Liikuvamad

Liikuvamad is an Estonian term used in legal, economic and administrative contexts to refer to immovable or non-movable assets. The word is an adjective form related to liikuv, meaning mobile, but in practice liikuvamad denotes items that cannot be moved or are fixed to a location. In many contexts the standard term for this concept is kinnisvara, or real estate, which covers land and buildings; liikuvamad is sometimes encountered in texts discussing asset classification or property registries as a broader, less common phrasing.

In practice, immovable assets include land and permanent structures such as houses, farms, commercial buildings, and fixed installations attached to the land. The category is contrasted with movable assets, or liikuvad varad, which comprise items that can be relocated with relative ease, such as vehicles, machinery, furniture, and inventory. The distinction matters for purposes such as taxation, ownership transfer, and asset management, because immovable properties typically involve longer-term rights, transfer formalities, and different valuation approaches compared to movable assets.

Etymologically, liikuvamad derives from the adjective liikuv (mobile) with a plural ending, reflecting how Estonian grammar marks non-movable items as a distinct class in discourse. While liikuvamad can appear in some legal or academic texts, kinnisvara remains the predominant term in everyday Estonian for immovable property.