[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":491},["ShallowReactive",2],{"content:cities:en":3,"content:service:vieta-ir-susisiekimas:en":18,"content:lexikon:en":84,"content:pseo:en":481},[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},"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.",[27,28,29,30],"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.",[32,35,38,41,44],{"title":33,"text":34},"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":36,"text":37},"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":39,"text":40},"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":42,"text":43},"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":45,"text":46},"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.",[48,51,54,57],{"title":49,"text":50},"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":52,"text":53},"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":55,"text":56},"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":58,"text":59},"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":61,"text":62},"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.",[64,67,70,73,76],{"q":65,"a":66},"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":68,"a":69},"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":71,"a":72},"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":74,"a":75},"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":77,"a":78},"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.",[80,81,82,83],"antstolio-aresto-patikra","registru-centro-israsas","rezervavimo-sutartis","notaro-veiksmas",[85,116,142,168,192,217,242,267,291,315,339,363,387,410,434,458],{"slug":86,"title":87,"metaTitle":88,"metaDescription":89,"excerpt":90,"toc":91,"updated":107,"related":108},"bendrijos-ir-administravimas","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.",[92,95,98,101,104],{"id":93,"text":94},"what-is-common","What is common in the building",{"id":96,"text":97},"three-routes","Three ways a building is run",{"id":99,"text":100},"the-costs","Common costs and the accumulated fund",{"id":102,"text":103},"decisions","How decisions are taken",{"id":105,"text":106},"before-buying","What to check before buying","2026-10-05",{"services":109,"lexikon":112},[110,111],"naujos-statybos-butai","namo-aplinka",[113,114,115],"buto-plotai","statybos-defektu-garantija","nekilnojamojo-turto-mokesciai",{"slug":117,"title":118,"metaTitle":119,"metaDescription":120,"excerpt":121,"toc":122,"updated":107,"related":138},"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.",[123,126,129,132,135],{"id":124,"text":125},"is-it-allowed","Whether it is allowed, and where the limits are",{"id":127,"text":128},"identification","Identification and the personal code",{"id":130,"text":131},"documents","Documents issued abroad",{"id":133,"text":134},"banking","A bank account and the source of funds",{"id":136,"text":137},"by-proxy","Buying without travelling",{"services":139,"lexikon":140},[110,111],[83,81,141],"hipoteka-ir-paskola",{"slug":143,"title":144,"metaTitle":145,"metaDescription":146,"excerpt":147,"toc":148,"updated":107,"related":164},"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.",[149,152,155,158,161],{"id":150,"text":151},"what-it-is","What cadastral measurement is",{"id":153,"text":154},"who-measures","Who measures, and what the buyer should ask for",{"id":156,"text":157},"becoming-object","When the flat becomes a separate object",{"id":159,"text":160},"mismatches","Differences in the final figure",{"id":162,"text":163},"later-changes","Alterations after the fact",{"services":165,"lexikon":166},[110,111],[113,81,167],"preliminarioji-sutartis",{"slug":80,"title":169,"metaTitle":170,"metaDescription":171,"excerpt":172,"toc":173,"updated":107,"related":189},"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.",[174,177,180,183,186],{"id":175,"text":176},"yourself","Why you check it yourself",{"id":178,"text":179},"which-entries","Which entries matter",{"id":181,"text":182},"where","Where to look",{"id":184,"text":185},"when","When to check: more than once",{"id":187,"text":188},"if-found","What to do if you find something",{"services":190,"lexikon":191},[110,111],[81,83,141],{"slug":193,"title":194,"metaTitle":195,"metaDescription":196,"excerpt":197,"toc":198,"updated":107,"related":214},"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.",[199,202,205,208,211],{"id":200,"text":201},"notary","The notary's fee",{"id":203,"text":204},"registration","Registration",{"id":206,"text":207},"bank","Bank, valuation, insurance",{"id":209,"text":210},"other","Translation, agent and the rest",{"id":212,"text":213},"moving-in","Moving in, and the date charges start",{"services":215,"lexikon":216},[110,111],[83,141,115],{"slug":218,"title":219,"metaTitle":220,"metaDescription":221,"excerpt":222,"toc":223,"updated":107,"related":238},"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.",[224,226,229,232,235],{"id":150,"text":225},"What the certificate measures",{"id":227,"text":228},"when-required","When it is required",{"id":230,"text":231},"the-class","What the class means",{"id":233,"text":234},"building-or-flat","A building certificate and a flat certificate",{"id":236,"text":237},"limits","What it cannot tell you",{"services":239,"lexikon":240},[110,111],[241,86,113],"pridavimo-aktas",{"slug":113,"title":243,"metaTitle":244,"metaDescription":245,"excerpt":246,"toc":247,"updated":107,"related":263},"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.",[248,251,254,257,260],{"id":249,"text":250},"why-several","Why there is more than one area",{"id":252,"text":253},"useful","Useful area",{"id":255,"text":256},"total","Total area and the share of common premises",{"id":258,"text":259},"balconies","Balconies, loggias, terraces",{"id":261,"text":262},"contract","What to pin down in the contract",{"services":264,"lexikon":265},[110,111],[143,81,266],"sandeliukai-ir-parkavimas",{"slug":114,"title":268,"metaTitle":269,"metaDescription":270,"excerpt":271,"toc":272,"updated":107,"related":288},"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.",[273,276,279,282,285],{"id":274,"text":275},"what-protects","What protects a buyer after handover",{"id":277,"text":278},"periods","Guarantee periods and when they start",{"id":280,"text":281},"addressee","Who the claim goes to",{"id":283,"text":284},"how-to-claim","How to make the claim",{"id":286,"text":287},"common-parts","Common parts of the building",{"services":289,"lexikon":290},[110,111],[241,86,167],{"slug":241,"title":292,"metaTitle":293,"metaDescription":294,"excerpt":295,"toc":296,"updated":107,"related":312},"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.",[297,300,303,306,309],{"id":298,"text":299},"what-it-does","What the record does",{"id":301,"text":302},"what-to-bring","What to bring to the inspection",{"id":304,"text":305},"what-to-check","What to check in the flat",{"id":307,"text":308},"defect-list","Writing a defect list that holds up",{"id":310,"text":311},"meters-keys","Meters, keys, and when charges start",{"services":313,"lexikon":314},[110,111],[114,113,86],{"slug":141,"title":316,"metaTitle":317,"metaDescription":318,"excerpt":319,"toc":320,"updated":107,"related":336},"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.",[321,324,327,330,333],{"id":322,"text":323},"two-decisions","Two decisions, not one",{"id":325,"text":326},"valuation","The valuation",{"id":328,"text":329},"not-the-bank","Terms the bank does not set",{"id":331,"text":332},"at-the-notary","The mortgage deed at the notary",{"id":334,"text":335},"blockers","What usually blocks the purchase",{"services":337,"lexikon":338},[110,111],[193,83,80],{"slug":167,"title":340,"metaTitle":341,"metaDescription":342,"excerpt":343,"toc":344,"updated":107,"related":360},"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.",[345,348,351,354,357],{"id":346,"text":347},"promise","A promise, not a sale",{"id":349,"text":350},"written-form","Written form, and why notarial form is not needed yet",{"id":352,"text":353},"contents","What the agreement has to fix",{"id":355,"text":356},"if-nobody-signs","When the main contract never happens",{"id":358,"text":359},"unbuilt","An unbuilt flat: a rule of its own",{"services":361,"lexikon":362},[110,111],[82,83,141],{"slug":115,"title":364,"metaTitle":365,"metaDescription":366,"excerpt":367,"toc":368,"updated":107,"related":384},"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.",[369,372,375,378,381],{"id":370,"text":371},"on-purchase","At purchase: what is inside the price",{"id":373,"text":374},"while-owning","While you own it: the annual taxes",{"id":376,"text":377},"the-land","The land under the building",{"id":379,"text":380},"on-selling","On selling: income tax",{"id":382,"text":383},"on-letting","On letting it out",{"services":385,"lexikon":386},[110,111],[193,81,86],{"slug":81,"title":388,"metaTitle":389,"metaDescription":390,"excerpt":391,"toc":392,"updated":107,"related":407},"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.",[393,395,398,401,404],{"id":150,"text":394},"What the extract is",{"id":396,"text":397},"what-to-read","The lines that matter",{"id":399,"text":400},"register-cadastre","Register and cadastre are two different things",{"id":402,"text":403},"how-to-order","Ordering one yourself",{"id":405,"text":406},"silent-on","What the extract is silent about",{"services":408,"lexikon":409},[110,111],[80,143,83],{"slug":82,"title":411,"metaTitle":412,"metaDescription":413,"excerpt":414,"toc":415,"updated":107,"related":431},"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.",[416,419,422,425,428],{"id":417,"text":418},"what-it-buys","What you are actually buying",{"id":420,"text":421},"six-points","Six points the document has to settle",{"id":423,"text":424},"the-money","Reservation fee, advance, deposit",{"id":426,"text":427},"the-term","The term, and the day after it",{"id":429,"text":430},"expectations","What a reservation will not do for you",{"services":432,"lexikon":433},[110,111],[167,81,193],{"slug":266,"title":435,"metaTitle":436,"metaDescription":437,"excerpt":438,"toc":439,"updated":107,"related":455},"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.",[440,443,446,449,452],{"id":441,"text":442},"three-ways","Three different legal arrangements",{"id":444,"text":445},"separate","A separate object",{"id":447,"text":448},"share","A share of larger premises",{"id":450,"text":451},"allocated","Allocated use of common property",{"id":453,"text":454},"checks","What to check, in the contract and on site",{"services":456,"lexikon":457},[110,111],[81,113,86],{"slug":83,"title":459,"metaTitle":460,"metaDescription":461,"excerpt":462,"toc":463,"updated":107,"related":478},"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.",[464,467,470,473,476],{"id":465,"text":466},"why-notary","Why there is no purchase without a notary",{"id":468,"text":469},"the-checklist","What the notary verifies",{"id":471,"text":472},"the-day","How signing day runs",{"id":474,"text":475},"language","Language, interpreter, representative",{"id":423,"text":477},"Money: the deposit account and the risky gap",{"services":479,"lexikon":480},[110,111],[81,167,193],[482,485,488],{"service":110,"city":5,"title":483,"h1":484},"New-build apartments in Vilnius: three states, three purchases","New-build apartments in Vilnius: three different things to buy",{"service":111,"city":5,"title":486,"h1":487},"The grounds through a Vilnius year","The grounds of a building in Vilnius: what the season you visit in reveals",{"service":19,"city":5,"title":489,"h1":490},"Gerosios Vilties street on the map of Vilnius","Apartments on Gerosios Vilties street: how this address sits within the map of Vilnius",1791227408521]