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What Could Go Wrong While You Build In Greece From Abroad

A construction supervisor explains how small, unseen decisions during a Greek build, from orientation mix-ups to cost changes, can become expensive surprises for owners abroad.
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What the New Planning Code Actually Changes

A Volos-based engineer explains what Greece's new Planning Code changes for rural landowners, and why road recognition remains the biggest unresolved building-rights question.
Housing

Property Values in Greece: What to Know

Greek real estate taxes are based on a state-set "objective value," not the sale price. Here's how zones, coefficients, and property type shape that number.
Housing

What the Electronic Building ID Reveals

The Electronic Building Identity is the document that tells buyers what they are really purchasing, and the engineer, not the lawyer or agent, is who prepares it.
Housing

Who Watches Your Build While You’re Away

Building from abroad means trusting photos and phone calls. Maarten G. Verhoef explains what an independent supervisor actually checks for on-site — and why.
Housing

New Inheritance Law Opens the Market

A new inheritance law ends decades of property gridlock. Here is what it changes for foreign buyers and the Diaspora heirs ready to sell.
Housing

Buying Off-Plan Property: Think Twice

Mega-project developments look irresistible on paper. For retirees needing a home within a fixed timeframe, the risks rarely make the marketing pitch.
Housing

Kefalonia: Is This Where You Belong?

Kefalonia offers retirees natural beauty, authenticity, and year-round living. Two realtors share practical advice on locations, property choices, budgets, and life beyond the tourist season.
Housing

Dream Home Design: What to Know First

Building a home requires local expertise, vision, and navigating planning rules. Architect Katerina Bali shares what foreign buyers need, from plot selection to finishes.
Housing

A Month-by-Month Construction Timeline

Architect Katerina Valsamaki uses a Tinos villa to illustrate the bureaucratic "dance" of Greek construction, detailing essential timeframes for zoning, archaeological checks, and design approvals.
Housing

The Riviera Property Market

Caterina Kosmatou explains why the Athens Riviera attracts foreign retirees and investors, driven by rising prices, limited supply, strong demand and landmark developments like Elliniko.
Settling In

Buying Property in Border Areas

Lawyer Alex Kassandrinos explains why buying property in Greece’s border regions can become a complex legal process for non-EU foreign buyers.
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Property Transfer Tax May Hit 15%

Greece's Prime Minister has proposed raising the property transfer tax for non-EU buyers from 3% to 15% but no draft law exists yet.
Daily life

Moving to the Birthplace of the Olympics

Two representatives of Ilians living in Attica explain what daily life, healthcare, transport, and community integration really involve for retirees settling permanently near ancient Olympia.
Daily life

My Life in Kefalonia: A Greek-Canadian returns

Entrepreneur Spiros Haliotis lives between Canada and Kefalonia and makes the case for an island that gets better the longer you stay.
Daily life

When the Ferry Stops: Weather Realities

Living in Greece means respecting the meltemi winds and winter storms that occasionally halt ferry schedules, reminding residents that island life follows nature’s own pace.