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A brother and sister inherit 12 hectares of forest. One wants to sell, the other doesn't. What happens next isn't decided by a family agreement — it's decided by the Civil Law: a right of first refusal, a two-month window, and a redemption right that can unwind a deal already signed.
When you buy forest in Latvia, the right to hunt comes with the land — but on a typical small holding you cannot legally use it, and an existing hunting lease can quietly discount the price. Here is who holds the right, how the district and the contract work, who pays when deer strip your young pines, and what a buyer should check before signing.
The familiar narrative of a roughly even state-versus-private split does not match the VMD data. Measured by forest compartments, private ownership outweighs the state by a factor of 2.17. Within the private sector, concentration is extreme: the top 1% of owners hold 44% of the area. We break down ownership across 276,011 cadastres.
A VMD record for a single compartment carries more than 25 cryptic short-coded fields. Without a key, the document is unreadable. This guide walks through a real example — cadastre 62720050379 in Padures parish — and shows how those codes turn into a euro figure.
When selling standing timber, the effective tax rate is 7.5%. When selling forest land, it's 25.5% on the capital gain. The difference comes down to one legal question: what exactly are you selling. We break down both regimes with worked examples.
On the Latvian private forest market, every second unprepared buyer falls into at least one pitfall: overpays, inherits someone else's obligations, loses access. Ten concrete categories of risk with instructions on where to find them before signing.
Most Latvian forest owners lose money on tax not because of a high rate, but because they pick the wrong regime. Cirsma and kokmateriāli are legally distinct transactions with different deductions. Five real-world scenarios with numbers and statutory references.
About seven months are left before December 30, 2026. By that date every Latvian timber seller into the EU supply chain will need GPS coordinates of the felling site and a completed due diligence statement. What that means for a private owner.
99,489 ha of mature spruce in Latvia's private forests sit inside the bark beetle's working range. Regional damage rates differ by 4.6×. What VMD data shows and what owners need to do before spring.
Mežabirža is Latvia's electronic auction venue for cirsma (standing-timber sale). Marketing claims +15–50% over the reserve, but our read of public 2024–2025 data points to an average uplift closer to 10–20%. In liquid segments it is even lower. Here is where the platform genuinely works and where you simply pay to participate.
The calculator shows €100,000 standing, the buyer offers €58,000, and both are right. The gap between a theoretical valuation and a real transaction price is five concrete discounts. We break down each one with real numbers from a VMD sample.
VMD inventory data carries enough information for an owner to build a first-pass standing-timber value without an intermediary. This article walks through the G×H×f formula and where its limits lie.
