Journal
Notes on buying a home in Greece, on letting one and on everyday life in Athens, written by Code Athena. Wherever an article gives a figure it names its source and its date, and many of the figures come from the research and the current listings of Greca House, a real-estate agency in Athens since 2008 (its asking prices, that is, rather than sale prices).
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Research
Asking prices by Athens neighbourhood, and how to read them
Greca House publishes the median asking price per square metre on its own Athens listings, neighbourhood by neighbourhood, with a method page and a CSV file. The snapshot of 1 October 2026 repays a careful reading, provided one knows what such a figure measures and what it leaves out. -
Buying in Greece
Buying a home in Greece: the steps and the costs
A purchase in Greece passes through a tax number, a bank account, a lawyer, an engineer and a notary, roughly in that order. We follow those steps, work through the costs of one example with the Greca House calculator and note what the agency does at each stage. -
Buying in Greece
The Golden Visa through property: the thresholds today
Greece still grants a five-year residence permit to non-EU buyers of property, but since the reform of 2024 the price of entry depends on where the home stands, how large it is and what it was before. This is where the rules stood in October 2026. -
Greca House
Greca House: an Athens agency since 2008
Greca House, an agency in Athens, carries on the brokerage that Iryna Rondyak set up in 2008. It sells homes, land, hotels and commercial property across Greece, publishes in six languages, and measures its own asking prices in research whose method and data anyone can read. -
Letting a home
Letting a home short-term in Athens: the rules in 2026
Letting a home to visitors in Greece now involves a tax registration, a declaration for every stay, a list of safety items that inspectors check and, in central Athens, a freeze on new entries. This is where the rules stood on 15 October 2026. -
Research
What a budget buys in Athens
Using Greca House's dated research on the asking prices of its own listings (a snapshot of 1 October 2026) and the homes it had for sale on 15 October, we look at what roughly €250k, €400k and €800k buys in five parts of Athens.