Sea-view houses and villas for sale in Albania

Houses and villas advertised with a sea view in Albania ask a median of €760,000, or €2,905 per square metre of living space, with half of them between €430,000 and €1,100,000 and the cheapest around €180,000. A view roughly doubles the price per metre of a house in Albania, because most of the coast is flat and the first row is apartment blocks, so a hillside plot with an open line to the water is the scarcest thing a house can have. Compare with the ordinary houses for sale in Albania to see what the view itself is worth.

45% of these houses are still under construction, usually villas in a developer's complex sold from plans; the rest are existing houses, from stone village houses on the Riviera to modern villas on the hills above Vlorë and Durrës.

Almost half of the sea-view houses for sale in Albania are on the Durrës coast, from the Currila hill above the city to the villa complexes of Gjiri i Lalzit to the north; a quarter are in Vlorë and on the slope of Uji i Ftohtë towards Radhimë; the rest are spread between Himarë, Sarandë, Golem and the Riviera villages, where the few houses on sale are stone houses or new villas above the sea and set the top of the price range.

Three things matter more for a house than for a flat. The land: a foreigner buys a house and its plot directly when the plot is construction land, while agricultural land and bare plots within about 200 metres of the shore are held through a company or a lease, so the cadastral classification decides what you can sign. Legalisation: a house built after 1991 without a permit, or extended without one, cannot be transferred the way a registered one can. The view itself: ask what can be built on the plots between the house and the sea. Our due diligence guide lists the documents, and our guide to house prices in Albania gives the medians town by town.