Kauko Viitanen

Senior Advisor
Senior Advisor
T213 Built Environment

Kauko Viitanen is a professor emer. of real estate economics and valuation at the Dept. of Built Environment at Aalto University. Former associate prof. of land management, over 40 years work experience in public and private sector. Prof. Viitanen has been eg. chair of the Board of Real Estate Valuation at the Chamber of Commerce, the Finnish Association for Real Estate Valuation, the Doctoral Program for Built Environment, and the Com. 9, Valuation and Management of Real Estate at the International Federation of Surveyors. His interest areas are in real estate economics, valuation, land management, land policy, real estate development, plan implementation, property taxation, and future studies.

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Contact information

Phone number
+358505603873

Honors and awards

Coopted to the Finnish Academy of Technical Sciences, 2006

Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career Department of Built Environment Jan 2006

Knight of the White Rose (awarded by the President of Finland), 2007

Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career Department of Built Environment Jan 2007

Eminent member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (UK), FRICS, 2012

Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career Department of Built Environment Jan 2012

The Gold Medal for Life’s Work of Finland Chamber of Commerce, 2016

Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career Department of Built Environment Jan 2016

Honorary member of the Finnish Association for Real Estate Valuation, 2016

Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career Department of Built Environment Jan 2016

MIL:n pronssinen mitalli Maanmittausinsinoorien Liitto ry, Finland

Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career Department of Built Environment Jan 2000

Kirjoittajastipendi Maanmittaustieteiden seura, Finland

Award or honor granted for a specific work Department of Built Environment Jan 2013

Maanmittauslaitoksen kultainen ansiomerkki Maanmittauslaitos, Finland

Award or honor granted for academic or artistic career Department of Built Environment Jan 2002

Research groups

  • Real Estate, Senior Advisor

Publications

Monipuolistuva data ja tieto-ohjaus rakennetussa ympäristössä

Hannu Hyyppä, Marika Ahlavuo, Mika Lindholm, Arttu Julin, Kauko Viitanen, Petteri Alho, Matti Kurkela 2022 Maankäyttö

Views on the needs to develop the authorization and supervision activities of real estate valuers

Kauko Viitanen, Raisa Harju 2022 Proceedings of the XXVII FIG Congress, Warsaw, Poland, 11-15 September 2022

Data, digitaaliset työkalut ja tieto-ohjaus rakennus- ja kiinteistöalalla – big picture

Hannu Hyyppä, Marika Ahlavuo, Mika Lindholm, Arttu Julin, Kauko Viitanen 2021 Modus 3D Journal

Kiinteistöarvioinnin perusteet

Kauko Viitanen, Pekka Piispanen 2021

Lunastuslainsäädännön korvausperusteiden tarkistaminen

Ari Ekroos, Martti Häkkänen, Aleksi Heikkilä, Kauko Viitanen, Pentti Lähteenoja, Jari Salila, Sakari Haulos, Jaana Junnila, Irma Lähetkangas 2019

Impact of infill development on prices of existing apartments in Finnish urban neighbourhoods

Hannele Ahvenniemi, Kyösti Pennanen, Antti Knuuti, Anne Arvola, Kauko Viitanen 2018 International Journal of Strategic Property Management

Selvitys arvonleikkaussäännösten poistamisen vaikutuksista

Ari Ekroos, Eero Valtonen, Kauko Viitanen 2018

The distribution of perceived advantages and disadvantages of infill development among owners of a commonhold and its’ implications

Tuulia Puustinen, Kyösti Pennanen, Heidi Falkenbach, Kauko Viitanen 2018 Land Use Policy