Generally known is that in any society, the individual has to five basic needs - food, clothing, health care, compulsory education and habitation. Without the residential warm, safe and affordable rooms is difficult to imagine human existence. In Latvia, as well as it’s in the capital Riga a significant portion of the housing is used in a standard apartment house, so it could be considered that society most widespread housing type of property is an apartment property. Most of this sector property is built until 1991, which affects both in its technical condition and old-fashioned layout and its use can traditions. In connection with the fact that the housing stock has become obsolete and requires a renewal processes both to improve the quality of life of citizens and building technical advancement, it is necessary, attracting a variety of sources of financing to carry out renovations. However, before proceeding with major building renovation projects, we are faced with a rather large the opposition to the restoration work, thus need to take a standard residential building owners comprehension a study on the technical condition of buildings and their understanding of the building renovation issues. In 2016 the project "Climate impacts, adaptation to climate change and flexibility in the socioeconomic assessment of the value of apartment blocks in Riga and Latvian" ("Riga apartment houses, neighborhoods Sustainable Development") in the course was conducted in apartment buildings live, a survey with the aim to explore the apartment owners understanding of their own residence - apartment buildings and architecture, technical equipment, engineering, operations and maintenance of the need for environmental and health issues. A similar study was conducted in 2005. In turn, this study resulted in a typical apartment building owners' understanding of the technical condition of buildings, energy performance of buildings and building value increase development comparison period from 2005 to 2016, the change in level.