Property for Sale in Vatopedi, Chalkidiki

Off-Market Properties in Vatopedi

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The Vatopedi Market at a Glance

Turnover here is low and largely invisible. Properties change hands between families, through word of mouth in Thessaloniki, and occasionally through a single local notice, so the portals show only a fraction of what is genuinely available. A buyer relying on published listings alone will form a badly incomplete picture of the settlement.

The stock divides sharply. Perhaps half of what sells is undeveloped land, either inside the settlement boundary or on the fields behind it. The rest is holiday housing of varying vintage, from breeze-block cottages with a vine over the terrace to competent modern maisonettes. Genuine year-round family homes are the rarest category.

Prices sit below the headline resorts of Kassandra and Sithonia while still carrying a coastal premium over the villages inland. That middle position is precisely why the settlement interests buyers who want salt water at the end of the street without the price tag attached to a famous name.

Who Buys Here and Why

Three groups dominate. Greek families from Thessaloniki, who have owned along this coast for generations and now buy or sell within the family circle. Northern European purchasers who have already toured the two peninsulas, found them expensive or crowded, and want something plainer. And a smaller number of buyers acquiring land with a view to building exactly what they want.

The common motivation is quiet. This is a coast where you can park outside your own gate in mid-August, walk to the water in four minutes and hear nothing at midnight. Buyers who need nightlife, a marina or a supermarket within walking distance are consistently disappointed, and they are looking in the wrong place rather than at a shortcoming of the settlement.

Position on the Gulf and Getting There

The settlement lies on the northern shore of the Kassandra gulf, on the coastal road that runs between the bays east of the peninsula turn-off. The approach is flat and easy, the road is ordinary tarmac rather than a mountain climb, and the drive from the city is one of the shortest of any beach location in Chalkidiki. That accessibility is one of the settlement's strongest and least advertised assets.

An hour from the terminal changes what a holiday house can be used for. A long weekend becomes practical, an owner can come down for two nights in April, and a letting property can be turned around between guests without the journey swallowing the day.

The Shore and the Bathing Water

The beach at Vatopedi is a working local beach rather than an organised resort strip. Expect sand mixed with fine shingle in places, shallow entry, a few tavernas and umbrella lines in the season, and long empty stretches once September arrives. The gulf here is sheltered compared with the open Aegean side of the peninsulas, which keeps the water calm through most of the summer.

Sheltered water has a practical consequence: it can warm and become weedy in still weather, and after a strong southerly the shoreline collects debris. None of this troubles a swimmer, but it matters to anyone imagining a permanently postcard-perfect view from the terrace.

Walk the shore in both directions before you decide on a specific address. Within a few hundred metres the character changes between open sand, low rock, drainage outfalls and the boundary of the next settlement, and those differences are invisible from a listing photograph.

How the Settlement Is Built

Vatopedi grew as a summer settlement rather than as an old village, which shows in the layout. Streets run in a loose grid back from the water, plot sizes are generous by Greek coastal standards, boundary walls and hedges are the norm, and buildings are mostly one or two storeys standing detached in their own gardens.

Depth from the sea organises everything. The front row looks straight at the water and pays the most for it. The second and third streets keep a partial view over neighbouring roofs and are quieter at night. Further back, plots are larger, prices drop noticeably and you are trading the view for garden space and a short walk.

Ask which row a property stands in and what is on the empty plot next door, because the vacant garden that gives you a sea glimpse today can legally become a two-storey house next year.

Building Plots, the Dominant Product

Land is what Vatopedi mostly sells. Inside the approved settlement boundary the position is comparatively clear, with defined minimum sizes, coverage ratios and heights. On the agricultural land behind the settlement the rules are quite different, larger minimum areas apply, and what you may build is limited even where the parcel is legally buildable.

Never take a seller's description of buildability at face value. A licensed civil engineer should confirm the classification, the applicable coverage and height, the road frontage, the distance from the shoreline and whether any archaeological or environmental designation applies to that parcel. This coast has a long history of settlement, and archaeological oversight in the wider area is real rather than theoretical.

Two pages cover the procedure in full: building plots and land across Chalkidiki, and the step-by-step treatment of how land is bought in Greece.

The Foreshore Zone and the First Row

Greek law defines a public foreshore strip, the aigialos, together with an adjoining zone, and both are delimited by formal administrative decision. Where that line has been drawn determines what a seafront owner may build, rebuild, fence or extend, and in some places the line has been redrawn more recently than the buildings behind it.

For a first-row property this is the single most important question in the file. Ask specifically whether the foreshore delimitation has been published for this stretch, where it runs in relation to the plot boundary, and whether every structure on the plot, including terraces, steps and boundary walls, sits legally behind it. An engineer and a lawyer answer this together, and they answer it before you pay a deposit.

Sea Views from the Slope Behind

Not every sea view here comes from the front row. The ground rises gently behind the settlement, and houses on that higher ground often look over the roofs to open water while sitting on larger, cheaper plots with better air movement on a hot night.

The test for any elevated view is what stands between you and the water and who owns it. A view across three vacant plots is not a protected view. Establish the building rights on every parcel in the sightline, and price the property on what it will still see when those plots are developed.

Elevated positions also behave better in a storm and dry out faster after rain, two advantages that owners of front-row houses learn to appreciate over the winter.

August and the Other Eleven Months

The rhythm of the settlement is pronounced. From late June to early September the houses fill, the tavernas open, traffic on the coastal road doubles and the water is busy. Through the rest of the year most shutters stay closed, one or two places serve coffee, and the beach belongs to dog walkers.

Buyers should decide honestly which of those two places they are buying into. A property chosen for the July version can feel bleak in a wet February, while one chosen for the quiet is easier to love in winter and slightly crowded in high summer. Neither is a flaw, but the mismatch causes most of the regret we see.

Visit at least twice, in different months, before committing. A single August viewing shows you the settlement at its most flattering and least representative.

Whether You Can Live Here All Year

Permanent residence is entirely workable, and a growing number of people do it, largely because the regional capital and its services are twenty minutes up the road. Children can be schooled there, medical care is close by Greek rural standards, and the commute is short and flat rather than a mountain drive.

The social side is different. Out of season the settlement is thinly populated, and daily life happens in Polygyros or in the neighbouring villages rather than on your own street. People who need a community around the corner will find winter here quiet, while those who value privacy find it ideal.

Practically, a house intended for permanent use needs proper heating, insulation and glazing, none of which the average nineteen-nineties summer build has. Budget for that from the outset rather than discovering it in November. Our overview of living in Chalkidiki covers registration, utilities and healthcare.

Shops, Tavernas and Services

Day to day provision is seasonal and small: a mini-market, bakery deliveries, tavernas that open with the season and a beach bar or two. For a full shop, a pharmacy at all hours, banks and public offices, residents drive to Polygyros, and for larger retail and the big supermarkets to Nea Moudania.

That dependence on the car is unremarkable in the summer and defines winter life. If you plan to live here permanently, look honestly at how comfortable you are driving twenty minutes for a prescription or a plumbing part, because you will be doing it often.

Internet provision along this coast is generally sound and adequate for remote work, though speeds vary between streets. As with any Greek coastal settlement, test the connection in the house itself rather than trusting a coverage map.

Water, Drainage and Summer Pressure

The distinguishing utility question on this coast is what happens in August, when a settlement built for a few hundred permanent residents suddenly holds several times that number. Water pressure can drop at peak hours, particularly in the higher streets, and many houses fit a storage tank and a booster pump as a matter of course.

Waste water is the second question. Where no mains drainage reaches, properties rely on septic systems, and the condition, capacity and emptying arrangements of the tank matter far more in a house that sleeps ten in August than in one occupied by two people all year. Ask to see the tank, not just to be told about it.

Establish also whether any charges or connection obligations are outstanding, and confirm that meters and accounts transfer cleanly at completion. These are small items that become tedious once you own the property.

Vatopedi Against the Neighbouring Bays

Gerakini immediately west is larger, better supplied and busier, with hotels and a longer organised beach, and it prices accordingly. Psakoudia to the east is a developed holiday village with more apartments and more summer noise. Vatopedi sits between the two as the quiet option, with fewer facilities and correspondingly lower prices.

Behind the coast the comparison changes completely. Olynthos offers agricultural land and an inland village at lower cost, while the upland settlements such as Taxiarchis, Vavdos and the wider Holomontas area trade the sea for forest, cool summers and much lower entry prices.

The choice usually comes down to one question: do you want to walk to the water, or do you want space and quiet with the sea half an hour away. Buyers who answer honestly rarely regret it.

What Comes Up for Sale

Beyond land, the recurring offerings are self-built summer houses from the nineteen eighties and nineties, later maisonettes in small groups of two to six units, a handful of larger detached houses with pools, and the occasional part-finished shell where a family project stalled.

Older summer houses deserve particular caution. They were often built in stages, sometimes with a licence covering only part of what stands today, frequently with single glazing, no thermal insulation and plumbing that has spent thirty years near salt air. Many are perfectly sound and excellent value, but the phrase needs work covers a wide range here.

Part-finished shells look cheap and rarely are. Establish why the work stopped, whether the permit is still valid, what the existing structure is worth technically, and whether the family owning it can all sign, before treating the asking price as a bargain.

Price Level and What Moves It

For orientation, the Spitogatos series for the second quarter of 2026 reported asking prices in Sithonia of about 3,000 euros per square metre, in Kassandra about 2,895 and along the Kallikratia stretch about 2,513. This settlement is not among the reported zones, and the smaller bays of the Polygyros coast generally sit below the two peninsulas. How far such figures can be stretched is discussed in our market report for Chalkidiki.

Locally, four factors move the number: distance to the water measured in streets rather than metres, whether a genuine sea view exists and is protected, the legal cleanliness of the building file, and the plot size. Interior finish influences the asking price far less than sellers expect.

Because so few transactions occur, individual asking prices vary widely. Comparable evidence needs to be assembled deliberately rather than read off a portal average.

Holiday Letting on This Stretch

Letting demand exists but is short and concentrated. The reliable weeks run from late June to early September, with a Greek domestic peak in August and weekend demand from Thessaloniki at the shoulders. There is no winter market to speak of, and spring and autumn produce occasional bookings rather than steady occupancy.

Published figures for the peninsula put gross returns at somewhere from 5.4 per cent up to 7.5 per cent, but that band comes from a limited data set and lumps very different products together. A quiet settlement without hotels or organised entertainment will usually sit at the lower end unless the property itself is exceptional, well presented and actively managed.

Registration, tax treatment and the practicalities of changeover days all need planning before purchase rather than after. Our page on property management in Chalkidiki describes what running a let from abroad actually involves.

Holiday Houses, Maisonettes and Villas

The most common purchase is a detached one or two-storey house on its own plot, with a covered terrace, a garden of fruit trees and an outdoor shower. These suit families, are easy to maintain and carry no shared ownership complications, which makes them straightforward to resell.

Small maisonette groups are the next category. They offer lower purchase prices and shared costs, but they bring a shared building regulation, common areas and neighbours whose habits you cannot control in August. Read the horizontal ownership documents carefully and establish how decisions about the common parts are actually taken.

Larger villas with pools exist but are scarce, and the ones that appear are usually recent. If a pool matters to you, verify how it is permitted, filtered and drained, and factor in the running cost of maintaining it through a season when you may be present for only three weeks. Our guide to villas in Chalkidiki covers the wider market.

New Build and Off-Plan

Because plots are the dominant product, a good deal of what reaches the market as new build here starts as somebody's land purchase. Small developers put up pairs or short terraces of maisonettes, and individual buyers commission single houses from a local engineer and builder.

Both routes work, and both depend on the contract. Staged payments tied to verified progress, a defined completion date with consequences, clear specification down to the level of insulation and glazing, and retention against defects are the four things that separate a smooth build from a difficult one. Each of those is examined on our page about new-build and off-plan buying in Greece.

Specify for the coast rather than for a catalogue. Marine-grade fittings, shutters that genuinely close, sensible shading on the west face and a roof detail that copes with driven rain matter more here than an expensive kitchen.

Modernising a Summer House

Upgrading an older holiday house is frequently the best value available in Vatopedi, because the plot and the position are already secured and the building can be brought up to standard step by step. Insulation, glazing, rewiring, a new bathroom layout and a heat pump transform a July cottage into a house usable in March.

Work out early which items need a permit and which do not. Anything touching the structure, the roof or the external appearance normally does, and coastal locations attract closer scrutiny where the shoreline zone is involved. Retrospective regularisation of past work is often possible but adds time and cost that belong in the purchase calculation.

Sequence the work around the season. Materials, trades and delivery access are all easier outside July and August, and a renovation timed to finish in June rather than starting in June will cost less and take less time.

Retirement on a Quiet Coast

For retirement, this coast has real advantages: flat terrain, a short and easy drive to the regional capital, mild winters compared with the mountains behind, and a level of quiet that suits people who have had enough of cities. Walking to the sea every morning is a genuinely different way to live.

The counterweights are the winter emptiness and the dependence on a car. A retirement plan that assumes services within walking distance will not survive contact with reality here, so favour a single-storey layout, level access from the parking space, and a location within the settlement rather than on an isolated plot outside it.

Pensions, tax residency and healthcare registration should be settled before the move with advice specific to your own country. Begin with our page on retirement in Greece.

Vatopedi as an Investment

The investment case rests on position rather than on yield. This is a coastal address inside an hour of a major airport and twenty minutes from a regional capital, in a settlement that has not been built out. Land held here is a bet on that combination becoming more valuable as the busier resorts fill up.

Income, by contrast, is modest and seasonal, and it will not carry a purchase on its own. Anyone whose primary objective is cash flow should look at larger resorts with established rental infrastructure, or at year-round urban letting, rather than at a summer settlement of this size.

The clearest value creation here comes from buying land or a tired house and improving it competently, which is a project rather than a passive investment and should be budgeted as one.

Golden Visa Considerations

Chalkidiki sits in the 400,000 euro category of the Greek residence-by-investment programme rather than the higher urban threshold. Under the current framework the sum has to go into one property, a minimum size applies, and the qualifying property may not be let on a short-term basis, which rules out combining residence with a holiday-let strategy on the same house. Further changes arrived with Law 5275/2026.

In Vatopedi that threshold is above the ordinary market for a summer house, so a qualifying purchase would usually mean a larger modern villa or a substantial new build. It is possible, but it should be structured deliberately rather than assumed.

Our pages on the golden visa in Greece and on properties that qualify set out the detail, and the position should be confirmed for whichever year you sign in. Holding title and holding a residence permit remain two different things.

Defining What You Are Looking For

The brief that works on this coast is specific about three things: how far from the water you will accept measured in streets, whether a sea view is essential or merely welcome, and whether you are buying a finished house, a project or a plot. Those three answers eliminate most of the market immediately, which is exactly what you want.

Add the season you will actually use it. A property bought for August alone can be simpler and cheaper than one intended for six months of the year, which needs heating, insulation and a layout that works when the terrace is unusable.

State a total budget rather than a purchase price. Between fees, furnishing, a boundary wall, air conditioning and the works an older house will need, the difference is substantial and it decides which bracket you should be searching in.

Legal Checks on a Coastal Property

Instruct your own Greek lawyer, chosen and paid by you, before any money moves. A Greek notary acts for the transaction and not for either side, so the person watching your interests has to be someone you appointed, which matters a great deal where shoreline boundaries and part-permitted structures are involved.

On this coast the file should cover title history and any inheritance, the cadastral entry and plot boundaries, the foreshore delimitation and the property's position relative to it, the building permit and every subsequent amendment, the legality of terraces, pools and outbuildings, any archaeological or environmental restriction, and outstanding taxes or utility debts.

The full sequence appears on our pages covering due diligence before a Greek purchase and paperwork a buyer must produce. Allow time for it, because coastal files routinely take longer than urban ones.

The Engineer's Inspection

A civil engineer should inspect any building before you commit. The recurring findings in coastal summer stock are corroded reinforcement where concrete cover was thin, rusted balcony railings and window fittings, flat roofs whose waterproofing has failed, damp in ground-floor walls, and electrical installations that never anticipated air conditioning.

The engineer must also compare what stands on the plot against what the permit allows. Enclosed verandas, added rooms, pergolas turned into solid structures and boundary walls in the wrong place are all common, and each one is either a cost to regularise or a reason to renegotiate.

Insist on the report in writing with indicative costs. It is the document that turns a nervous feeling into a negotiating position.

Salt, Storms and Sea Wind

Living beside the gulf imposes a maintenance regime that inland owners never face. Salt air attacks metal, timber and render, prevailing winds drive rain against the seaward elevation, and a strong winter storm can move sand, block drains and test any structure close to the water.

Look for the evidence rather than asking about it. Rust streaks below railings, blistered paint on the seaward face, salt crust on glazing and patched render all indicate how hard the position works the building. A house two streets back will show noticeably less of this than one on the front.

Ask also about surface water. Flat coastal ground drains slowly, and a plot at the low point of a street can stand in water after an autumn downpour even when the sea is nowhere near it.

Cooling, Heating and Winter Damp

Summer comfort here is about shade and cross-ventilation before it is about air conditioning. Deep terraces, shutters, a west elevation that is protected and rooms that can be opened front to back make far more difference than an extra unit on the wall, and they cost nothing to run.

Winter is the neglected half. Most older houses on this coast were built without insulation, and heating them properly requires a heat pump, sealed openings and double glazing rather than a portable heater. If you intend to use the property outside the season, treat that upgrade as part of the purchase price.

Damp in a closed-up house is the practical consequence of skipping it. An unheated, unventilated coastal house develops mould over a wet winter, and the repair costs more than the electricity would have.

Roads, Access and Summer Parking

Most streets in the settlement are surfaced, but some side lanes and the tracks serving outlying plots are not, and responsibility for maintaining them is not always obvious. Establish whether the access to your property is a public road or a private right, and whether that right is registered rather than simply exercised.

Parking is easy for ten months and tight for two. A property with off-street space inside its own boundary is worth materially more in practice than one that relies on the street, and the difference only reveals itself in the first week of August.

If you are buying land, confirm the frontage onto a recognised road before anything else. A parcel without legal access cannot be built on, whatever its size and whatever the neighbours have historically been allowed to do.

Viewing Properties Here

See the property at least twice and preferably in different seasons. Go once at the height of the day to judge the shade, and once in the evening to hear what the street is like. If you can only visit in summer, at least drive through in the early morning to see the settlement without its holiday population.

Take the practical questions with you: which row is this, what is the building right on the plot opposite, where is the septic tank, when was the roof last done, does the water pressure hold in August, and what exactly does the permit cover. Photograph the seaward elevation, the roof edge and the ground-floor walls at skirting level.

Then walk to the beach from the door and time it. The distance in the listing and the distance on foot with two children and a cool box are not always the same number.

Buying from Another Country

Purchasing without being resident in Greece is routine. You will need a Greek tax number and a bank account, and either attendance at the signing or a power of attorney authorising your lawyer to act for you. Foreign documents generally require an apostille and certified translation, and that alone can add several weeks.

Keep any power of attorney tightly drawn: the specific property, a ceiling price, and an explicit list of what your representative may do. Convenience is not a reason to hand over open authority.

How the framework operates is described on our page for overseas purchasers in Greece. On this coast, impose one condition of your own: no purchase on the strength of video alone, because summer crowding, winter emptiness and the state of the seaward elevation are all things a camera flatters.

What the Purchase Costs on Top

Beyond the agreed price you will pay property transfer tax, notary fees, cadastre and registry charges, your lawyer, the engineer and agency commission. On land purchases, budget additionally for the survey and topographic work that the file will need.

No honest adviser gives a single all-in percentage. What can be said is that the total lands in single digits as a share of the price, is only calculable once property, parties and figure are settled, and weighs proportionally heavier on cheaper purchases because several items are fixed.

The individual charges are broken down under Greek purchase costs and taxes. Request a written estimate for your specific transaction before you commit to it.

Paying for It

Greek bank lending to non-resident buyers exists but is selective, and it is least available exactly where buyers here often want it: on bare land and on part-finished or partly unpermitted buildings. A finished, fully legal house with a clean file is a far easier proposition for a lender than a plot.

If you need finance, secure an indication in principle before you make an offer and expect a conservative valuation. Many buyers on this coast raise the money at home instead and complete as cash purchasers, which also strengthens their negotiating position.

The lending criteria appear on our page about financing and mortgages in Greece. Plan the currency transfer as deliberately as the loan, since the rate between agreement and completion can move more than any discount you negotiate.

From Offer to Registration

Make the offer in writing and attach conditions to it: satisfactory legal review, a satisfactory engineer's report, confirmation of the foreshore position where relevant, and confirmation that all owners are able and willing to sign. An unconditional offer removes your ability to react to what the checks find.

What follows is the standard Greek sequence: lawyer appointed, tax number and bank account arranged, checks completed, either a preliminary contract or a direct move to the deed, transfer tax paid, signature before the notary, registration. Most purchasers hold in their own names, and a company structure is worth considering only on specific tax advice.

Registration completes the transfer against third parties and is not a formality, especially on plots where boundaries and areas may differ between deed and cadastral map. Each stage is described on our pages about how a Greek purchase proceeds and about who does what among lawyer, notary and registry.

Looking After a Closed-Up House

A house shut from September to June needs someone to look at it. Storm damage, a blocked gutter, a leaking flat roof, a wasp nest in a shutter box and a garden that has swallowed the path are all normal outcomes of nine months of absence on this coast.

Arrange for regular airing, a check after every serious storm, gutter clearing before the autumn rain, and irrigation or at least survival watering for whatever is planted. Salt-laden air also means metalwork wants attention roughly every second year rather than every decade.

Whether you use a management company or a trusted local, agree in writing what is checked, how often, and who authorises repairs up to what amount. Vague arrangements produce vague results.

Insurance on the Coast

Read the policy for storm damage, water ingress through roofs and openings, and the treatment of an unoccupied property, since long vacancy clauses can quietly void cover on a house used only in summer. Flood and surface-water cover deserves particular attention on flat ground near the shore.

Earthquake cover is a separate decision in Greece and is frequently omitted from cheaper policies. Decide deliberately rather than by default, and check whether any pool, boundary wall or outbuilding is included in the sum insured.

Insure for reconstruction cost rather than for what you paid. On a plot bought largely for its position, the building may be worth far more to replace than it appears in the purchase price.

Selling It Again

Resale here works best where the file is straightforward. A house with a permit that matches the building, a plot whose boundaries match the cadastre, a clear energy certificate and no dispute about access will sell within a normal timeframe. Anything with unregularised additions near the shoreline will not.

The buyer pool is mainly Greek families and northern European second-home purchasers, and both look hardest in spring. A property presented properly in April reaches a wider audience than the same house listed in October.

Keep every permit, invoice, certificate and receipt from day one. Preparation and pricing are covered on our pages about how a Chalkidiki sale is handled and about valuing a Greek property.

Where Buyers Go Wrong Here

The most damaging error is assuming a plot is buildable because it is flat, fenced and near other houses. The second is buying a first-row property without establishing where the foreshore line runs and whether every structure sits legally behind it.

Third is paying for a sea view over land somebody else can build on. Fourth is judging the settlement on an August visit and then discovering that the winter version is a different place entirely. Fifth is buying an unheated summer house with the intention of living in it year-round and treating the upgrade as a detail.

Each of these is avoidable with one professional opinion and one extra visit, which is a small price against the cost of getting it wrong.

Working With Us

We are based in Chalkidiki and cover the smaller settlements of the Polygyros coast alongside the better-known resorts. On this stretch that means knowing which plots have a real building right and which do not, which houses are quietly for sale, and which families are ready to agree terms rather than merely willing to discuss them.

In practice that means shaping a brief narrow enough to work in a thin market, organising viewings across more than one season, introducing independent lawyers and engineers whom you instruct and pay directly, and staying involved through signature and handover. We never act as your legal adviser, precisely so that your legal adviser is genuinely independent.

For wider context, see the Chalkidiki property overview and our full guide to purchasing in Greece.

Vatopedi Buying Checklist

Run through this list before you commit. Each entry addresses something that has cost a buyer on this coast real money.

• Establish how many streets back the property stands and what the walk to the water actually takes.
• Identify every vacant plot in the sightline and find out what may be built on it.
• For anything near the water, obtain the foreshore delimitation and its position relative to the boundary.
• Have an engineer compare the building on the ground with the building on the permit.
• Check terraces, pergolas, outbuildings and boundary walls for permits of their own.
• Obtain the cadastral extract and confirm that plot area and boundaries agree with the deed.
• For land, confirm frontage onto a recognised road and the applicable coverage and height.
• Ask about archaeological or environmental designations affecting the parcel.
• Inspect the seaward elevation for salt damage, rust staining and failed render.
• Check the flat roof or roof terrace waterproofing and the age of the last repair.
• Locate the septic tank and establish capacity, condition and emptying arrangements.
• Ask what happens to water pressure during the first fortnight of August.
• Confirm there is off-street parking within the plot boundary.
• Instruct your own independent Greek lawyer rather than one proposed by the seller.
• Visit the settlement once outside the season before deciding.
• Budget purchase costs, upgrade works and furnishing as one total figure.

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• The Property Buying Process in Greece
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• Property Management in Chalkidiki
• Living in Chalkidiki
• Selling Property in Chalkidiki