After World War II and Soviet re-occupation of Latvia in 1944, large scale nationalization occurred in Latvia. Following the fall of communism in Latvia in 1989 and restoration of its independence, some of the formerly nationalized property have been subject to reprivatization and restored to previous owners, their heirs or other claimants.Bianca Elena Radu, THE RESTITUTION OF INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNAL PROPERTIES IN LATVIA AFTER 1990, international conference Challenges of the Knowledge Society (CKS), 2025
Around 20 laws regarding property restitution were adopted in Latvia.F. Foster, Restitution of Expropriated Property: Post-Soviet Lessons for Cuba, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, 1996, 34(3), pp. 621-657 (discussion of the Baltic restitution legislation)
Latvia endorsed the 2009 Terezin Declaration on righting the Holocaust-era injustices.."Latvian Holocaust survivors urge restitution of confiscated communal property". World Jewish Congress, 23 January 2014
Building properties According to the law "On the Denationalisation of Building Properties in the Republic of Latvia" (1994, with amendments),On the Denationalisation of Building Properties in the Republic of Latvia the following regulations were repealed:
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