[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":491},["ShallowReactive",2],{"content:cities:en":3,"content:service:namo-aplinka:en":18,"content:lexikon:en":84,"content:pseo:en":480},[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,"teaser":21,"metaTitle":22,"metaDescription":23,"h1":24,"intro":25,"forWhom":26,"includes":31,"howItWorks":47,"model":60,"faq":63,"related":79},"namo-aplinka","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.",[27,28,29,30],"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.",[32,35,38,41,44],{"title":33,"text":34},"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":36,"text":37},"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":39,"text":40},"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":42,"text":43},"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":45,"text":46},"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.",[48,51,54,57],{"title":49,"text":50},"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":52,"text":53},"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":55,"text":56},"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":58,"text":59},"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":61,"text":62},"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.",[64,67,70,73,76],{"q":65,"a":66},"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":68,"a":69},"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":71,"a":72},"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":74,"a":75},"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":77,"a":78},"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.",[80,81,82,83],"bendrijos-ir-administravimas","pridavimo-aktas","buto-plotai","registru-centro-israsas",[85,113,140,166,191,216,240,265,289,313,337,362,386,409,433,457],{"slug":80,"title":86,"metaTitle":87,"metaDescription":88,"excerpt":89,"toc":90,"updated":106,"related":107},"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.",[91,94,97,100,103],{"id":92,"text":93},"what-is-common","What is common in the building",{"id":95,"text":96},"three-routes","Three ways a building is run",{"id":98,"text":99},"the-costs","Common costs and the accumulated fund",{"id":101,"text":102},"decisions","How decisions are taken",{"id":104,"text":105},"before-buying","What to check before buying","2026-10-05",{"services":108,"lexikon":110},[109,19],"naujos-statybos-butai",[82,111,112],"statybos-defektu-garantija","nekilnojamojo-turto-mokesciai",{"slug":114,"title":115,"metaTitle":116,"metaDescription":117,"excerpt":118,"toc":119,"updated":106,"related":135},"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.",[120,123,126,129,132],{"id":121,"text":122},"is-it-allowed","Whether it is allowed, and where the limits are",{"id":124,"text":125},"identification","Identification and the personal code",{"id":127,"text":128},"documents","Documents issued abroad",{"id":130,"text":131},"banking","A bank account and the source of funds",{"id":133,"text":134},"by-proxy","Buying without travelling",{"services":136,"lexikon":137},[109,19],[138,83,139],"notaro-veiksmas","hipoteka-ir-paskola",{"slug":141,"title":142,"metaTitle":143,"metaDescription":144,"excerpt":145,"toc":146,"updated":106,"related":162},"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.",[147,150,153,156,159],{"id":148,"text":149},"what-it-is","What cadastral measurement is",{"id":151,"text":152},"who-measures","Who measures, and what the buyer should ask for",{"id":154,"text":155},"becoming-object","When the flat becomes a separate object",{"id":157,"text":158},"mismatches","Differences in the final figure",{"id":160,"text":161},"later-changes","Alterations after the fact",{"services":163,"lexikon":164},[109,19],[82,83,165],"preliminarioji-sutartis",{"slug":167,"title":168,"metaTitle":169,"metaDescription":170,"excerpt":171,"toc":172,"updated":106,"related":188},"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.",[173,176,179,182,185],{"id":174,"text":175},"yourself","Why you check it yourself",{"id":177,"text":178},"which-entries","Which entries matter",{"id":180,"text":181},"where","Where to look",{"id":183,"text":184},"when","When to check: more than once",{"id":186,"text":187},"if-found","What to do if you find something",{"services":189,"lexikon":190},[109,19],[83,138,139],{"slug":192,"title":193,"metaTitle":194,"metaDescription":195,"excerpt":196,"toc":197,"updated":106,"related":213},"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.",[198,201,204,207,210],{"id":199,"text":200},"notary","The notary's fee",{"id":202,"text":203},"registration","Registration",{"id":205,"text":206},"bank","Bank, valuation, insurance",{"id":208,"text":209},"other","Translation, agent and the rest",{"id":211,"text":212},"moving-in","Moving in, and the date charges start",{"services":214,"lexikon":215},[109,19],[138,139,112],{"slug":217,"title":218,"metaTitle":219,"metaDescription":220,"excerpt":221,"toc":222,"updated":106,"related":237},"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.",[223,225,228,231,234],{"id":148,"text":224},"What the certificate measures",{"id":226,"text":227},"when-required","When it is required",{"id":229,"text":230},"the-class","What the class means",{"id":232,"text":233},"building-or-flat","A building certificate and a flat certificate",{"id":235,"text":236},"limits","What it cannot tell you",{"services":238,"lexikon":239},[109,19],[81,80,82],{"slug":82,"title":241,"metaTitle":242,"metaDescription":243,"excerpt":244,"toc":245,"updated":106,"related":261},"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.",[246,249,252,255,258],{"id":247,"text":248},"why-several","Why there is more than one area",{"id":250,"text":251},"useful","Useful area",{"id":253,"text":254},"total","Total area and the share of common premises",{"id":256,"text":257},"balconies","Balconies, loggias, terraces",{"id":259,"text":260},"contract","What to pin down in the contract",{"services":262,"lexikon":263},[109,19],[141,83,264],"sandeliukai-ir-parkavimas",{"slug":111,"title":266,"metaTitle":267,"metaDescription":268,"excerpt":269,"toc":270,"updated":106,"related":286},"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.",[271,274,277,280,283],{"id":272,"text":273},"what-protects","What protects a buyer after handover",{"id":275,"text":276},"periods","Guarantee periods and when they start",{"id":278,"text":279},"addressee","Who the claim goes to",{"id":281,"text":282},"how-to-claim","How to make the claim",{"id":284,"text":285},"common-parts","Common parts of the building",{"services":287,"lexikon":288},[109,19],[81,80,165],{"slug":81,"title":290,"metaTitle":291,"metaDescription":292,"excerpt":293,"toc":294,"updated":106,"related":310},"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.",[295,298,301,304,307],{"id":296,"text":297},"what-it-does","What the record does",{"id":299,"text":300},"what-to-bring","What to bring to the inspection",{"id":302,"text":303},"what-to-check","What to check in the flat",{"id":305,"text":306},"defect-list","Writing a defect list that holds up",{"id":308,"text":309},"meters-keys","Meters, keys, and when charges start",{"services":311,"lexikon":312},[109,19],[111,82,80],{"slug":139,"title":314,"metaTitle":315,"metaDescription":316,"excerpt":317,"toc":318,"updated":106,"related":334},"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.",[319,322,325,328,331],{"id":320,"text":321},"two-decisions","Two decisions, not one",{"id":323,"text":324},"valuation","The valuation",{"id":326,"text":327},"not-the-bank","Terms the bank does not set",{"id":329,"text":330},"at-the-notary","The mortgage deed at the notary",{"id":332,"text":333},"blockers","What usually blocks the purchase",{"services":335,"lexikon":336},[109,19],[192,138,167],{"slug":165,"title":338,"metaTitle":339,"metaDescription":340,"excerpt":341,"toc":342,"updated":106,"related":358},"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.",[343,346,349,352,355],{"id":344,"text":345},"promise","A promise, not a sale",{"id":347,"text":348},"written-form","Written form, and why notarial form is not needed yet",{"id":350,"text":351},"contents","What the agreement has to fix",{"id":353,"text":354},"if-nobody-signs","When the main contract never happens",{"id":356,"text":357},"unbuilt","An unbuilt flat: a rule of its own",{"services":359,"lexikon":360},[109,19],[361,138,139],"rezervavimo-sutartis",{"slug":112,"title":363,"metaTitle":364,"metaDescription":365,"excerpt":366,"toc":367,"updated":106,"related":383},"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.",[368,371,374,377,380],{"id":369,"text":370},"on-purchase","At purchase: what is inside the price",{"id":372,"text":373},"while-owning","While you own it: the annual taxes",{"id":375,"text":376},"the-land","The land under the building",{"id":378,"text":379},"on-selling","On selling: income tax",{"id":381,"text":382},"on-letting","On letting it out",{"services":384,"lexikon":385},[109,19],[192,83,80],{"slug":83,"title":387,"metaTitle":388,"metaDescription":389,"excerpt":390,"toc":391,"updated":106,"related":406},"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.",[392,394,397,400,403],{"id":148,"text":393},"What the extract is",{"id":395,"text":396},"what-to-read","The lines that matter",{"id":398,"text":399},"register-cadastre","Register and cadastre are two different things",{"id":401,"text":402},"how-to-order","Ordering one yourself",{"id":404,"text":405},"silent-on","What the extract is silent about",{"services":407,"lexikon":408},[109,19],[167,141,138],{"slug":361,"title":410,"metaTitle":411,"metaDescription":412,"excerpt":413,"toc":414,"updated":106,"related":430},"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.",[415,418,421,424,427],{"id":416,"text":417},"what-it-buys","What you are actually buying",{"id":419,"text":420},"six-points","Six points the document has to settle",{"id":422,"text":423},"the-money","Reservation fee, advance, deposit",{"id":425,"text":426},"the-term","The term, and the day after it",{"id":428,"text":429},"expectations","What a reservation will not do for you",{"services":431,"lexikon":432},[109,19],[165,83,192],{"slug":264,"title":434,"metaTitle":435,"metaDescription":436,"excerpt":437,"toc":438,"updated":106,"related":454},"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.",[439,442,445,448,451],{"id":440,"text":441},"three-ways","Three different legal arrangements",{"id":443,"text":444},"separate","A separate object",{"id":446,"text":447},"share","A share of larger premises",{"id":449,"text":450},"allocated","Allocated use of common property",{"id":452,"text":453},"checks","What to check, in the contract and on site",{"services":455,"lexikon":456},[109,19],[83,82,80],{"slug":138,"title":458,"metaTitle":459,"metaDescription":460,"excerpt":461,"toc":462,"updated":106,"related":477},"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.",[463,466,469,472,475],{"id":464,"text":465},"why-notary","Why there is no purchase without a notary",{"id":467,"text":468},"the-checklist","What the notary verifies",{"id":470,"text":471},"the-day","How signing day runs",{"id":473,"text":474},"language","Language, interpreter, representative",{"id":422,"text":476},"Money: the deposit account and the risky gap",{"services":478,"lexikon":479},[109,19],[83,165,192],[481,484,487],{"service":109,"city":5,"title":482,"h1":483},"New-build apartments in Vilnius: three states, three purchases","New-build apartments in Vilnius: three different things to buy",{"service":19,"city":5,"title":485,"h1":486},"The grounds through a Vilnius year","The grounds of a building in Vilnius: what the season you visit in reveals",{"service":488,"city":5,"title":489,"h1":490},"vieta-ir-susisiekimas","Gerosios Vilties street on the map of Vilnius","Apartments on Gerosios Vilties street: how this address sits within the map of Vilnius",1791227408520]