Property for Sale in Neos Marmaras, Chalkidiki

Off-Market Properties in Neos Marmaras

Many of the best properties in Neos Marmaras never appear on portals - they are sold privately through local networks. Through our local network in Sithonia we source off-market properties before they reach the portals. Tell us your budget and requirements, and we will shortlist matching options for you.

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The Market Read as Three Altitude Bands

Read the town vertically rather than by district. At sea level sit the harbour strip and the streets behind it, where apartments, studios and commercial units dominate and everything is reachable on foot. Above that lies the residential body of the town, tier upon tier of maisonettes, small blocks and older family houses looking over the roofs towards the gulf.

Higher again, where the built area thins into pine and olive terraces, come detached houses, pool villas and the remaining building plots. Each band has its own buyer, its own price logic and its own problems. Deciding which one you are shopping in, before you open a listing, saves more time than anything else.

Why Buyers Settle on Neos Marmaras

Three motives recur. The first is that the town does not empty: enough people live here permanently for bakeries, supermarkets, pharmacies, fuel and tradespeople to keep working outside the season, which turns ownership from an annual expedition into something closer to normal life.

The second is density. Harbour, promenade, beach, restaurants, boat trips and the estate to the south sit close enough together that a car becomes optional for days at a time, which shows up in enjoyment and in letting appeal. The third is view supply: because the town is stacked rather than spread, far more ordinary properties look over water here than in a flat coastal settlement.

Position on the Peninsula and Access

Neos Marmaras lies roughly halfway down the western coast of Sithonia, on the Toroneos Gulf, where the road from the north arrives above the town and drops to the shore. It is far enough from the peninsula neck to feel remote, and close enough that an airport run stays a normal part of the day.

Treat these as orientation rather than timetable data. Journey times stretch noticeably in late July and August, and for owners flying in regularly the transfer time matters more than the kilometres.

The Harbour and the Waterfront

The waterfront is the spine of the town. Fishing boats and small excursion craft work from the harbour, the promenade runs along the bay with cafes and seafood tavernas facing the water, and the whole strip serves as the town's living room from May to October.

That concentration cuts both ways. Property on or just behind the front is the easiest to let and the most convenient to own, and it also absorbs the noise, the parking pressure, the salt and the congestion. One or two rows back often delivers the same outlook with a fraction of the disturbance, which is why the street is worth walking at eleven at night in August.

Porto Carras, the Marina and Berths

The Porto Carras estate sits directly south of town and concentrates facilities found nowhere else in Chalkidiki: a large marina, a golf course, hotel and spa capacity, private beaches and one of the country's biggest organic vineyards. Owners in Neos Marmaras get the use of that infrastructure without carrying any of its upkeep, and it lengthens the visitor season well beyond the beach months.

The market effect is measurable, with a premium attached to properties that reach the estate quickly. If a boat is part of your plan, treat the berth as a separate transaction with its own questions on availability, contract length, cost and winter storage. A mooring rarely transfers with a house, and a property should never be priced as though it does.

Beaches and Coves on Either Side

The town beach and neighbouring Paradisos are the two that owners actually use day to day, both walkable from much of the built area, both sandy and both busy in high summer. They are convenience beaches rather than scenery beaches, and that is precisely their value to a resident.

South of the estate the coast turns wilder, with Tristinika and a run of coves facing the low islets of Spalathronisia. Northwards, towards Lagomandra and the pine-backed bays around Elia, the beaches are shorter, more sheltered and generally quieter. Decide early which of the two coastlines you want on your doorstep, because both are within a short drive and they suit very different owners.

Micro-Locations Within the Town

Four quarters account for most of what is offered. The harbour strip and the streets behind it: maximum convenience, maximum summer intensity, mostly apartments and commercial space. The middle tiers: the residential heart, maisonettes and small blocks, good views over the roofline, a real neighbourhood in winter. The upper streets and the ridge: detached houses, larger terraces, wide gulf views, steep access. The southern approach towards the estate: newer complexes, more space per euro, dependence on the car.

The Ridge Above and the Village Behind

Behind the built town the land rises quickly into pine, olive terraces and open hillside. This is where the largest plots and the most private houses are, and where the outlook is broadest, taking in the gulf, the offshore islets and the sunsets the west coast is known for. It is also where access roads, water pressure and slope drainage become real questions rather than formalities.

Further up sits Parthenonas, the old stone village whose residents historically moved down to the coast and helped form the settlement that became Neos Marmaras. It offers a completely different product, stone architecture and mountain quiet instead of harbour life, and many buyers view in both places before deciding which version of Sithonia they actually want.

Daily Supply and the Rhythm of the Year

The town carries supermarkets, bakeries, butchers, pharmacies, banking and cash machines, fuel, hardware and building suppliers, primary care and schooling for the resident community, with hospital treatment in Polygyros and Thessaloniki. Check whatever matters to you personally, and check it out of season rather than in August.

Few places on the peninsula change as much between August and February. In high season the promenade is full late into the night and parking is genuinely difficult; from late autumn the town contracts to its residents, some tavernas close, and the streets go quiet without going empty. Both versions are relevant, because the winter position governs maintenance and trades while the summer position governs whether the street is liveable at all.

Neos Marmaras Set Against Its Neighbours

Nikiti to the north is the peninsula's other year-round town, flatter and more workaday, with a protected old settlement of stone houses, and it suits buyers who want services without the resort tempo. Toroni further south trades activity for a long open beach and a much quieter winter, while Porto Koufo at the southern tip offers a deep natural harbour and fishing-port character rather than a promenade.

On the eastern side, Vourvourou is sheltered, island-scattered and nature-led with far fewer services, and Sarti pairs dramatic beaches with a short, intense working season. Read against that field, Neos Marmaras is the compromise candidate in the best sense: more infrastructure than the villages, more genuine town life than the resorts. A full view of the peninsula is on our Sithonia property overview.

What Reaches the Market and How

Supply here is broader than in the Sithonia villages but not deep in any one category. Apartments and maisonettes in the middle tiers appear regularly. Detached houses with a clear gulf view come up far less often and sell quickly, usually to somebody already waiting. Plots on the upper slopes circulate irregularly, often within families.

A meaningful share of the better stock is never advertised. Owners in a town this size prefer a discreet sale, and agents work from registered briefs rather than from a portal. If your requirement is at all specific, describing it to a locally based agency is the difference between a shortlist and a single compromise.

Price Levels and What Moves Them

Sithonia sits at the top of the Chalkidiki range. Asking prices collected from the portals for the second quarter of 2026 average around three thousand euro per square metre across the peninsula, ahead of Kassandra and some way ahead of the mainland around Kallikratia. Figures of that kind describe a region rather than a street, and our Chalkidiki property market report explains the sources and their limits.

Inside the town the variables that genuinely move a price are the quality and permanence of the outlook, the walking distance and gradient to the front, parking, the legal cleanliness of title and permits, construction period and standard, and whether the terrace is usable in the afternoon or only in the photographs. Height on the slope buys view and costs effort, and the market prices both.

Letting Demand and Season Length

The letting window here is longer than in the seasonal villages, because the town, the estate and the marina all generate reasons to visit outside the beach months. July and August remain the core, June and September carry real demand, and May and October produce a thinner but genuine shoulder. Guests are largely families and couples from Greece, the Balkans, Germany and central Europe.

Build the numbers from the specific property, not from a regional headline, since cleaning, laundry, platform commission, management, utilities, maintenance, insurance and tax all sit between gross income and what reaches you. Short-term letting in Greece is regulated and registered, so permitted use and registration belong in the due diligence rather than the year after completion.

Plots, Zoning and Buildability

Land around the town divides sharply. Plots inside the town plan follow defined coverage, height and setback rules and connect to existing networks. Outside it, out-of-plan rules apply, and minimum area, legal road frontage, permitted footprint and access must each be established before the parcel has any building value at all.

On this hillside, three further layers appear often: forest register status on the wooded upper slopes, the shoreline and beach zone on anything near the water, and seasonal watercourses running down the gradient, each with its own setback. Any of them can quietly remove buildability from a parcel that looks entirely ordinary. Our land and building plots guide takes the checks one by one.

The Property Types on Offer

In practice you will meet apartments in blocks of varying age and standard, maisonettes on two or three levels within small complexes, detached houses and pool villas on the slopes and the southern approach, building plots inside and outside the plan, and a modest amount of commercial space in the grid behind the front, from shops and cafes to small seasonal rooms-to-let buildings.

The word used in an advertisement carries no legal weight. A property described as a villa may be an independent house on its own plot or a unit inside a horizontal ownership structure sharing road, garden and pool. Which of the two it is governs the extent of your title, the bills you share with neighbours, your freedom to alter anything and how easily the next buyer is found. Settle it before price comes up.

Apartments and Maisonettes

This is the largest and most accessible segment in the town and the easiest to own from a distance, since maintenance is shared and letting is simple to run. Value turns on floor and orientation, the condition of the building rather than the unit, what the deed says about shared parts, whether a building fund exists and is funded, parking rights, and whether the balcony is usable in the afternoon.

Ask specifically about the roof, the facade, the risers and the electrical installation, because in a coastal block that is where deferred maintenance gathers and where an owner meets an unexpected shared assessment years later. Our apartments in Chalkidiki guide covers the segment in more depth.

Villas and Pool Houses on the Slope

The houses on the upper streets and the ridge are what most people picture when they imagine owning here: a wide outlook, ground around the building and no immediate neighbours. Because far fewer of them exist than apartments, the sound ones are gone quickly.

The recurring technical questions are gradient and water. Confirm that the access road is legally usable and physically maintained, that retaining walls and terracing are sound, that surface water is led away from the structure rather than towards it, and that mains pressure is adequate at that height. A pool on a slope adds its own drainage, plant and safety questions. Our villa buyer's guide works through the category.

Sea View, First Line and the Shore Zone

On a stacked hillside almost everything has some view, which makes the phrase close to meaningless in a listing. What matters is what stands between the property and the water, how high it may legally become, and whether the plots below are built, buildable or protected by their own gradient. Check the outlook seated, at terrace height, and have an engineer confirm what may be built underneath you.

Front-line property along the harbour and promenade is limited and priced accordingly, and the term is used loosely, so establish whether there is direct frontage, a road in between, or an outlook across other buildings. Coastal property also sits within a defined shoreline and beach zone framework that governs what may be built, extended, fenced or paved, and that boundary is read from the records, never inferred from what stands there today.

New Build and Off-Plan

New construction here is generally small in scale: individual houses on the upper slopes, or complexes of a handful of maisonettes on the edges of town, built to current insulation and glazing standards with pools and letting in mind. Low building heights keep the tiered skyline broadly intact, which is one reason the town still looks the way it does.

An off-plan purchase needs protections a completed sale does not. The seller's title to the land, a valid permit, a written technical specification rather than a brochure, payments tied to verified stages, a completion date with consequences for delay and a defined warranty position all belong in the contract, and your own engineer should inspect at the agreed stages. The framework is in our off-plan and new-build guide.

Older Buildings and Renovation Candidates

A large part of the town was built between the 1970s and the early 2000s, much of it for summer use and much of it well positioned. These properties are often the better value once the arithmetic is done honestly, which means adding the cost of bringing the building to the standard you actually want.

Expect insulation and windows, a heating system, new wiring, bathrooms and a kitchen, roof sealing, and the regularisation of whatever was added over the decades without a permit. They also produce most of the legal knots, usually alterations that were never declared or a title split among several heirs. Both are normally solvable, and both need to surface before the offer rather than at the notary.

Buying Land Around the Town

On a slope like this one, land is often the shortest route to the house you actually want, and it is also the purchase in which knowing what to ask makes the greatest difference. The money buys a permission rather than a surface: what a permit will allow, how soon, and what it costs to bring services to the spot.

Establish before purchase the status inside or outside the town plan, registered area against measured area, legal road frontage and access, permitted coverage and height, forest and archaeological position, distance from the shore zone, and the real cost of bringing water, power and drainage to the building position on a gradient. The general framework is in our buying land in Greece guide.

A Holiday Home That Gets Used

For holiday use the deciding factors are all about friction. How long from the aircraft door to the front door with luggage. Where the car goes in August. How many steps there are. Who opens the house and who looks at it in February. Properties that score well on these get used every year; the others quietly stop being visited.

Neos Marmaras does well on that measure because services stay open, trades live locally and much of the town works on foot. Decide at the outset whether the property will also be let, since that changes layout, furnishing, storage, key handling and even which tier you should buy in. Our holiday home guide works through the choice.

Living Here All Year

This is one of the two realistic year-round addresses on Sithonia, and the criteria change accordingly. Heating, insulation and glazing move ahead of terrace size, indoor living space ahead of sunbeds, storage and a utility area ahead of a guest room used twice a year. Many houses here were built for July and behave accordingly in January.

Paperwork deserves the same forethought. A tax number and a bank account come first, then health cover, a residence permit for non-EU nationals, the car, and every supply contract switched into your name. All are manageable and all are easier arranged in advance. Our living in Chalkidiki guide describes what daily life actually involves.

Retirement in a Town on a Slope

For retirement the town offers company, services and primary care within a small radius, together with a flat walkable strip along the water. The qualification is the gradient. A property three tiers up with a view is a pleasure at sixty and a logistical problem at eighty, and the difference is measured in steps rather than in metres.

If a long horizon matters, prioritise the lower and flatter streets, single-level layouts or at least essential rooms on one floor, parking close to the door, and a garden that can be kept in an hour. The tax and residence side is covered in our retiring in Greece guide, and your own position should be confirmed with a Greek tax adviser.

The Investment Case

The argument for Neos Marmaras rests on demand that exists for several different reasons at once: beach holidays, the marina and golf, hotel and conference traffic, and a resident population. That mixture lengthens the season and broadens the pool of future buyers, which matters as much at resale as it does at letting.

Figures circulating for Chalkidiki put gross yields somewhere between about five and seven and a half per cent, on a data base far too thin to carry weight, and individual results scatter widely around it. Treat any such figure as orientation, build your own calculation from realistic weekly rates, honest occupancy, every operating cost and a coastal maintenance reserve, then test it against a weak season.

Golden Visa and Property Here

Chalkidiki falls inside the four hundred thousand euro threshold zone of the Greek residence-by-investment programme rather than the higher band applied to Attica, Thessaloniki and the larger islands. Conditions ride along with the threshold: the qualifying purchase must be one property rather than several, it must meet a minimum size, and it may not be let on a short-term basis.

Ownership and residence remain separate matters. A purchase on its own gives you no right to live in Greece. It can underpin an application, and that application then runs as a separate administrative track with its own file and waiting times. The rules were amended again in 2026, so confirm thresholds and procedure for your year of signature. Our Golden Visa guide is kept current and qualifying properties are listed separately.

Legal Due Diligence

Instruct an independent Greek lawyer, chosen and paid by you, before any deposit changes hands. The lawyer traces ownership back through the deeds, satisfies themselves that the seller may actually sell, reads the Cadastre and Land Registry entries, looks for mortgages, seizures and competing claims, untangles inheritance shares where several heirs are involved, and checks that the building as it stands is covered by permits.

The engineer's certificate confirming the absence of unauthorised construction, or the completed legalisation of any that exists, is a required element and is where problems usually surface in older buildings. Outstanding property taxes, municipal charges and utility debts belong in the same check. The order in which all this happens is set out in our legal due diligence guide, and who does what in the lawyer, notary and land registry guide.

Technical and Structural Inspection

Send a civil engineer over the frame and any cracking, the roof and its sealing, damp and salt attack, the insulated envelope and the windows, the wiring and whether it complies, the pipework and drains, heating and cooling, and every terrace, balcony and retaining wall on the plot.

On this hillside, add three local questions: how surface water behaves on the plot during heavy autumn rain, whether any retaining wall shows movement or poor drainage behind it, and how the building performs between November and March, since a house designed for summer can be uncomfortable and expensive to heat in a Sithonia winter. Get the findings in writing before signing, and use them either to adjust the price or to budget the first year of works properly.

Wind, Salt, Slope and Fire

Aspect matters here more than most buyers expect. The western exposure delivers the sunsets, and also the afternoon sun and the weather arriving across the gulf, so shading, glazing and the condition of external metalwork and timber deserve attention. Salt shortens the life of fixings, air-conditioning units, pool plant and railings, and raises how often maintenance is needed rather than simply what it costs.

On the slopes, water management, terracing and seasonal watercourses are the practical risks, and in the pine above the town, fire is. Ask about defensible space around the building, clearance obligations, and whether emergency vehicles can genuinely reach the property on the access road as it exists rather than as it is drawn.

Energy, Utilities and Winter Comfort

An energy certificate is required for the transaction but does not tell you how a building feels in use. What tells you more is how the walls are built and insulated, what the windows and frames are made of, what shades the house in July, what the heating costs to run, and whether you can warm two rooms instead of nine. Ask what the previous owners actually paid through a normal winter.

Confirm that water, electricity and drainage exist legally, are registered and carry no debt, and outside the town plan establish whether drainage is a septic system or a sealed tank and where it discharges on a slope. Two questions are specific to a tiered town: water pressure at height in the peak weeks, and electrical capacity if you plan a heat pump, a pool or a charger.

Gradients, Access and Parking

Parking is the most consistently underestimated factor here. In high season the streets behind the front are under real pressure, and a property with its own dedicated space is materially easier both to live in and to let. Some of the upper lanes are narrow, steep and awkward to turn in, and a few are effectively one-way in practice if not in law.

For anything above the middle tiers, confirm the legal status of the access road and who maintains it, since shared private access without a written arrangement is a familiar source of later disputes. Count the steps between the car and the front door, and the steps inside the house as well. That figure quietly determines how many years the property stays easy for its owners.

Your Brief and How to Use Viewings

A workable brief is short and honest about trade-offs. State the intended use and the weeks per year, the total budget including transaction costs and first-year works, the bedrooms you genuinely need, the maximum walk and the maximum climb you will accept, whether letting is intended, and what you are prepared to give up. In a tiered town the recurring trade is view against effort.

Then group appointments by tier rather than by property type, so you compare like with like and learn the streets instead of the individual houses. Visit a shortlisted property twice at different hours, walk the surroundings without the agent, and photograph the meters, the roof, the terraces, the boundaries and the retaining walls while the questions for your lawyer and engineer are still fresh.

Buying Without Being in Greece

Many purchases here are completed by buyers who cannot travel repeatedly, and that works provided the process is structured. Insist on live video rather than a produced film, and make sure it takes in the approach road, the climb, the neighbours, the plant rooms and the faults, not only the terrace and the panorama.

Granting your Greek lawyer a power of attorney keeps the file moving while you are at home. Draft it early and define exactly what it does and does not permit, rather than assembling it in a hurry near completion. A Greek tax number is compulsory and a Greek account is close to it. Both take longer than expected, and what you have to produce is listed in our required documents guide.

Making an Offer

An offer carries more weight when it is specific. Write down what you are paying, how and when you will pay it, what has to check out legally and technically before you are bound, which furniture and equipment stay in the house, and the date the offer lapses.

In a town where good properties in the stronger tiers do not stay available for long, a prepared buyer with a lawyer already instructed and funds demonstrably in place has a genuine advantage over a higher but vague offer. Let your lawyer read any reservation or preliminary agreement before you sign it, and make sure the deposit sits on stated terms with stated circumstances in which it comes back.

Purchase Costs, Budget and Financing

Above the agreed price sit the transfer tax, the registration and cadastre charges, and the fees of the notary, your lawyer, your engineer and the agency, with translation and a power of attorney where needed. As a working assumption these reach a single-digit percentage of the price, though the real number varies with the property and should be costed for your own transaction. A second budget covers holding it: the yearly tax, municipal charges, utilities, insurance, upkeep, garden and pool, a manager in your absence, and a fund for roof and terrace works. Our costs and taxes guide sets out the framework.

Most international purchases in Chalkidiki are completed with equity. Greek banks do lend to non-residents, selectively: modest loan-to-value ratios, evidence of income and of where the money came from, their own valuation, and a schedule the contract has to reflect. Settle the route before you make an offer, and start the transfer and compliance paperwork early. The options are compared in our mortgages and financing guide.

Ownership Form and Shared Property

Settle the holding structure before the contract is drafted: a sole name, two names, relatives with fixed shares and a corporate vehicle are four different answers. Each has consequences for taxation, succession and the ease of a later sale, and restructuring afterwards is expensive.

Shared structures are common here because so much of the stock sits in small complexes and blocks. Where a pool, a garden, a private road or a parking area is held in common, read what the deed and the building regulation actually say about costs, use, alterations and decision-making. When relatives buy jointly, a page of written understanding at the outset heads off most of what becomes an argument a decade later. Note too that Greek succession law governs Greek property whoever owns it and wherever they live.

Process, Notary and Registration

The running order rarely varies. Brief and budget first, then viewings and a shortlist. Alongside those, a tax number, a bank account and a lawyer of your own. Then terms, a conditional deposit, the legal and technical checks, the notary's draft deed, the transfer tax, signature, and finally registration.

The notary drafts the deed and confirms it is formally sound, but advises nobody; that role is your lawyer's. Registration at the Land Registry or Cadastre is what makes your ownership good against third parties, so check it has actually happened. From accepted offer to signature is normally weeks, longer where inheritance or legalisations intervene. Each stage is described in our property buying process guide, with the position of overseas purchasers in the buying as a foreigner guide.

After Completion: Running the Property

The first weeks are administrative: supplies into your name, the property entered for tax, a policy in force, new locks, and someone appointed to keep keys and look in. Then the routine: opening and cleaning before arrivals, seasonal maintenance, garden and pool, boiler servicing, and an inspection after heavy autumn weather, which on a slope is when problems announce themselves.

Absent owners are better served by a defined arrangement than an informal one, covering inspection, key handling, cleaning, maintenance, utility and tax administration, repairs and guest handling. Agree scope, reporting and cost in writing, since dissatisfaction usually comes not from the standard of work but from an unclear understanding of what was included. Our property management service in Chalkidiki covers these tasks across the region.

Renovating in Neos Marmaras

Repainting a house and rebuilding one belong to different worlds of permits, calendars and money. Which of the two you are taking on should be settled by an engineer's written assessment before you buy, not by an impression formed on a viewing.

Two local factors push costs above the regional norm. Access on the upper streets is tight, which affects deliveries, scaffolding and machinery, and high season effectively closes the working calendar, since neither neighbours nor the town tolerate building work in August. Book the work for winter and spring, put the specification and a stage-linked payment plan in writing, and appoint someone on the ground to watch it if you cannot. Unsupervised remote renovation is where most overruns start.

Insurance

The sum insured should reflect what rebuilding would cost, not what the house would fetch. Then read the perils list closely, because on a seismic coast the ones that matter are tremor, storm, flooding, escaping water, fire and burglary. Standard policies do not always include all of them, and the exclusions matter far more than the headline premium.

Where the house is let, check that the wording covers paying guests and carries liability cover to match. Plenty of ordinary residential policies do not, and a claim is a bad moment to learn it. Notify the insurer about extended vacancy, since prolonged emptiness can affect cover, and review the sum insured after any significant renovation.

Resale and Long-Term Value

Properties that sell on well here share recognisable features: complete documentation, a location that is either genuinely walkable or genuinely private, an outlook protected by topography or building rules rather than by luck, sound construction, a sensible layout and visible upkeep.

The slow sellers almost always have a single nameable obstacle: an open legal question, a driveway nobody wants to use, a floor plan built around one family's habits, years of postponed repairs, or an asking price set by what the owner once paid. Nothing protects future value so cheaply as keeping the paperwork complete for as long as you own the house. Our selling guide for Chalkidiki and our property valuation service describe what a purchaser will want to see when that day comes.

Mistakes We See Here

Judging the town on an August visit alone, or on a February one. Both are real and both are partial, and either on its own is half the information.

The rest are practical. Underestimating the climb. Waving away the parking question. Taking the view for granted. Signing for land before anyone has confirmed in writing that it can be built on. Leaning on the seller's lawyer. Skipping the engineer on a forty-year-old house. Budgeting the price and nothing else. The most expensive of all is moving quickly on an emotional reaction to the outlook. The outlook is generally real enough. Whether the rest of the house will still suit you in twenty years is the harder question.

How We Work With Buyers Here

We are based in Chalkidiki and accompany buyers from the first conversation through to ownership and afterwards. That covers sharpening the brief, finding suitable properties including those never publicly advertised, arranging and attending viewings, and saying plainly where a property is weak as well as where it is strong.

We coordinate the professionals a purchase requires, work alongside your own lawyer and engineer, and keep the parties moving, which matters most for buyers who are not in Greece. Once the deed is signed we can carry on with upkeep, works and letting. The first consultation is free and without obligation.

Neos Marmaras Buyer Checklist

• Decide which altitude band of the town you are actually shopping in.
• Fix the intended use, the weeks per year and whether you will let.
• Put transaction costs and first-year works into the budget from the start.
• Walk the route from the parking position to the door, uphill, with shopping.
• See the street in high season and out of season before committing.
• Have the permanence of the view confirmed against the building rules below.
• Appoint your own Greek lawyer before any money moves.
• Have a civil engineer report on any building of a certain age.
• Check retaining walls, terracing and surface water drainage on sloping plots.
• Verify title, permits, legalisations and the cadastre position in writing.
• For plots, confirm buildability, access, forest status and connection costs first.
• Confirm water pressure at height and electrical capacity for your plans.
• Treat any boat berth as a separate matter from the property.
• Apply for the Greek tax number and open the bank account in good time.
• Arrange management and key holding before your first absence.

Related Guides and Services

• Property for Sale in Chalkidiki
• Buying Property in Greece: Complete Guide
• The Property Buying Process in Greece
• Purchase Costs and Taxes in Greece
• Legal Due Diligence
• Golden Visa Greece
• Chalkidiki Property Market Report
• Property Management in Chalkidiki
• Living in Chalkidiki
• Selling Property in Chalkidiki