenant raises the classification. | Rakennusluokitus prefix 06 (institutional care), 07 (assembly buildings), 08 (education), 13 (emergency services); code 0140. |
Data center | Pure data centers. | No register code exists for this at all – upgraded from an industrial or warehouse base via a match on a known operator name, or via a tenant's SNI 63.11 (data processing & web hosting); telecom operators (SNI 61.x) are explicitly excluded. | Same upgrade logic, limited to Rakennusluokitus code 0520 completed in 2018 or later. |
Land
Property type | Scope | SE source | FI source |
Land/Development | Undeveloped or unexploited land, ready for development. | Type code 210, 310, 411, 810 (the Swedish Tax Agency's own designation "undeveloped"); plus properties with no tax assessment and no building at all. | Same no-building fallback. |
Joint property land | Jointly owned land or infrastructure – roads, commons, shared water. | A property with no tax assessment whose Lantmäteriet (Swedish land survey) designation ends in "S:<n>" (joint property unit). | — |
Agricultural, forestry & other land | Active agricultural or forest land – working rural land, not an undeveloped plot. | The entire 100-series (agricultural unit) directly; also a property with no tax assessment that has a farm building, or at least one hectare in area. | — |
Unclassified
Property type | Scope | SE and FI source |
Other | No reliable signal anywhere – recorded honestly rather than guessed. | Genuinely uncoded register codes, or a property whose only buildings are ancillary structures and unclassifiable (for example a garden shed). |