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New housing complex in Hatanpää
04.02.2026
Our new residential property will be completed in the lovely Hatanpää neighborhood at the end of April and will be ready for occupancy from th...
POAS celebrates its 60th anniversary!
29.01.2026
In the early 1960s, Tampere became aware of a problem that was familiar to many growing cities in Finland. More and more young people were mov...
Avoid accidents!
26.01.2026
In 2025, POAS had an unusually high number of near misses related to fire safety. The most common hazards were caused by the incorrect use of ...
Christmas Calendar 2025 is here!
27.11.2025
Follow our Instagram channel @poaskoti and take part in our Christmas calendar competition! As usual, POAS’s Christmas calendar will be ...
Staff News
10.09.2025
Personnel changes Nelli Jokelainen (on the left), who has worked as Marketing Specialist since 2019, will take temporary sabbatica...
Cold inside your home? Heating is on
04.09.2025
Heating is on in all our apartments. However, as outdoor temperature drops, it may still feel cold inside your apartment. In this article we e...
Few 1-bedroom-apartments available in Tieteenkatu
02.09.2025
From this article you can read about our new building projects that are currently under construction. Tieteenkatu 4, Hervanta area This buildi...
Information on apartment availability for applicants
05.08.2025
Updated 8/2025 We currently have over 2200 valid housing applications in our system. We receive many questions regarding the availability of a...
Our CEO cycled to Paris
29.07.2025
Our CEO Timo Jokinen cycles to Paris as part of the Team Rynkeby charity campaign! Team Rynkeby Tampere team in Helsinki getting ready for the...
Hot inside your apartment?
16.07.2025
During hot weather we get lot of questions concerning the apartment temperature. We understand it may feel uncomfortable inside, even though a...
Finland’s Prettiest Student Home 2025
18.06.2025
Finland’s Prettiest Student Home has been selected! Is your student apartment affordable but beautiful? Take part in The Prettiest Stude...
Employee news
12.06.2025
Meet our summer employees Salli Kähönen joined us in the apartment inspection and cleaning team. She will work as an assistant to our cleaning...
TVA 💙 POAS Tenant event in Särkänniemi
29.04.2025
TVA and POAS are organizing a free tenant event in Särkänniemi Amusement Park on Friday 23 May 2025 from 3.00 to 8.00pm. Tampereen Vuokra-asun...
New apartments in Hipposkylänkuja
07.03.2025
Our newest housing complex in Hipposkylänkuja, Kissanmaa area is completed. First tenants moved in on 1st March 2025. The housing complex is c...
Exceptions to service hours
04.12.2024
During Christmas time, there are some exceptions to our service hours. See the exceptional opening hours below. Service exceptions: Friday 6 D...
Christmas Calendar raffle
28.11.2024
Follow our Instagram channel @poaskoti and participate in Christmas Calendar raffle! Traditional POAS’s Christmas Calendar will be published o...
Participate in a gift card raffle
18.11.2024
Show your recycling solutions and you can win a €50 gift card! How do you recycle your waste? Bio waste on the balcony, cardboard boxes in the...
Tenants’ movie night
03.10.2024
The movie night features the long-awaited sequel to the awarded Joker movie: Joker: Folie à Deux. The event will be held in Finnkino Plevna on...
Pay rent in our tenant portal
11.06.2024
Tenant portal has been updated. You can now pay your rent and possible other invoices directly from the tenant portal. In addition to possible...
New housing application
04.06.2024
New housing application will be published on our website on Wednesday 5 June. The new application is going to be more simple and easier to use...
Information on general housing allowance changes
15.05.2024
Finnish parliament has approved cuts to the general housing allowance, which will reduce the rates of the allowance in 2024. Most of the chang...
Temporary housing during summer
02.04.2024
We rent unfurnished apartments during summer season (from May to August). You can apply for summertime housing if you need an apartment tempor...
Changes in tenant criteria
20.03.2024
The board has made changes to the tenant criteria of our housing complexes based on customer feedback. From now on, all housing complexes dire...
Rent revision on 1 March 2024
16.01.2024
Rents have been reviewed for 2024. The rent revision is due to significant increases in financing costs, energy costs and service prices. Than...
New shared electric car in Jäähallinkaari
04.01.2024
Updated 11/2024 From 1 December 2024, the shared car service in Jäähallinkaari area will be provided by Omago. You will find the fully electri...
Get a free biowaste bin
20.09.2023
Earlier this year, we provided biowaste bins and paper bags in few of our housing complexes. We received tenant feedback that the tenant benef...
Wooden houses in Hipposkylä
14.09.2023
A new urban plan of Hipposkylä area in Kissanmaa took place on 5 October 2020. The urban plan requires the protection and renovation of old wo...
Trash days
04.05.2023
Trash days in few of our housing complexes In May 2023, we’ll arrange a POP UP tour in few of our housing complexes again. This year the...
Our energy saving actions
21.02.2023
POAS will take actions to save energy, and we hope that all our tenants will do their part to keep the rents reasonable next year as well. In ...
Apply for renewed apartments in Hervanta
06.10.2022
POAS’s first facelift renovation is carried out in our housing complex of Insinöörinkatu 59 during this fall. Facelift renovation increa...
Service changes due to COVID-19
16.02.2022
POAS follows the corona virus situation as well as the instructions and information provided by authorities. We take actions on our behalf to ...
POASnet network maintenance
09.02.2022
POASnet network administrators are carrying out maintenance works on Thursday 17 February at 6.00-8.00pm. During this time, there might be int...
Order rent letters as digital mail
21.01.2022
Make an easy climate act and receive paper letters to digital mailbox Kivra! We have started using a Kivra digital mailbox service that enable...
Jäähallinkaari apartments rented
18.10.2021
All the apartments of our new building in Jäähallinkaari are now rented. Tenants can move in from 1 December 2021, as scheduled. This housing ...
Our website is renewed
03.06.2021
We are improving the look and functionality of our website. This may cause momentary malfunctions on our website. We apologize for the inconve...
Additional services for tenants
22.04.2021
Household appliances that needs to be connected to water network, such as tumble dryer, dishwasher or laundry washing machine, must always be ...
Foodora tenant benefit
12.04.2021
POAS offers snacks! Due to corona virus situation, it is a safe choice to skip tenant events this year as well, so we wanted to offer another ...
New tenant surveys
31.03.2021
POAS introduces a new tenant survey tool. All our tenants receive a general survey once a year, which is sent by text message to your mobile p...
Water saving challenge
17.03.2021
Water is not endless. Clean water is a dwindling natural resource and water resources are unevenly distributed. Finnish person uses an av...
Our phone numbers change
09.03.2021
POAS is upgrading its telephone systems, and therefore employee’s direct phone numbers will change. You can check the new phone numbers on our...
Sale of Karosenkatu 3 and 4
08.02.2021
Pirkan Opiskelija-asunnot Oy (POAS) sells its residential properties of Karosenkatu 3 and Karosenkatu 4, a total of 125 apartments, located in...
Issues with online services
15.01.2021
UPDATE ON 19 January 2021: The issues on our website are now fixed, and all our online services are available normally. We have enco...
New support athlete
05.10.2020
Introducing our new support athlete, biathlete Saana Lahdelma. Our 21-year-old support athlete has been successful in youth biathlon: in 2019 ...
Employee designations
25.09.2020
New staff from 1st of October onwards: Elli-Noora Niemelä joins our office’s customer service team. Elli-Noora’s duties include processing hou...
Plastic recycling information
18.06.2020
Installation of plastic recycling bins is finished and all of our housing complexes have plastic collection bins. The collections bins as well...
Apply for new apartments!
01.03.2020
You can now apply for our new apartments that will be completed in Fall 2020! The application process is same than applying any other POAS apa...
Poastinen reform
28.01.2020
Poastinen is our customer magazine which have been published twice a year since 2016. Due to Ecocompass environmental certificate, we aim to d...
POAS ❤️ ZAU Campaign
07.12.2019
POAS joins to improve women and girls’ status as well as prevent dividing jobs to “men and women’s jobs”. Instead of sending Christmas cards a...
Exceptions in office opening hours
18.11.2019
Christmas time brings some exceptions to our office’s opening hours in the end of 2019: 22nd November open 9am-2pm 6th December closed (Indepe...
Internet breakdown in Vaahterakuja
07.10.2019
We are sorry to inform that POASnet Internet connection has a breakdown in Vaahterakuja 5 and 7. This issue occured on Sunday evening 6th of O...
Shared cars available this Autumn
03.10.2019
The service operator of electric cars pilot project has changed in August 2019. The OP shared car service will change over from OP to a large ...
We save water
27.09.2019
POAS is installing water saving parts in our apartments (bubble nozzle to kitchen and toilet tap as well as a constant pressure valve to showe...
Rent discount in Ritakatu
19.08.2019
In their meeting on 15th July 2019 the board of POAS has decided to decrease the rent of shared apartments in Ritakatu 13 A and C-buildings. T...
Apply shared apartment with friend!
29.05.2019
Living in a shared apartment comes with many good things. They are for example more affordable than studios, and you get to know new people! B...
Update your contact information
18.03.2019
Update your contact information in the tenant portal – you could win tickets to a Metallica concert! Up-to-date contact information helps us s...
POAS received an environmental certificate
18.01.2019
POAS has been granted the EcoCompass environmental certificate. In accordance with the national EcoCompass system, we have committed to develo...
No increases to rents in 2019!
12.12.2018
Due to careful financial management and good utilization rates, there is no need for rent increases in 2019. New rent invoices for 1st of Marc...
The Good Holiday Spirit collection
20.11.2018
The Good Holiday Spirit collection supports impoverished families during the holiday season. The collection is organized by the Finnish Red Cr...
Have you registered to tenant portal?
01.08.2018
POAS website was updated earlier in the spring. The website also has a new feature for tenants; asukassivusto.poas.fi -tenant portal. On tenan...
Building EcoCompass
26.07.2018
POAS is building EcoCompass and developing POAS´s environmental responsibility work. In addition of developing environmental responsibility, a...
Apply shared apartment with friend!
25.06.2018
Living in a shared apartment comes with many good things. They are for example more affordable than studios, and you get to know new people! B...
Tips for applying
25.06.2018
Were you selected to study? Specially during the summer apartments fill quickly, so now it is a good time to apply apartment from POAS! Read t...
POAS updates lease terms and conditions
14.06.2018
POAS will distribute the updated terms and conditions to tenants this week. Changes to the lease will be valid from 1st of January 2019. Chang...
Suggest a roommate to yourself!
11.05.2018
Do you live alone in a shared apartment or is your roommate moving away? – Suggest a roommate to yourself! As a tenant living in a POAS´s shar...
Register for POAS tenant portal!
02.05.2018
The POAS website was updated earlier in the spring. The website also has a new feature for tenants asukassivusto.poas.fi -tenant portal. On te...