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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.
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.
After the largest forest-land deal in Latvian history, IKEA-linked Ingka Investments now holds about 230,000 ha of Latvian forest. Separately, Inter IKEA bought roughly 24,000 ha in the Baltics. Here is what happened and what it actually changes for buyers and sellers.
