m²cena is here — a smarter decision about buying an apartment
Buying a flat is one of the largest decisions of a life. It usually starts with a listing that offers a few photographs, a price, and very few answers. What does this building cost to run? Is the price reasonable? What is going on around it?
Most of those answers are public — just scattered across registers, tables and sites nobody opens twice. m²cena gathers them for the one flat you are looking at, so you can see, compare and understand before you sign up for the next twenty years.
What one report contains
Every report is divided into seven sections. Each answers a question you would ask anyway — only faster, and with numbers.
| Section | What it answers |
|---|---|
| Basic Information | What this flat actually is |
| Market Price | Whether the asking price is reasonable |
| Listing Activity | How long it has been up, and whether the price fell |
| Market Activity | How often flats here are bought and sold |
| Heating & Maintenance | What winter and the monthly bills will cost |
| Text & Image Analysis | What the listing does not say outright |
| Environment & Daily Life | What your day-to-day here would look like |
How it works
- Paste the listing link. Nothing to type by hand — the address, the floor area and the rest come from the listing itself. Both ss.com and city24.lv work.
- Get the report in seconds. Every section in one place, instead of a search across ten different sites.
- Compare options side by side. Two or three flats in one view, without a spreadsheet. Saved analyses stay under My Analyses, and each one can be downloaded as a PDF.
Not every m² costs the same. Two flats of the same size in the same district can differ by tens of thousands — depending on the building, the floor, the heating and what surrounds it.
What you get out of it
Clarity. You know whether the price is reasonable rather than guessing. The valuation rests on registered transactions in the nearest area and segment, not on asking prices.
Something to negotiate with. You can talk to an owner or an agent in numbers rather than impressions — the building's condition grade, the land status, how long this listing has already been up.
Fewer surprises. The heating bill is not something to discover in February, and the annual property tax is not something to work out on a napkin.
Speed. What takes an evening of register-hopping by hand takes seconds here — and it takes them again for the next flat, and the one after that.
What's coming
The platform keeps growing:
- Listing History (coming soon) — a listing's full record: when it went up, how many times the price changed and by how much.
- More data about buildings and districts in every report — register data on the building, the land and the taxes has already landed, and that continues.
- Easier comparison — adding flats to a comparison straight from a list.
Follow the news here. In the meantime, look at the sample report or learn how to make your first analysis.