Apartments for sale under €100,000 in Albania

Among the apartments for sale under €100,000 in Albania, the median asking price is €80,600 and the median price per square metre €1,240; at that rate the full budget buys about 80 m². One-bedroom flats in this band have a median of €64,500, two-bedroom flats €80,000. The cheapest listings start around €46,400, and at that level you are usually looking at a studio sold from plans or an older flat in need of work.

53% of the apartments under €100,000 are still under construction. That is not a warning sign in Albania, where most new supply is sold from plans, but it changes how you pay: a registered pre-sale contract, instalments tied to construction stages and the final deed only after the use certificate. Our guide to buying off-plan in Albania explains the sequence; the ordinary apartments for sale in Albania show the whole market for comparison.

Most of the apartments under €100,000 in Albania are on the Durrës bay: Golem and Mali i Robit, the Kavajë coast at Qerret and Spille, and the cheaper half of Durrës itself, where €85,000 to €100,000 buys a new one-bedroom flat in a complex a few minutes from the beach. Tirana offers the budget only in its outer districts and in Kamëz, inland towns such as Korçë and Pogradec offer full-size family flats for it, and Shëngjin in the north is the cheapest sea-side option outside the Durrës bay. South of Vlorë almost nothing within a kilometre of the sea costs under €100,000.

Closing costs in Albania are about 4 to 7% of the price: notary, registration at the State Cadastre, your own lawyer and the buyer-side municipal charge on the transfer, so a €90,000 flat needs about €4,000 to €6,000 more, plus furnishing. The annual property tax is about 0.05% of value, in the order of €50 a year for a flat in this band. Our guide to the cost of buying property in Albania itemises it, and our guide to what property costs in Albania shows what €50,000, €100,000 and €200,000 buy town by town.