Oliver Russell, a 24-year-old college student in Finland, bought a private island in March. Russell, who's half-American and half-Finnish, plans to build a cottage and a sauna on the land.

Helsinki | $1.03 million (€880,000) A renovated apartment in a 1907 Art Nouveau building This one-bedroom, two-bath apartment is on the fourth floor of a 1907 building in Punavuori, a hip ...

Centered on a blossom-shaped peninsula, Helsinki is as cool and calm as the slate-gray waters that surround it. For centuries, the city, like the rest of present-day Finland, was under foreign ...