Apartments for sale under €100,000 in Durrës, Albania

Among the apartments for sale under €100,000 in Durrës, the median asking price is €78,000 and the median price per square metre €1,455; at that rate the full budget buys about 70 m². One-bedroom flats in this band have a median of €62,000, two-bedroom flats €82,000. The cheapest listings start around €49,500, and at that level you are usually looking at a studio sold from plans or an older flat in need of work.

13% 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 Durrës show the whole market for comparison.

In Durrës the budget buys the cheaper half of the market: one-bedroom flats on the beach road behind the first line, apartments in the Shkozet and Spitallë districts between the city and the motorway, and older resale flats in the centre. The first row on the beach and the Currila hill are mostly above it, except for the smallest units.

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.