Michael Nurmi, story
he self-taught media guru with financial thinking.
Michael has always been interested in new innovations, to open up new ideas and make them profitable without prejudice. He began his career in the family business in the advertising and tourism industry. A few years later, he founded his own free newspaper, City & Archipelago News. The magazine was then, twenty years ago, innovative. A bilingual newspaper, all pages in color. The magazine is still published today and has expanded to the entire southern coastal area of Finland, from Lovisa to Mariehamn. In addition to the paper newspaper, he also started up a website at an early stage.
Michael was born and raised on Kimitoön and after living in Turku for 17 years, he returned to his home municipality when he started as editor-in-chief of Annonsbladet. In his job, he is happy to give young people the opportunity to try out different ideas in the media industry and he also often shares his own knowledge and experiences.
In addition to the media, Michael has always been interested in sporting events and over the years has created and developed several popular events in Kimito island. Sports clubs are also close to his heart and he himself is an active golfer. He likes to seek inspiration for his projects through travel and new taste experiences.
When the opportunity came to develop Lokal1 together with Kristian Lindroos, he did not hesitate. A new project with interesting dimensions is exactly what Michael is passionate about.
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Kristian Lindroos, story
A surveyor who decided to explore the Finnish real estate world in the 1990s.
The results were soon apparent and at the same time, the Internet began to make itself felt in several sectors. As a real estate agent in the Finnish archipelago, with clients in the faraway big cities, the Internet became an important tool for Kristian early on.
The first website www.kimitofast.fi was established in 1996, multilingual and with a map search function. In 1999, the Technical Research Centre approved a project for an Internet platform for location-based information under Kristian’s supervision. One area of application was real estate. The next Internet platform was an advertising and back office portal for Raseborgs Fastighetscentral. Over the following few years, the portal raised the company's efficiency to the absolute top in Finnish real estate business.
Over the years, there have also been other Internet projects in real estate brokerage. Kristian is also one of the few real estate agents in Finland who has all three national real estate qualifications, LKV (legalized real estate broker), YKV (senior real estate broker) and AKA (authorised assessor).
In 2019, Kristian's company signed a letter of intent to merge with Michael Nurmi's company. The rest is Local1 history.
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