[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":114},["ShallowReactive",2],{"content:cities:en":3,"content:blog:kaip-skaityti-butu-kainas-vilniuje:en":18,"content:blog:en":47},[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,"subtitle":21,"date":22,"metaTitle":23,"metaDescription":24,"excerpt":25,"readingMinutes":26,"tags":27,"toc":30,"body":46},"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.",6,[28,6,29],"apartment prices","buyer guide",[31,34,37,40,43],{"id":32,"text":33},"kaina-ir-suma","The advertised price and the final sum",{"id":35,"text":36},"kas-prisideda","What is added on the way",{"id":38,"text":39},"kvadratinis-metras","Why price per square metre misleads",{"id":41,"text":42},"kainininkas","Why a price list is older than the website",{"id":44,"text":45},"kaip-klausti","Four questions that produce a number","\u003Cp>Apartment prices in Vilnius are one of the most searched subjects in the local market, and the search is almost always for a figure. The figure people find is rarely the one a buyer ends up transferring. What follows is not a price list but the mechanics behind one: what separates the advertised price from the final sum, why price per square metre is an unreliable measure, and why a developer's price list goes out of date faster than the website is updated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"kaina-ir-suma\">The advertised price and the final sum\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>An advertised price is an offer for one specific apartment on one specific day. The final sum is how much money leaves the buyer's account before they are the owner on the register. Between the two sits a series of payments, none of them large on its own, which together add up to an amount worth knowing about before the preliminary agreement rather than after it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The important part is that none of these payments is a secret. Each has a name, an address and a publicly set way of being calculated. A buyer does not have to guess them in advance — only to ask for them to be listed, and to get a list rather than an assurance that everything is included.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"kas-prisideda\">What is added on the way\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>The notary.\u003C\u002Fstrong> A purchase agreement for an apartment is certified by a notary. The notary's fee is not freely negotiated: the rates are set in the schedule of notarial fees approved by the Minister of Justice and depend on the value of the transaction. On top of that come the office's own tasks — drafting, certificates, sometimes supervision of performance. Who pays the notary — the buyer, the seller, or each half — is for the parties to agree, and it is worth settling before anyone drives out to sign.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>The land register.\u003C\u002Fstrong> Ownership of an apartment only becomes public once it is entered in the Real Estate Register. Registration carries a charge whose rates are public and set by law rather than by agreement. An extract from the register is usually ordered at the same time, and it is a document worth holding yourself rather than only in the bank's file.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Taxes.\u003C\u002Fstrong> An apartment that becomes yours brings recurring taxes with it. The rate of immovable property tax and the share of value that is exempt are set by the Law on Immovable Property Tax and by municipal decisions; land tax is calculated separately. What is worth carrying away here is not a percentage, which changes over time, but the habit of asking what this apartment's taxable value is and what to expect in the first year.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>The agent.\u003C\u002Fstrong> If there is an estate agent in the transaction, somebody is paying the commission. There is no standard answer to who: it depends on whose interest the agent represents and how the brokerage agreement is written. One honest question — who pays you? — saves more than any negotiating tactic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Financing.\u003C\u002Fstrong> When part of the sum is borrowed, arrangement fees, a valuation and insurance come with it. Strictly speaking that is not the price of the apartment, but it lands in the buyer's account in the same month. This part is calculated case by case, so there is no general figure here and there cannot be one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This text is general information and is neither legal nor tax advice. The terms of a specific transaction and its tax consequences are for a notary and a tax adviser who can see your documents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"kvadratinis-metras\">Why price per square metre misleads\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>Price per square metre is convenient because it makes incomparable things comparable. That is exactly why it misleads: the same operation that puts two apartments on one scale erases everything that differs between them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First, floor area is not counted the same way twice. An apartment has a total area and a usable area, and those are not synonyms. A balcony, a loggia or a terrace may be left out, counted in full, or counted with a coefficient. A basement store and a parking space may be separate objects with separate prices or part of the same figure. Divide a price by two differently counted areas and you get two indicators that must not be set side by side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Second, the design area and the area established by cadastral measurement do not necessarily agree to the second decimal. That is why contracts tend to carry a recalculation clause. In a building that is finished and handed over, the question is already answered: the cadastral data exist and can be read. In a project still to be built, there is no answer yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Third, what the price is for. An apartment sold unfitted and an apartment sold fitted out are two different products, and a per-metre indicator does not distinguish them. So the first question about a price is not how much, but what is included and which area you are dividing by.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"kainininkas\">Why a price list is older than the website\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>A price list published on a developer's website is a snapshot. Every reservation, every withdrawal and every price review changes it, and the website is refreshed less often than those things happen. This is not cunning but ordinary administrative lag: the list lives in a sales spreadsheet, not on a web page.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The practical conclusion follows. A figure found online is good for understanding the order of magnitude and preparing for a conversation. It is not good for negotiating or for planning money. The only figure you can work with is the one given to you in writing, with a date on it and a specific apartment named.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The same holds for published market averages. A Vilnius average is assembled from districts whose density, housing stock and way of life have little in common. An average is useful when the subject is a city and close to useless when the subject is one building on one street.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2 id=\"kaip-klausti\">Four questions that produce a number\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>Four questions turn a conversation about price into a conversation about a sum. What is the price of this apartment today, and until what date does it hold? Which area is it divided by, and does that area include the balcony, the store and the parking space? What else, besides the price, does the buyer pay before registration, and to whom exactly? And who pays the notary — is there an agent in the transaction at all?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A finished building makes these questions easier, because the answers are in documents rather than in forecasts. The building on Gerosios Vilties street in Vilnius is built, handed over and lived in: there is something to measure, something to compare against, and people already living there to ask. None of that makes a price lower. It makes it real — and a real number is the only one worth doing arithmetic on.\u003C\u002Fp>",[48,78,106],{"slug":49,"title":50,"subtitle":51,"date":52,"metaTitle":53,"metaDescription":54,"excerpt":55,"readingMinutes":26,"tags":56,"toc":59},"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.",[29,57,58],"landscaping","completed building",[60,63,66,69,72,75],{"id":61,"text":62},"kodel-atvykti","Why a finished building is a different conversation",{"id":64,"text":65},"aplinka","What the grounds tell you",{"id":67,"text":68},"vakare","What you see after dark",{"id":70,"text":71},"per-lietu","Why it is worth seeing the building in the rain",{"id":73,"text":74},"po-pridavimo","Why upkeep says more than the facade",{"id":76,"text":77},"sarasas","The list, short enough to carry",{"slug":79,"title":80,"subtitle":81,"date":82,"metaTitle":83,"metaDescription":84,"excerpt":85,"readingMinutes":26,"tags":86,"toc":90},"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.",[87,88,89],"facade","clinker brick","materials",[91,94,97,100,103],{"id":92,"text":93},"kas-yra-klinkeris","What clinker is, and what it is not",{"id":95,"text":96},"vanduo-ir-salnos","What water and frost do to a facade",{"id":98,"text":99},"ko-nedaryti","What never to do to clinker",{"id":101,"text":102},"kaip-sensta","How a clinker facade ages",{"id":104,"text":105},"ka-matai-pastatytame","What a finished building shows",{"slug":19,"title":20,"subtitle":21,"date":22,"metaTitle":23,"metaDescription":24,"excerpt":25,"readingMinutes":26,"tags":107,"toc":108},[28,6,29],[109,110,111,112,113],{"id":32,"text":33},{"id":35,"text":36},{"id":38,"text":39},{"id":41,"text":42},{"id":44,"text":45},1791227409130]