[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":615},["ShallowReactive",2],{"content:cities:en":3,"content:lexikon:antstolio-aresto-patikra:en":18,"content:services:en":50,"content:lexikon:en":240},[4],{"slug":5,"name":6,"state":7,"facts":8},"vilnius","Vilnius","Lithuania",[9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17],"Vilnius is Lithuania's capital and its largest city, in the south-east of the country, where the Vilnia runs into the Neris.","Its Old Town is a UNESCO World Heritage site and remains one of the largest medieval centres still standing in this part of Europe.","Newcomers learn the city as a set of districts rather than as a grid: the centre and the Old Town, Naujamiestis, Šnipiškės with the business towers across the river, Antakalnis, Žvėrynas, and the low-rise southern district of Naujininkai.","The airport sits on the southern edge of the city, a few kilometres out from the centre, with a short rail link and city buses to the main railway station; the railway and coach stations stand next door to one another.","The A1 motorway runs to Kaunas and the port of Klaipėda, the A2 heads towards Panevėžys, and the European-gauge Rail Baltica corridor, which will tie Lithuania into the western European rail network, is still under construction.","Lithuania belongs to the European Union and to NATO and its currency is the euro, so a flat here is bought and sold in euros, under European Union law, by residents and non-residents alike.","Work in the city concentrates in financial technology, the service centres international companies run here, laser and optics manufacturing, and the life sciences.","Vilnius University has taught since the sixteenth century, and several younger institutions keep a steady population of students and recent graduates in the city.","Most buyers are Lithuanians, families returning from years abroad among them, alongside people from other European Union countries who move here for the technology and service sectors.",{"slug":19,"title":20,"metaTitle":21,"metaDescription":22,"excerpt":23,"toc":24,"body":40,"updated":41,"related":42},"antstolio-aresto-patikra","Checking seizures and encumbrances","Seizure, mortgage, bailiff: how to check a flat","How to check a Lithuanian flat for seizures, mortgages, servitudes and leases before you pay: which registers to read, when to read them, and what to do if you find something.","An encumbrance on a flat is common and not always an obstacle. It becomes one when it is discovered after the money has moved. The check takes minutes and you can run it yourself.",[25,28,31,34,37],{"id":26,"text":27},"yourself","Why you check it yourself",{"id":29,"text":30},"which-entries","Which entries matter",{"id":32,"text":33},"where","Where to look",{"id":35,"text":36},"when","When to check: more than once",{"id":38,"text":39},"if-found","What to do if you find something","\u003Cp>An encumbrance on a flat is common and very often no obstacle at all: most flats on the resale market are mortgaged to a bank, and that is ordinary. It becomes an obstacle when it is discovered after the money has moved. The check takes a few minutes, and you can run it yourself without asking the seller.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Ch2 id=\"yourself\">Why you check it yourself\u003C\u002Fh2>\u003Cp>Before certifying the deed \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fen\u002Fbuyers-guide\u002Fnotaro-veiksmas\">the notary\u003C\u002Fa> checks the data, and that is the strongest protection in the whole purchase. The difficulty is that the notary arrives last — by then a reservation fee has been paid, possibly an advance, and decisions have been taken about your money and your life.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>So the check runs in two stages: the buyer checks first, as soon as a flat starts to look right, and the notary checks again before signature. The first stage is the cheapest and fastest piece of due diligence available anywhere in a purchase.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Ch2 id=\"which-entries\">Which entries matter\u003C\u002Fh2>\u003Cp>The entries that matter to a buyer are these:\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cul>\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>seizure\u003C\u002Fstrong> — a restriction on disposing of the property imposed by a bailiff, a court or another authority; a seized flat will not be certified for sale;\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>mortgage\u003C\u002Fstrong> — security for a credit obligation; not an obstacle in itself, but the transaction needs a clear mechanism for discharging it;\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>servitude\u003C\u002Fstrong> — someone else's right to use the property in a particular way, more often relevant to land but it occurs with buildings;\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>usufruct, loan for use, a right of residence for life\u003C\u002Fstrong> — rights letting another person use the flat after your purchase;\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>a registered lease\u003C\u002Fstrong> — the tenant stays after the owner changes;\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>conditions and pending proceedings\u003C\u002Fstrong>, where somebody has registered them.\u003C\u002Fli>\u003C\u002Ful>\u003Cp>Look at the number of owners as well. Where there are several, all of them belong in the transaction; where the property is joint matrimonial property, a spouse's consent is needed; where a share is being sold, co-owners may hold a pre-emption right over it.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Ch2 id=\"where\">Where to look\u003C\u002Fh2>\u003Cp>The main source is the \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fen\u002Fbuyers-guide\u002Fregistru-centro-israsas\">Real Property Register extract\u003C\u002Fa>, which shows both rights and restrictions. A few others sit next to it:\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cul>\u003Cli>the Register of Property Seizure Acts, where seizure acts are recorded;\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>the register of legal entities, if the seller is a company: whether it is active, who manages it, whether it is in bankruptcy or restructuring;\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>published notices of enforced sales, where there is real reason for concern;\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>a certificate from the building's manager about \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fen\u002Fbuyers-guide\u002Fbendrijos-ir-administravimas\">arrears\u003C\u002Fa> — not a register, but it does the same job.\u003C\u002Fli>\u003C\u002Ful>\u003Cp>An address or a unique number is enough, and register data are obtained through self-service after logging in with an electronic identification means.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Ch2 id=\"when\">When to check: more than once\u003C\u002Fh2>\u003Cp>An extract shows the position only at the moment it was ordered. A seizure can be registered on any day, including between the preliminary agreement and the deed. So the check happens at three points at least: before \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fen\u002Fbuyers-guide\u002Frezervavimo-sutartis\">the reservation\u003C\u002Fa>, before any significant payment, and on the eve of signature.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The most exposed stretch is between the transfer of money and the register entry naming the new owner. That is what the safeguards exist for: the notary's deposit account, or the payment sequence the bank imposes. Which safeguard applies is agreed in the \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fen\u002Fbuyers-guide\u002Fpreliminarioji-sutartis\">preliminary agreement\u003C\u002Fa>, not on signing day.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Ch2 id=\"if-found\">What to do if you find something\u003C\u002Fh2>\u003Cp>The first step is not to walk away but to read the entry properly: who registered it, on what basis, and how far it reaches. A mortgage to a bank and a bailiff's seizure are entries of very different weight, and they call for different answers.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The second step is to ask the seller how and when it will be removed, and to have that written into the contract as a condition without which the transaction does not proceed. The third is to put the extract in front of a notary or a lawyer before any payment. If the seller will not answer clearly, or offers to sort it out later, the question has stopped being legal and become a decision.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This article is general information and is not legal advice. What a particular entry means for your transaction can only be assessed by a notary or a lawyer with the full extract and the documents in front of them.\u003C\u002Fp>","2026-10-05",{"services":43,"lexikon":46},[44,45],"naujos-statybos-butai","namo-aplinka",[47,48,49],"registru-centro-israsas","notaro-veiksmas","hipoteka-ir-paskola",[51,114,177],{"slug":44,"title":52,"teaser":53,"metaTitle":54,"metaDescription":55,"h1":56,"intro":57,"forWhom":58,"includes":63,"howItWorks":79,"model":92,"faq":95,"related":111},"New-build apartments","What the building on Gerosios Vilties g. 27 is actually made of: dark clinker brick, rendered panels, stair towers glazed top to bottom, timber battens on the balconies.","New-build apartments in Vilnius — Gerosios Vilties g. 27","A new-build in Vilnius you can walk up to: clinker brick and render in one façade, fully glazed stair towers, timber balcony battens. Only what already stands.","New-build apartments in Vilnius: what the building on Gerosios Vilties street is made of","A new-build apartment in Vilnius is usually sold from a drawing. The materials come as a list, and there is no way to check the list against anything. This building is the exception, because it is finished, handed over and lived in: it has stood through more than one winter, so you can walk up to the façade and look at how a brick corner is tied and what the joint between two different materials looks like after a few years of rain.\n\nThis page covers what you see from the street — the façade, the stair towers and the balconies. These are the parts that either age well over a decade or start costing money. You will not find prices, availability or finish levels here. The developer has not confirmed them, and guessing about an apartment somebody is about to buy is not a service to anyone.",[59,60,61,62],"Buyers comparing several Vilnius projects who want at least one of them to be a building they can stand in front of.","Anyone who cares less about how a façade looks in year one than about how it looks in year ten.","Investors who count the purchase price and the cost of keeping the façade in that condition afterwards.","Buyers from abroad who are in Vilnius rarely and want to inspect the building themselves, without an agent.",[64,67,70,73,76],{"title":65,"text":66},"Dark clinker brick","The main façade material is dark clinker brick, fired hot enough that it takes in almost no water and does not spall after frost. It is never painted and does not need to be: the colour is in the brick, not in a coating on top of it. Rain darkens the wall, drying lightens it again, and that is the whole of its behaviour. Two things are worth looking at up close — whether the joints hold an even width, and how the corner of the building is bonded, because a corner is where you see whether the brickwork was laid by someone who knows the trade.",{"title":68,"text":69},"Rendered panels between the brick","Some planes are not brick but light beige render. That is not a saving made at the expense of clinker; it is a second material doing a different job. Render lightens the mass and separates one part of the long volume from the next, while brick stays where the façade takes the most punishment — at ground level, around the entrances, on the corners. Render also ages differently: it stays clean as long as someone repaints it on schedule, which makes its condition the quickest read on whether the building is being looked after.",{"title":71,"text":72},"Stair towers glazed top to bottom","The stair towers are glazed from the ground floor to the roofline, with no blind sections. Daylight therefore reaches every landing, and the stairs are not the dim corridor where a lamp burns at midday. After dark the same decision works the other way round: the stairs glow from inside and the building is recognisable from the street before you are close enough to read the number. The specifics — glazing units, ventilation, heating of the stair core — are in the building documents, and that is where to ask rather than inferring them from a photograph.",{"title":74,"text":75},"Timber battens on the balconies","Vertical timber battens close the edges of the balconies. They do three jobs at once: they screen the balcony from the street without walling it off, they filter the sun, and they lift the dark brick so the building does not read as closed from the pavement. Timber is also the part of a façade that asks for the most attention, since it has to be treated from time to time. After a few years the tone of those battens tells you plainly whether the building has a working maintenance routine.",{"title":77,"text":78},"Concrete balcony slabs","The balconies are separate concrete slabs projecting from the face of the wall. They give the building its rhythm: dark brick, a pale slab edge, timber behind it. It is a construction you can read at a glance, which also means you can check it — from below you see the underside of the slabs, the fall and where water drips clear. How the slabs are thermally separated, and how the balconies are waterproofed, is answered by the project documents rather than by your eyes, and asking for that is entirely normal.",[80,83,86,89],{"title":81,"text":82},"Start at a corner, not at the general view","The general view flatters almost any new building. Walk to a corner instead and look at how two planes of brickwork meet, whether the joints run as one line, and whether any bricks at ground level are chipped. Two metres of corner says more about the quality of the masonry than the whole elevation.",{"title":84,"text":85},"Compare the two materials on the same wall","That is easy here, because brick and render stand side by side. Look at the junction: is the line straight, is the edge of the render intact, are there run-off stains under the window sills? One building on one day shows you how both materials behave under identical conditions.",{"title":87,"text":88},"Step into the stair core by day, come back at night","By day, see how much light the glazing actually delivers to the landings and whether you can use the stairs without switching anything on. At night, from the street, you see the other half of the same decision: how far the stair core lights the pavement and whether every section is working. Two short visits, and there is nothing left to ask about this detail.",{"title":90,"text":91},"Look up at the balconies and read the timber","The tone of the battens is a thermometer for the building's upkeep. An even tone means the timber is being treated; bleached and grey patches mean nobody has touched it since handover. The same glance tells you whether the balconies are in use — plants, furniture, laundry out to dry. A lived-in balcony is the most reliable sign that this is a building people live in rather than a row of empty investments.",{"title":93,"text":94},"How an apartment price is put together in Lithuania","No price is published on this page, and none will be invented. Numbers come from the developer, not from a website, and a stale number is worse for a buyer than no number at all. Apartment prices in Vilnius also move within a single season, and new-builds are advertised differently — some by the square metre, some as one figure with a parking space inside it. What is worth knowing is how that sum is assembled, because then you can compare one offer with another instead of staring at a single number.\n\nThe base is always the same: a price per square metre multiplied by the area of the apartment. What moves it is everything that differs almost section by section in Vilnius — the floor, the orientation, the area of the balcony or terrace, and the level of finish the apartment is handed over in. A parking space and a basement store are usually priced separately, outside the apartment figure, so two offers cannot be compared on one number until you know what that number includes. Check which area is being used, too: total and usable floor area are measured differently in Lithuania, and the same price per square metre shifts with the definition.\n\nThen there is everything that is not the price of the apartment. The notary's fee for drawing up the purchase contract follows the approved scale and depends on the value of the transaction. Registrų centras, the state register, charges separately for registering the title and for issuing an extract. With a mortgage, add the bank's arrangement costs, the valuation and the registration of the charge. Later come the recurring items: management of the common parts, upkeep of the grounds, and, above a certain value of property, real estate tax. No rates or thresholds are quoted here — they are set by law and they change. Take the figures from your notary, your bank and the State Tax Inspectorate on the day the deal is actually happening.",[96,99,102,105,108],{"q":97,"a":98},"How does a clinker façade differ from a rendered one after ten years?","In how much upkeep it asks for. The colour of a clinker brick is in the brick, so the wall is never painted: it darkens in the rain, lightens as it dries, and that is all. A rendered façade looks good for as long as it is repainted on schedule, and in time it needs attention under the sills and at ground level. Both are on this building, in one elevation, so you can compare them in a single visit.",{"q":100,"a":101},"Why use clinker and render on the same façade at all?","Because they do different jobs. Clinker goes where the wall takes the most weather and the most human contact — ground level, entrances, corners. The rendered planes lighten the mass and break one part of a long volume from the next, so that a continuous building does not read as one dark wall from the street.",{"q":103,"a":104},"What does a fully glazed stair tower actually give you?","Daylight on every landing, and a building you can recognise after dark. The stairs are not the dim corridor with a lamp burning at noon, and from the street the glowing verticals identify the house. The technical side — glazing units, ventilation, how the stair core is heated — is written into the building documents, so ask the developer rather than reading it off a photograph.",{"q":106,"a":107},"What does an apartment here cost?","Prices are deliberately not published on this site. What this page does instead is set out how an apartment price is assembled in Lithuania and which costs sit on top of it: the notary, the state register, bank costs with a mortgage, and the running charge for the common parts and the grounds. With that list you can read any offer yourself. The figure itself comes from the developer.",{"q":109,"a":110},"Can I look at the building without an appointment?","The outside, yes. Gerosios Vilties street is an ordinary Vilnius street: the façade, the brick corners, the glazing of the stair towers and the grounds are all visible at any hour, with no phone call needed. Nobody will let you into the stair cores or the apartments unannounced, because people live there.",[112,48,47,113],"buto-plotai","nekilnojamojo-turto-mokesciai",{"slug":45,"title":115,"teaser":116,"metaTitle":117,"metaDescription":118,"h1":119,"intro":120,"forWhom":121,"includes":126,"howItWorks":142,"model":155,"faq":158,"related":174},"The grounds","Hydrangeas along the whole length of the building, red-leaved maples, mown lawn, paved paths and lamps that come on at dusk — the part of a building that appears after handover.","The grounds at Gerosios Vilties g. 27 — and who keeps them","Landscaped grounds at a new Vilnius building: a hydrangea border, maples and young trees, lawn, paved paths, lighting — the fairest test of a developer.","The grounds: what grows on Gerosios Vilties street and who keeps it that way","Anyone can photograph a façade well, and in a visualisation the hydrangeas are always in bloom. The grounds are the part of a building you cannot buy along with the apartment: they do not arrive on handover day, they arrive afterwards, and they survive only if someone stays responsible for them. That makes landscaping the fairest test of a developer there is — not a promise but a result, visible a few years after the builders left.\n\nAt the building on Gerosios Vilties g. 27 all of this is already there to be looked at, with no appointment: an unbroken border of white and pink hydrangeas running the length of the building, red-leaved maples, younger trees among them, mown lawn, paved paths and lamps that come on at dusk. This page is about what those things mean and how to read grounds like these on a first visit.",[122,123,124,125],"Buyers who want to know how a building will look in a few years rather than in its first week.","Families, because a child and a dog live in the courtyard rather than in the apartment.","Anyone comparing several Vilnius projects and looking for a criterion a brochure cannot improve.","Future owners who want to know in advance who maintains the grounds in Lithuania and who pays for it.",[127,130,133,136,139],{"title":128,"text":129},"A hydrangea border the length of the building","An unbroken row of white and pink hydrangeas runs along the building — not a few shrubs by the entrance, but one continuous band following the whole line of the façade. Hydrangea is a demanding plant: it wants water every dry week, the right soil and pruning each year, and without them it runs to leggy growth and stops flowering within two seasons. That is exactly why it is a good sign. A hydrangea border in flower at a building of this age means somebody really does water and prune it, rather than having planted it once for the photographs.",{"title":131,"text":132},"Red-leaved maples and young trees","Between the hydrangeas and the paths stand red-leaved maples, which turn the whole green line red in autumn, together with younger trees — a ginkgo among them. That list is a long-term decision: neither a maple nor a ginkgo is planted for the look of a first season, they are planted for what the grounds will be in ten or twenty years. The condition of a young tree is something you can check yourself: look at the stakes and at the mulched ring around the trunk. A tree tied and mulched properly is a tree somebody inspects.",{"title":134,"text":135},"Lawn and paved paths","The lawn around the building is mown, with no bald patches, and the footpaths are paved and run where people actually walk — from the entrances to the street and along the building. That is the thing to check: if a second, shorter route has been worn into the grass beside a paved path, the plan and real life did not agree. It is also worth looking at the lawn edges along the kerbs, since edges are where neglect shows up first.",{"title":137,"text":138},"Lighting after dark","The grounds are lit by stele-type designer lamps — vertical, throwing light low, with no glare into your eyes. Their job is simple: show the path and the entrance, not flood the whole courtyard like a car park. There is only one way to check it, and that is to arrive after sunset. You then also see whether every lamp is working, because dead bulbs are the most common sign that nobody is in charge of the grounds any more.",{"title":140,"text":141},"The retaining wall and the address","A concrete retaining wall holds the slope beside the building, and at the entrance it carries the metal letters GEROSIOS VILTIES and the number 27. That is plain but practical: a first-time visitor and a courier both find the building from the street. Next to it is the ramp down to the underground car park, marked ĮVAŽIAVIMAS, which is what keeps cars under the building rather than parked among the hydrangeas.",[143,146,149,152],{"title":144,"text":145},"Come in late summer, not in spring","In spring any set of grounds looks good: the turf has just been laid and everything is new. The interesting moments are August after a dry week, or autumn after heavy rain. That is when you see whether the hydrangeas have been watered, whether the lawn has burnt off in patches and where water stands once the rain stops.",{"title":147,"text":148},"Look at the edges, not the middle","The middle of a lawn looks healthy almost always. Maintenance shows at the edges: along kerbs, around the bases of the lamps, at the junctions between paths, and in the rings around the trees. If the edges are trimmed and grass is not growing up through the paving, the grounds have someone looking after them.",{"title":150,"text":151},"Find the bin store","The bin store is the corner of a courtyard nobody photographs, which is why it tells the truth. Look at whether it has its own enclosure and a hard base, whether it is overflowing, and how far it is from the entrances. This one corner describes the daily life of a building better than any shot of the façade.",{"title":153,"text":154},"Come back after dark","A second visit takes fifteen minutes and answers questions that never come up in daylight: is the path to the entrance lit the whole way, does the light glare into the ground-floor windows, is every lamp working, does the stair core glow from inside? After two visits there is nothing left to ask about these grounds.",{"title":156,"text":157},"Who maintains the grounds in Lithuania once the building is handed over","Finished grounds do not keep themselves. In Lithuania the common parts of a building — the stair cores, the lift, the services and the land around the building — are maintained either by an owners' association set up by the residents or by a managing company under contract with them. That is where it is decided who mows the lawn, who waters the hydrangeas and who replaces a dead bulb in a lamp.\n\nThe owners pay for it, through a monthly charge usually apportioned by the floor area of each apartment. Before buying, ask three specific questions: who manages the common parts in this building, what the monthly charge covers, and whether the planted grounds and their watering are inside that figure. This is not a detail. Grounds that nobody is contractually responsible for return to bare ground within a couple of seasons, and the first thing to show it is the hydrangea border.\n\nThis is also why a finished building is easier for a buyer than a project. In a project the planting is a layer on a drawing; here it already has a history — the trees have taken, the lawn is alive, the paths have been used, the lamps are either working or they are not. None of it has to be taken on trust from a website. All of it can be checked on the day you come to Gerosios Vilties street.",[159,162,165,168,171],{"q":160,"a":161},"Why do the grounds say more about a developer than the façade does?","Because the façade arrives on handover day and the grounds arrive afterwards. Hydrangeas in flower, a mown lawn and trees that have taken all mean someone stayed at the building and kept working once the construction was signed off. It is the one criterion that cannot be drawn in a visualisation or rushed into shape the week before a viewing.",{"q":163,"a":164},"Who waters the hydrangeas, and what does that cost a resident?","The grounds are kept by a managing company or by the owners' association, and the owners pay through a monthly charge, usually apportioned by floor area. No figure is quoted here, because it depends on the contract for the particular building rather than on a general rule. Before signing, ask what the charge covers and whether the planted grounds and their watering are included.",{"q":166,"a":167},"Is there underground parking at the building?","There is a ramp down to an underground car park, marked ĮVAŽIAVIMAS beside the building, which is what keeps cars off the planted courtyard. How many spaces there are, how they are allocated and where visitors park are questions for the developer: we have not verified those figures, so they are not on this page.",{"q":169,"a":170},"What does this particular planting tell you?","How demanding it is. Hydrangea needs water and annual pruning, so an unbroken border still in flower is evidence of maintenance. A red-leaved maple and a ginkgo are not bought for a first season but for what the grounds look like in a decade and beyond. Nobody planning to walk away after handover orders a planting list like that.",{"q":172,"a":173},"Can I walk around the grounds before buying?","The outside, at any time: this is an ordinary Vilnius street, and the paths along the building and the planted border are in plain view with no appointment. Nobody will let you into the stair cores or the apartments unannounced, because people live there and their homes are not an exhibit.",[175,176,112,47],"bendrijos-ir-administravimas","pridavimo-aktas",{"slug":178,"title":179,"teaser":180,"metaTitle":181,"metaDescription":182,"h1":183,"intro":184,"forWhom":185,"includes":190,"howItWorks":206,"model":219,"faq":222,"related":238},"vieta-ir-susisiekimas","Location and transport","Gerosios Vilties street: low-rise Vilnius, trees and hills around it, with the business district towers and the TV tower on the skyline.","Gerosios Vilties street — the location and getting there","Where the building stands: Gerosios Vilties g. 27, Vilnius. What surrounds it, how to get there, and why the address matches the developer's own.","Apartments on Gerosios Vilties street: what kind of place this is and how to get here","Materials in a building can be chosen; a location cannot. It is what it is, and it does not change after the purchase. This building stands on Gerosios Vilties street, in a residential part of Vilnius: low-rise, generously planted between the houses, with the ground running in hills. From the air the whole character of it reads at once — low buildings and trees in the foreground, and on the skyline the towers of the Vilnius business district together with the Vilnius TV tower.\n\nThis page is about how to judge a location like that in a single visit, and about what the address itself says about the developer. Gerosios Vilties g. 27 is more than the address of the building: the company that built it, UAB Savo investicija, is registered on the same street. That is one of the few things about any developer you can verify for free, without asking them anything.",[186,187,188,189],"Buyers who have not seen the building yet and want to understand the setting before the viewing.","Anyone who commutes into the centre and knows the difference between a map and the morning peak.","Buyers from abroad, for whom the names of Vilnius districts still mean nothing.","Anyone who checks, before any payment, that a company really works at the address it prints.",[191,194,197,200,203],{"title":192,"text":193},"Gerosios Vilties street","Gerosios Vilties is an ordinary city street with pavements, public transport and low buildings on both sides. Number 27 sits in it as part of the street, not inside a gated compound, which is why the building can be looked at at any hour and with nobody letting you in. It also makes the place easy to judge honestly — what you see when you arrive is the everyday version, not a version arranged for a viewing.",{"title":195,"text":196},"Around the building: low-rise and green","The district around is residential and small in scale — not glass quarters but low buildings with trees between them and open green gaps. The practical side of that is straightforward: fewer people per square metre, room to pass on the pavement, more sky between the roofs. The other side is just as honest. This is a district where people live rather than go out, and it should not be expected to be anything else.",{"title":198,"text":199},"The ground and the skyline","The land runs in hills, so the view changes within a few hundred metres. From the air you see what defines the place: low buildings and greenery close in, and on the horizon the towers of the Vilnius business district alongside the Vilnius TV tower. Two recognisable landmarks, and they tell you immediately which side of the city you are on.",{"title":201,"text":202},"Getting here","By car, along Gerosios Vilties street, with a ramp down to the underground car park at the building marked ĮVAŽIAVIMAS. By public transport, city routes run along the street — but check the numbers and the intervals in the Vilnius public transport timetables on the day you travel, because routes change and a stale number on a website is worse than none. The walk to the nearest stop is worth pacing out yourself as well.",{"title":204,"text":205},"The address on the wall and the address in the register","At the entrance the concrete retaining wall carries the metal letters GEROSIOS VILTIES and the number 27. The same address appears in the developer's own details: UAB Savo investicija, registered at Gerosios Vilties g. 27-131, Vilnius, company code 304499183, VAT number LT100011304015. A company whose registered office is in the building it put up can be verified by the simplest method available — turning up and looking.",[207,210,213,216],{"title":208,"text":209},"Come on a weekday morning","A map shows distance, not the time you will spend in traffic. Drive the route you would actually drive every day, and do it in the first half of the day. One such trip tells you more about the location than any table of minutes, because the minutes depend on your route rather than on the building.",{"title":211,"text":212},"Pace the walk to the stop","Walk to the nearest public transport stop and watch what the walk is like: is there a pavement the whole way, do you have to cross the street, is it lit after dark? In winter and carrying shopping, the same few hundred metres are not the line on the map.",{"title":214,"text":215},"Look at what could appear nearby","Look past the building at the open plots around it: what is growing there, what stands there, how high the street builds at the moment. If the view from your apartment depends on the neighbouring plot, that is a question for the city's planning documents rather than for a salesperson — and it is information you can obtain yourself.",{"title":217,"text":218},"Check the address in the register","Company code 304499183 and VAT number LT100011304015 are in the Lithuanian register of legal entities and in freely available business databases. Confirm for yourself that the registered office really is on Gerosios Vilties street. For a specific apartment, an extract from Registrų centras does the same job: it shows the owner and any encumbrances, and it is the only document worth trusting on that question.",{"title":220,"text":221},"Why the address is also a legal argument in this purchase","To a buyer an address usually means travel time. In a transaction it means one more thing: the chance to check the other side without asking them. The building stands at Gerosios Vilties g. 27, and the same street appears in the registered details of UAB Savo investicija. That overlap can be confirmed in two moves — come to the street, then open the register entry.\n\nThe order of checks in Lithuania is always the same. The company first: code 304499183 and VAT number LT100011304015 in the register of legal entities show that the company is active and where its registered office is. The property second: an extract from Registrų centras shows who owns the apartment, the state of its registration, and whether there is any seizure or mortgage on it. Only then come the documents you sign and the notary before whom the contract is made.\n\nWhat stays off this page is stated plainly. No prices, no availability, no finish levels and no phase number, because the developer has not confirmed them. No postcode either: ours and the register's differ, and a company's registered details are not a place for guesswork. There is a second project of the same name elsewhere in Vilnius, but how the two relate has not been confirmed, so this page is about the building on Gerosios Vilties street and nothing else.",[223,226,229,232,235],{"q":224,"a":225},"Where exactly is the building?","Gerosios Vilties g. 27, Vilnius. It is an ordinary city street with public transport and low buildings on both sides. You will recognise the building from the metal letters GEROSIOS VILTIES and the number 27 on the concrete retaining wall by the entrance.",{"q":227,"a":228},"What is the area around the building like?","Residential and small in scale: low buildings, plenty of trees and open green gaps, with the ground running in hills. Living here means more quiet and more sky between the roofs than in the new glass quarters. It is not a district of nightlife or offices, and its value is in the everyday.",{"q":230,"a":231},"How do I get there by public transport?","City routes run along Gerosios Vilties street, and the nearest stop is within walking distance of the building. Route numbers and intervals are deliberately not listed here: they change, and a stale number only misleads. Check the Vilnius public transport timetables on the day you travel.",{"q":233,"a":234},"What can you see from the building and from above?","Close in, the low buildings of the district, trees and hills. From the air, two recognisable Vilnius landmarks on the horizon: the towers of the business district and the Vilnius TV tower. What a particular apartment looks out on depends on its side and its floor, so that is a question for the viewing rather than for a website.",{"q":236,"a":237},"Why are the developer's address and the building on the same street?","Because UAB Savo investicija is registered at Gerosios Vilties g. 27-131, Vilnius — the address where the building stands. For a buyer that is useful: company code 304499183 and VAT number LT100011304015 can be checked in the register, and the registered office can be checked by walking down the street. Overlaps that convenient are rare in a property purchase.",[19,47,239,48],"rezervavimo-sutartis",[241,266,291,317,327,352,376,401,425,449,473,497,521,544,568,592],{"slug":175,"title":242,"metaTitle":243,"metaDescription":244,"excerpt":245,"toc":246,"updated":41,"related":262},"Building management and common costs","Building management: association, agreement or administrator","How a Lithuanian apartment building is run: owners' association, joint activity agreement or municipal administrator; common costs, accumulated funds, and decisions by vote.","Buying a flat also buys a share of common property and the duty to look after it with the neighbours. Which of the three legal routes your building uses is answered by one certificate — worth seeing before the purchase.",[247,250,253,256,259],{"id":248,"text":249},"what-is-common","What is common in the building",{"id":251,"text":252},"three-routes","Three ways a building is run",{"id":254,"text":255},"the-costs","Common costs and the accumulated fund",{"id":257,"text":258},"decisions","How decisions are taken",{"id":260,"text":261},"before-buying","What to check before buying",{"services":263,"lexikon":264},[44,45],[112,265,113],"statybos-defektu-garantija",{"slug":267,"title":268,"metaTitle":269,"metaDescription":270,"excerpt":271,"toc":272,"updated":41,"related":288},"uzsienieciui-pirkti-lietuvoje","Buying in Lithuania as a foreigner","Buying a flat in Lithuania as a foreigner: what is needed","What a foreign buyer needs for a Lithuanian flat: identification and personal code, legalised documents, a bank account, source-of-funds checks, and buying by proxy.","A non-resident can buy a flat in Lithuania — the restrictions people have heard about apply to agricultural and forest land, not to flats. The hard part is paperwork and banking logistics, not the right to buy.",[273,276,279,282,285],{"id":274,"text":275},"is-it-allowed","Whether it is allowed, and where the limits are",{"id":277,"text":278},"identification","Identification and the personal code",{"id":280,"text":281},"documents","Documents issued abroad",{"id":283,"text":284},"banking","A bank account and the source of funds",{"id":286,"text":287},"by-proxy","Buying without travelling",{"services":289,"lexikon":290},[44,45],[48,47,49],{"slug":292,"title":293,"metaTitle":294,"metaDescription":295,"excerpt":296,"toc":297,"updated":41,"related":313},"kadastriniai-matavimai","Cadastral measurement","Cadastral measurement: when a flat becomes an object","Cadastral measurement and the cadastral file in Lithuania: who measures a flat, when it becomes a separate registered object, and why no deed is possible before that.","A flat exists in law not when its walls are up but when it has been measured and registered as a separate object. That threshold explains much of how a new-build purchase is sequenced.",[298,301,304,307,310],{"id":299,"text":300},"what-it-is","What cadastral measurement is",{"id":302,"text":303},"who-measures","Who measures, and what the buyer should ask for",{"id":305,"text":306},"becoming-object","When the flat becomes a separate object",{"id":308,"text":309},"mismatches","Differences in the final figure",{"id":311,"text":312},"later-changes","Alterations after the fact",{"services":314,"lexikon":315},[44,45],[112,47,316],"preliminarioji-sutartis",{"slug":19,"title":20,"metaTitle":21,"metaDescription":22,"excerpt":23,"toc":318,"updated":41,"related":324},[319,320,321,322,323],{"id":26,"text":27},{"id":29,"text":30},{"id":32,"text":33},{"id":35,"text":36},{"id":38,"text":39},{"services":325,"lexikon":326},[44,45],[47,48,49],{"slug":328,"title":329,"metaTitle":330,"metaDescription":331,"excerpt":332,"toc":333,"updated":41,"related":349},"pirkimo-islaidos","Costs of purchase","Costs of purchase: what is paid besides the price","What a flat purchase in Lithuania costs beyond the price: notary's fee, registration, valuation, bank and insurance charges, translation, agent, moving in.","Around the price sits a small budget of its own. It is modest next to the value of the flat, but it falls in the same weeks and comes out of the same money already earmarked for the deposit.",[334,337,340,343,346],{"id":335,"text":336},"notary","The notary's fee",{"id":338,"text":339},"registration","Registration",{"id":341,"text":342},"bank","Bank, valuation, insurance",{"id":344,"text":345},"other","Translation, agent and the rest",{"id":347,"text":348},"moving-in","Moving in, and the date charges start",{"services":350,"lexikon":351},[44,45],[48,49,113],{"slug":353,"title":354,"metaTitle":355,"metaDescription":356,"excerpt":357,"toc":358,"updated":41,"related":373},"energinio-naudingumo-sertifikatas","Energy performance certificate","Energy performance certificate: what it tells you","The energy performance certificate in Lithuania: when it is mandatory, what the class means, how a building certificate differs from a flat one, and what it cannot tell you.","One of the few documents about a flat produced by an independent expert to a single method. It lets you compare two flats — and it will not tell you what your heating will cost.",[359,361,364,367,370],{"id":299,"text":360},"What the certificate measures",{"id":362,"text":363},"when-required","When it is required",{"id":365,"text":366},"the-class","What the class means",{"id":368,"text":369},"building-or-flat","A building certificate and a flat certificate",{"id":371,"text":372},"limits","What it cannot tell you",{"services":374,"lexikon":375},[44,45],[176,175,112],{"slug":112,"title":377,"metaTitle":378,"metaDescription":379,"excerpt":380,"toc":381,"updated":41,"related":397},"Floor areas of a flat","Floor areas: useful, total, and the balcony question","How useful area and total area differ in Lithuania, how balconies and terraces are counted, and why the area in a contract can differ from the one in the cadastre.","One flat carries several different areas at the same time, and all of them are correct — they are simply measured by different rules. Until you know which figure is quoted, two flats cannot be compared.",[382,385,388,391,394],{"id":383,"text":384},"why-several","Why there is more than one area",{"id":386,"text":387},"useful","Useful area",{"id":389,"text":390},"total","Total area and the share of common premises",{"id":392,"text":393},"balconies","Balconies, loggias, terraces",{"id":395,"text":396},"contract","What to pin down in the contract",{"services":398,"lexikon":399},[44,45],[292,47,400],"sandeliukai-ir-parkavimas",{"slug":265,"title":402,"metaTitle":403,"metaDescription":404,"excerpt":405,"toc":406,"updated":41,"related":422},"Guarantee for construction defects","Construction defects: guarantee periods and who answers","Guarantee periods for construction work in Lithuania: visible versus hidden defects, who the claim goes to, how to write it, and what happens with common parts of the building.","Responsibility does not end when the keys change hands. Statutory guarantee periods apply to construction work, which means part of what appears later is the builder's problem rather than the owner's.",[407,410,413,416,419],{"id":408,"text":409},"what-protects","What protects a buyer after handover",{"id":411,"text":412},"periods","Guarantee periods and when they start",{"id":414,"text":415},"addressee","Who the claim goes to",{"id":417,"text":418},"how-to-claim","How to make the claim",{"id":420,"text":421},"common-parts","Common parts of the building",{"services":423,"lexikon":424},[44,45],[176,175,316],{"slug":176,"title":426,"metaTitle":427,"metaDescription":428,"excerpt":429,"toc":430,"updated":41,"related":446},"Handover record","Handover record: the day you get the keys","The flat handover record in Lithuania: what to inspect, how to write a defect list that holds up, meter readings, keys, and the date your charges start running.","Signing at the notary and receiving the keys are two separate events. The second is recorded in a short document, and that document later decides whose problem every small fault is.",[431,434,437,440,443],{"id":432,"text":433},"what-it-does","What the record does",{"id":435,"text":436},"what-to-bring","What to bring to the inspection",{"id":438,"text":439},"what-to-check","What to check in the flat",{"id":441,"text":442},"defect-list","Writing a defect list that holds up",{"id":444,"text":445},"meters-keys","Meters, keys, and when charges start",{"services":447,"lexikon":448},[44,45],[265,112,175],{"slug":49,"title":450,"metaTitle":451,"metaDescription":452,"excerpt":453,"toc":454,"updated":41,"related":470},"Mortgage and credit","Mortgage and credit: how the sequence works in Lithuania","Buying a Lithuanian flat with credit: the two bank decisions, the valuation, the statutory reflection period, the notarial mortgage deed, and what usually blocks a purchase.","A bank decides about the borrower and about the flat, separately. Until both decisions exist, every date in the purchase is a forecast — which is why the deadlines are set backwards from the bank's last step.",[455,458,461,464,467],{"id":456,"text":457},"two-decisions","Two decisions, not one",{"id":459,"text":460},"valuation","The valuation",{"id":462,"text":463},"not-the-bank","Terms the bank does not set",{"id":465,"text":466},"at-the-notary","The mortgage deed at the notary",{"id":468,"text":469},"blockers","What usually blocks the purchase",{"services":471,"lexikon":472},[44,45],[328,48,19],{"slug":316,"title":474,"metaTitle":475,"metaDescription":476,"excerpt":477,"toc":478,"updated":41,"related":494},"Preliminary agreement in Lithuania","Preliminary agreement: the contract that decides the purchase","The preliminary purchase agreement for a Lithuanian flat: why it is in writing, what belongs in it, what follows a refusal to sign, and the special rule for an unbuilt home.","A promise to buy, not a purchase. Nothing changes hands, yet almost every later disagreement is settled by this text — which is why it is the cheapest document to have checked and the most expensive one to rush.",[479,482,485,488,491],{"id":480,"text":481},"promise","A promise, not a sale",{"id":483,"text":484},"written-form","Written form, and why notarial form is not needed yet",{"id":486,"text":487},"contents","What the agreement has to fix",{"id":489,"text":490},"if-nobody-signs","When the main contract never happens",{"id":492,"text":493},"unbuilt","An unbuilt flat: a rule of its own",{"services":495,"lexikon":496},[44,45],[239,48,49],{"slug":113,"title":498,"metaTitle":499,"metaDescription":500,"excerpt":501,"toc":502,"updated":41,"related":518},"Property taxes in Lithuania","Property taxes on a flat in Lithuania: what is paid when","The taxes around a Lithuanian flat: real property tax and land tax, VAT inside a new-build price, income tax on a sale, and tax on rental income — mechanics, not stale figures.","The taxes around a flat are not one tax but several obligations arising at different moments. This article describes how each works and which statute sets the rate you need to look up.",[503,506,509,512,515],{"id":504,"text":505},"on-purchase","At purchase: what is inside the price",{"id":507,"text":508},"while-owning","While you own it: the annual taxes",{"id":510,"text":511},"the-land","The land under the building",{"id":513,"text":514},"on-selling","On selling: income tax",{"id":516,"text":517},"on-letting","On letting it out",{"services":519,"lexikon":520},[44,45],[328,47,175],{"slug":47,"title":522,"metaTitle":523,"metaDescription":524,"excerpt":525,"toc":526,"updated":41,"related":541},"Register extract (Registrų centras)","Register extract: what it tells you about a flat","The Lithuanian Real Property Register extract: owner, restrictions and cadastral data, how to order one yourself, and what the extract does not tell you.","The one document that describes the flat in the state's words rather than the seller's. It shows the owner, every restriction and the official data — and anyone can order it without asking the seller.",[527,529,532,535,538],{"id":299,"text":528},"What the extract is",{"id":530,"text":531},"what-to-read","The lines that matter",{"id":533,"text":534},"register-cadastre","Register and cadastre are two different things",{"id":536,"text":537},"how-to-order","Ordering one yourself",{"id":539,"text":540},"silent-on","What the extract is silent about",{"services":542,"lexikon":543},[44,45],[19,292,48],{"slug":239,"title":545,"metaTitle":546,"metaDescription":547,"excerpt":548,"toc":549,"updated":41,"related":565},"Reservation agreement in Lithuania","Reservation agreement: what it holds and what it does not","What a reservation agreement for a Lithuanian flat actually commits you to, how a reservation fee differs from an advance and from a deposit, and what happens when the term runs out.","The reservation is the first paper anyone signs about a specific flat, and usually the only one signed without reading to the end. It buys time, not property: nothing moves in the register at this stage.",[550,553,556,559,562],{"id":551,"text":552},"what-it-buys","What you are actually buying",{"id":554,"text":555},"six-points","Six points the document has to settle",{"id":557,"text":558},"the-money","Reservation fee, advance, deposit",{"id":560,"text":561},"the-term","The term, and the day after it",{"id":563,"text":564},"expectations","What a reservation will not do for you",{"services":566,"lexikon":567},[44,45],[316,47,328],{"slug":400,"title":569,"metaTitle":570,"metaDescription":571,"excerpt":572,"toc":573,"updated":41,"related":589},"Storage rooms and parking","Storage room and parking space: whose exactly","Whether a storage room or parking space in Lithuania is part of the flat, a separate object or a share of common premises — and why that changes price, tax and resale.","A storage room and a parking space can be set up in three entirely different legal ways. Which one applies decides whether they can be sold separately, who pays for them, and what the register shows.",[574,577,580,583,586],{"id":575,"text":576},"three-ways","Three different legal arrangements",{"id":578,"text":579},"separate","A separate object",{"id":581,"text":582},"share","A share of larger premises",{"id":584,"text":585},"allocated","Allocated use of common property",{"id":587,"text":588},"checks","What to check, in the contract and on site",{"services":590,"lexikon":591},[44,45],[47,112,175],{"slug":48,"title":593,"metaTitle":594,"metaDescription":595,"excerpt":596,"toc":597,"updated":41,"related":612},"The notarial act","The notarial act: how signing day runs in Lithuania","What a Lithuanian notary checks before certifying a flat purchase, how signing day runs, when an interpreter is required, and how the notary's deposit account works.","A flat in Lithuania changes hands in notarial form. The notary is not a witness with a stamp: the office queries the registers itself, answers for the legality of what it certifies, and explains the deed to both sides.",[598,601,604,607,610],{"id":599,"text":600},"why-notary","Why there is no purchase without a notary",{"id":602,"text":603},"the-checklist","What the notary verifies",{"id":605,"text":606},"the-day","How signing day runs",{"id":608,"text":609},"language","Language, interpreter, representative",{"id":557,"text":611},"Money: the deposit account and the risky gap",{"services":613,"lexikon":614},[44,45],[47,316,328],1791227408529]