Commercial properties for rent in Durrës, Albania

Durrës has 235 commercial properties for rent, with a median asking rent of €650 a month and €6 per square metre. The stock is tourism-led: bars and restaurants on the seafront and the beach strip, shop units on the pedestrian streets of the centre, small hotels let as whole buildings, and warehouses and yards near the port and the highway.

Most units ask between €450 and €1,200 a month; 152 are listed under €1,000 a month and 196 under €2,000.

Commercial rentals are the business end of Durrës real estate; residential property for rent in Durrës has its own pages below.

The season shapes everything. Seafront and beach-strip units trade hard from June to September and quietly otherwise, so leases there are often priced for the summer or signed for the season only. Units in the centre, around the port and the ferry terminal, and on the roads towards Tirana serve year-round trade at steadier rents.

Commercial leases run from a season to several years, with a deposit of two or three months and VAT added when the landlord is registered. Check the unit's registered use, the building's permits (some hospitality buildings on the strip were legalised after the fact) and who pays shared costs. Foreign operators sign through an Albanian company, which holds the licences.