[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":105},["ShallowReactive",2],{"content:cities:en":3,"content:blog:en":18},[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.",[19,51,79],{"slug":20,"title":21,"subtitle":22,"date":23,"metaTitle":24,"metaDescription":25,"excerpt":26,"readingMinutes":27,"tags":28,"toc":32},"ka-patikrinti-atvykus-prie-pastatyto-namo","What to check when you visit a finished building","A finished building can be walked around. Here is what to look at by day, what only shows in the evening, and what only shows in the rain.","2026-10-05","What to check at a finished building: a buyer’s list","A practical list for visiting a completed, occupied building: the lawn and the pruning, paving falls, manhole covers, where the bins stand, lighting after dark, and what rain reveals.","A finished building has one property that neither a visualisation nor a show apartment has: you can walk around it. What is actually worth looking at on a handed-over, occupied site, and why the upkeep of the grounds says more about a developer than the facade does.",6,[29,30,31],"buyer guide","landscaping","completed building",[33,36,39,42,45,48],{"id":34,"text":35},"kodel-atvykti","Why a finished building is a different conversation",{"id":37,"text":38},"aplinka","What the grounds tell you",{"id":40,"text":41},"vakare","What you see after dark",{"id":43,"text":44},"per-lietu","Why it is worth seeing the building in the rain",{"id":46,"text":47},"po-pridavimo","Why upkeep says more than the facade",{"id":49,"text":50},"sarasas","The list, short enough to carry",{"slug":52,"title":53,"subtitle":54,"date":55,"metaTitle":56,"metaDescription":57,"excerpt":58,"readingMinutes":27,"tags":59,"toc":63},"klinkerio-fasadas-po-desimties-metu","A clinker brick facade ten years on","How clinker masonry differs from render and from thin brick slips, what water and frost do to it, and what you must never do to it.","2026-10-03","A clinker facade ten years on: the material without flattery","How clinker brick differs from decorative render and from glued brick slips, why the mortar joint and the flashings decide everything, why clinker must not be painted, and how it ages.","A facade is the one part of a building everybody sees and nobody replaces on a whim. So the material is worth discussing at ten years distance rather than on the day of purchase: water, frost, the usual mistakes, and what a finished building shows that a visualisation cannot.",[60,61,62],"facade","clinker brick","materials",[64,67,70,73,76],{"id":65,"text":66},"kas-yra-klinkeris","What clinker is, and what it is not",{"id":68,"text":69},"vanduo-ir-salnos","What water and frost do to a facade",{"id":71,"text":72},"ko-nedaryti","What never to do to clinker",{"id":74,"text":75},"kaip-sensta","How a clinker facade ages",{"id":77,"text":78},"ka-matai-pastatytame","What a finished building shows",{"slug":80,"title":81,"subtitle":82,"date":83,"metaTitle":84,"metaDescription":85,"excerpt":86,"readingMinutes":27,"tags":87,"toc":89},"kaip-skaityti-butu-kainas-vilniuje","How to read apartment prices in Vilnius","The advertised price and the sum that actually leaves your account are two different numbers. This is about what sits between them.","2026-10-01","Apartment prices in Vilnius: how to read the numbers","Why an advertised apartment price and the final sum never match, what is paid on the way to registration, and why price per square metre is an unreliable measure.","People look for apartment prices in Vilnius expecting a number, and the number they find is almost never the one a buyer ends up transferring. A look at the mechanics: the notary, registration, taxes, the agent, and the several ways floor area gets counted.",[88,6,29],"apartment prices",[90,93,96,99,102],{"id":91,"text":92},"kaina-ir-suma","The advertised price and the final sum",{"id":94,"text":95},"kas-prisideda","What is added on the way",{"id":97,"text":98},"kvadratinis-metras","Why price per square metre misleads",{"id":100,"text":101},"kainininkas","Why a price list is older than the website",{"id":103,"text":104},"kaip-klausti","Four questions that produce a number",1791227409045]