Housing

Eleven Files Every Buyer Needs

Eleven pieces on buying, building, and furnishing property here, from vetting an agent to renting out a finished villa, meant for reading start to finish.
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.
Destinations

Discover Litochoro: Living at the Foot of Olympus

In Litochoro the trailhead is a walk from home, Katerini covers daily errands, and Thessaloniki is a train ride away for festivals, concerts, and flights.
Daily life

Thessaloniki: California of the Balkans

A Thessaloniki City Council member explains why the city's walkability, healthcare, and metro expansion make it a compelling, affordable alternative for foreign retirees.

Destinations

Destinations

Five Mainland Cities, Five Retirements

Five affordable mainland cities seem similar initially, but evaluating daily life, healthcare, and airport access reveals sharp differences, allowing one very clear winner to emerge.
Destinations

Discover Tourlida: Living in the Lagoon

Tourlida sits inside the Messolonghi lagoon, where village houses change hands like any property, but the pelades, the fishing huts on stilts, never do.

Housing

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.
Daily life

Get to Know Mani Through the Donkey, the Scorpion and the Lemon Tree

From a terrier's chicken habit to a donkey in couture, Marjory McGinn's four Peloponnese memoirs turn the hard business of settling in Greece into some of the funniest, sharpest writing on the region.

Settling In

Settling In

Crete, Homer’s Hundred Cities

Crete's Vice-Governor for Tourism shares an insider's view on why foreigners settle here, how to truly join a community, and daily life beyond the holiday.
Settling In

12 Guides to Bypass Greek Bureaucracy

An AFM before a lease, an AMKA before a doctor, a login before anything else: the order matters. Twelve guides lay it out so nothing gets stuck waiting on something else.

Daily Life

Daily life

Learning to Speak Greek

Modern Greek is genuinely difficult for adult learners, but a functional level within twelve to eighteen months is realistic, and it changes daily life.
Daily life

Get to Know Peloponnese Through The Odyssey

Nolan's Odyssey turned Messinia and Acrocorinth into movie sets. We mapped the closest villages, and what daily life and the housing market actually look like there.