[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":564},["ShallowReactive",2],{"content:lexikon:handover-and-defects-liability":3,"content:services":35,"content:lexikon":228},{"slug":4,"title":5,"metaTitle":6,"metaDescription":7,"excerpt":8,"toc":9,"body":25,"updated":26,"related":27},"handover-and-defects-liability","Handover and defects liability","Handover and defects liability for a new home","The handover inspection and its snag list, what a developer remains liable for after the keys change hands, who maintains what, and how to report a defect.","Handover is an appointment with a document at the end of it. What is written into that document, and what is reported afterwards, decides how the first years in a new home go.",[10,13,16,19,22],{"id":11,"text":12},"inspection","The handover inspection",{"id":14,"text":15},"snag-list","The snag list and what belongs on it",{"id":17,"text":18},"after-the-keys","What the developer remains liable for",{"id":20,"text":21},"who-maintains","Who maintains what in the first year",{"id":23,"text":24},"reporting","Reporting a defect so that it is recorded","\u003Cp>Signing the deed transfers ownership. Handover is a separate step: the appointment at which the finished dwelling is walked through, the meters read and the keys handed over.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Ch2 id=\"inspection\">The handover inspection\u003C\u002Fh2>\u003Cp>Bring the contract annexes. The specification, the finishes schedule and the drawings are what the dwelling is compared against; without them the inspection becomes a conversation about taste. Go in daylight and bring a surveyor if the purchase warrants one. An owner who cannot attend may send a representative with written authority.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Work through the dwelling in a fixed order rather than wandering. Open every window and door, run every tap and watch where the water goes in the shower, start the boiler and the ventilation, test the sockets and the kitchen extract. Read the electricity, water and gas meters and write the readings into the record. Count the keys, fobs and remote controls, and ask for the manuals.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Where a material or a model was named in the contract, check it item by item. A substitution may be reasonable, but it should be agreed, not discovered a year later.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Ch2 id=\"snag-list\">The snag list and what belongs on it\u003C\u002Fh2>\u003Cp>Everything found goes onto a list attached to the handover record, with the location, a short description and usually a photograph. Both sides sign and date it, and both keep a copy.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Three different things tend to arrive on one list, and separating them saves argument later. A defect is work that was not carried out as specified or that does not function. Damage is harm caused after the dwelling was completed, and who caused it is the question. A variation is something the owner would prefer differently, which is a new instruction and priced as one. The first is for the developer to put right.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Signing a record with a list attached does not waive the items on it, and no buyer should be asked to sign a clean record on the understanding that the work will follow. Refusing handover over a scuffed skirting board serves nobody either: the usual course is to accept the keys with the list signed and a date agreed for the return visit.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Ch2 id=\"after-the-keys\">What the developer remains liable for\u003C\u002Fh2>\u003Cp>Liability does not end at the door. National law in both Spain and Lithuania gives a new building tiered periods of liability: the shortest tier for finishing work, a middle tier for failures that make the home unfit to live in, such as water penetration, failed insulation or defective installations, and the longest for the structure: foundations, load-bearing elements and roof structure. The length of each tier is fixed by the law of the country, and the tiers are not the same in both. Ask your notary or a local lawyer which periods apply to your contract.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In Spain the structural tier is backed by insurance the developer must hold, so the owner is not left with only a company to pursue. Ask for the policy reference with the rest of the documents.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Alongside the statutory tiers run the manufacturers' guarantees on equipment: boiler, lift, gate motor, appliances. They start on their own dates and most require the servicing in the manual to be carried out and recorded. Normal wear, work done by the owner's contractor, misuse and a missed service are not defects, and that is where most disputes about a warranty actually sit.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Ch2 id=\"who-maintains\">Who maintains what in the first year\u003C\u002Fh2>\u003Cp>Three parties share the building in the first year: the owner inside the dwelling, the community of owners in the common elements, and the developer for defects within its liability. The lines blur because the community is new and the site team has not yet left.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>In practice the developer usually holds the first maintenance contracts for the lifts, the pumps, the gates and the irrigation, and passes them to the administrator the owners appoint. Get one thing in writing at handover: who to telephone when a lift stops on a Sunday.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Some of the first-year work falls to the owner and protects the warranty. A new building dries out for months after completion, so ventilate rather than sealing it up; fine cracking at junctions in the first season is usually shrinkage rather than a structural fault. Keep the boiler serviced on schedule, and consult the services drawings before cutting into any wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Ch2 id=\"reporting\">Reporting a defect so that it is recorded\u003C\u002Fh2>\u003Cp>Report in writing, to the channel named in the contract. Identify the unit, describe what happens, attach photographs and give the date you noticed it. A call to the site manager is often the faster way to get someone to look, but it leaves no record; follow it with a message.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>From there the sequence is predictable: the developer inspects, accepts or disputes the item with reasons, agrees a date, does the work and has the owner sign it off. If the same fault returns, say in the new report what was done the first time, because a repeat points somewhere a fresh description does not. SAVO keeps the handover record and the snag list in the file for the unit and logs reported defects against it, so the history stays with the apartment.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>When developer and owner read the same crack differently, an independent expert report is the normal next step, and a lawyer the one after. Take advice before withholding a payment: the contract usually says what that triggers.\u003C\u002Fp>","2026-10-04",{"services":28,"lexikon":31},[29,30],"residential-development","full-cycle-development",[32,33,34],"community-of-owners","notary-and-escritura","energy-performance-certificate",[36,101,165],{"slug":29,"title":37,"teaser":38,"metaTitle":39,"metaDescription":40,"h1":41,"intro":42,"forWhom":43,"includes":48,"howItWorks":64,"model":77,"faq":80,"related":96},"Residential Development","SAVO builds comfort- and premium-class apartment buildings, and whole residential districts, in Spain, Lithuania and Ukraine.","Residential Development — SAVO in Three Countries","SAVO builds comfort- and premium-class apartment buildings and whole residential districts in Spain, Lithuania and Ukraine. 320 000 m² built since 2006.","Residential development: apartment buildings and complete districts in three countries","SAVO has been on the market since 2006, and residential buildings remain the core of what the group puts up. The work covers comfort- and premium-class apartments: single buildings where the plot allows only one, whole districts where it allows more. Across the three markets 320 000 m² have been built and 3 920 apartments have found their owners.\n\nAn apartment is bought once; the ground around it is used every day. The group therefore plans the courtyard before the façades — closed to through traffic, with playgrounds, lawns, trees, walking paths and, where the plot takes it, a pool. Of the current programme 52 000 m² are in the active construction stage, and the architecture is answered country by country rather than by repeating one house type three times.",[44,45,46,47],"Buyers who want an apartment inside a planned courtyard rather than a block dropped between two car parks.","Families comparing a European mid-rise building in Vilnius with a larger district in the Kyiv region.","Buyers watching the Spanish coast who want to follow a seaside project from the design stage onwards.","Partners who need to see what a developer has completed before any conversation about the next site.",[49,52,55,58,61],{"title":50,"text":51},"Comfort and premium class","The two classes differ in finish, ceiling height and how much of the plot goes to landscaping — not in whether the courtyard is planned at all. Layouts run from compact one-room apartments to family flats with a separate kitchen-living room. In Vilnius the apartment lines carry their own names, HARMONIJA, ŽAISMAS, OAZĖ and ŠVELNUMAS, and each line keeps its own finish standard.",{"title":53,"text":54},"A complete environment for living","The group does not build separate houses. A courtyard is closed to traffic and holds playgrounds, lawns, trees and walking paths; where the plot allows, a pool and a water feature as well. Shops, a pharmacy and cafés sit on the ground floors, so the first residents are not waiting for them to appear.",{"title":56,"text":57},"Lucky Homes by SAVO, Vilnius","Dark clinker brick, glazed stair towers, mid-rise volumes on Gerosios Vilties g. 27. Lucky Homes 1 and 2 stand on landscaped grounds with hydrangeas, young trees and lawns. The architecture is deliberately European and reads nothing like the group's Ukrainian district; that contrast is a decision, not an accident of budget.",{"title":59,"text":60},"Evromisto by SAVO, Kyiv region","A residential district rather than an address: buildings Shchastia 1, 7, 9 and 11, with a second phase, Evromisto 2, in design. Between the blocks are closed courtyards with playgrounds, a fountain and a pool bowl. A replica of the Eiffel Tower stands beside the district sign, which is where the European name comes from, and apartments here are handed over finished — buyers receive keys rather than promises.",{"title":62,"text":63},"Villajoyosa Residence, Costa Blanca","A residential tower in Villajoyosa, next to Benidorm, at design stage. Presented in the project visualisations: the tower against the Benidorm skyline, a pool with sunbeds, rooftop terraces facing the city and the mountains, light interiors, palms, a padel court and walking paths across the master plan. Nothing here is described as finished while it is still drawn.",[65,68,71,74],{"title":66,"text":67},"The plot decides the class","Before a plan is drawn the group settles what the ground can carry: how many storeys, how much of it stays open, whether the result is comfort or premium class. Soil, access roads and the surrounding streets set the limits. A site that cannot hold a courtyard worth living in is not bought.",{"title":69,"text":70},"Architecture for the country it stands in","The design follows local building practice and local taste. Clinker brick and compact mid-rise volumes in Vilnius; larger blocks around wide courtyards in the Kyiv region; a sea-facing tower with terraces on the Costa Blanca. The same engineering standards produce three visibly different buildings.",{"title":72,"text":73},"Construction in phases","Blocks are raised in phases, so residents of an early stage are not living beside a crane for years. Of the group's current programme 52 000 m² are in the active construction stage. The courtyard of a completed phase is landscaped and opened rather than fenced off until the last block is done.",{"title":75,"text":76},"Handover, then the yard","Apartments are handed over with the common areas and the courtyard complete. After commissioning the territory stays with the group: lawns, playgrounds and paths are maintained, and the next phase is planned against what residents actually use. 3 920 apartments have passed through that sequence.",{"title":78,"text":79},"What you deal with, stage by stage","At the start you deal with the project itself rather than with a chain of intermediaries. The group sells its own buildings, so the person showing you a layout works for the company pouring the concrete. Questions about ceiling height, the courtyard plan or the finish standard are answered from the drawings in use on site.\n\nDuring construction the counterpart does not change. A buyer who reserves early follows the same project through to handover, and the papers are signed in the country where the building stands, before a notary, under that country's rules. Nothing moves to a sales agency that disappears at completion.\n\nAfter the keys the relationship continues, because the group remains on the territory. The courtyard, the ground-floor premises and the service companies have the same owner as the building. If something in an apartment or in the common areas is wrong, the address for it is the developer, not a project company that has already been wound up.",[81,84,87,90,93],{"q":82,"a":83},"Which countries does SAVO build residential projects in?","Three: Spain, Lithuania and Ukraine. The Lithuanian and Ukrainian projects are standing and lived in; the Spanish one, Villajoyosa Residence on the Costa Blanca, is at design stage. The group has been on the market since 2006.",{"q":85,"a":86},"How does the Lithuanian project differ from the Ukrainian one?","In scale and in architecture. Lucky Homes by SAVO in Vilnius is a mid-rise building in dark clinker brick with glazed stair towers, European in form and detail, on landscaped grounds. Evromisto by SAVO in the Kyiv region is a whole district of blocks around closed courtyards, with commercial ground floors and its own infrastructure.",{"q":88,"a":89},"Are apartments handed over finished or as a shell?","In the Ukrainian district the accent is finished housing: residents receive an apartment they can move into rather than a concrete box. In every project the finish standard belongs to the apartment line and is written into the documents you sign, so it can be checked before you commit.",{"q":91,"a":92},"What is actually in the courtyards?","Playgrounds, lawns, trees and walking paths, closed to through traffic. Evromisto has a fountain and a pool bowl between its blocks; the Villajoyosa master plan shows a pool with sunbeds, a padel court and paths through planting. What a given project gets depends on the plot, and the plan is shown before purchase.",{"q":94,"a":95},"Can I see the Spanish project before it is built?","Only as it stands today: project visualisations of the tower, the pool, the rooftop terraces and the master plan. They show design intent and are described that way, never as a completed building. For Vilnius and the Kyiv region you can look at the real thing instead.",[97,98,99,100],"off-plan-purchase","reservation-agreement","apartment-area-terms","nie-number",{"slug":102,"title":103,"teaser":104,"metaTitle":105,"metaDescription":106,"h1":107,"intro":108,"forWhom":109,"includes":114,"howItWorks":130,"model":143,"faq":146,"related":162},"commercial-development","Commercial Premises","Shops, a dental clinic, a sports club, a restaurant, a café, security and a service company — the non-residential half of a district, built and then run by the group.","Commercial, Medical and Sports Premises — SAVO","SAVO builds and operates the commercial, medical, sports and service premises in its districts: ground-floor retail, a dental clinic, a sports club, cafés.","Commercial, medical, sports and service premises inside the districts we build","A district is judged by what a resident can reach without a car. SAVO therefore builds the non-residential part of its projects itself: retail units under the apartments, a dental clinic, a sports club, a restaurant and a café, security and a service company. Several of them are not leased-out shells waiting for an unknown tenant but the group's own businesses.\n\nThe order of work matters more here than anywhere else. Ground-floor premises are designed together with the building — their own street entrances, ceiling heights, ventilation routes, water, electrical load and service access — because fitting a clinic into space meant for apartments is expensive and usually visible afterwards. By the time the first residents arrive, the shops, the pharmacy, the cafés and the notary are open.",[110,111,112,113],"Residents who would rather walk to a dentist, a gym and a bakery than drive to them.","Retailers and service businesses looking for a ground-floor unit with residents already living above it.","Operators of clinics, studios and sports formats who need the right ceilings, ventilation and a separate entrance from the first day.","Partners assessing whether a developer can operate commercial space as well as sell it.",[115,118,121,124,127],{"title":116,"text":117},"Retail under the apartments","Ground floors are given to shops, a pharmacy, cafés, a notary and a dental clinic, each with a street entrance separate from the residential lobbies. In Evromisto by SAVO these units opened as the blocks filled, which is why the district avoided the usual empty first year. Deliveries and waste are routed away from the courtyards where the playgrounds are.",{"title":119,"text":120},"Dental clinic","Prime Clinic \u002F PrimeDent operates in the group's own premises. A clinic sets the hardest technical conditions of any ground-floor occupier: water and drainage, electrical load, ventilation, room geometry. Those were planned with the building instead of being argued over during fit-out.",{"title":122,"text":123},"Sport and leisure","EuroGym is the sports club in the group's portfolio — a format that needs floor height, structural load and acoustic separation from the apartments above. The Villajoyosa master plan reaches the same goal outdoors, with a padel court and walking paths beside the pool. Both are planned at concept stage, because neither can be added to a finished building.",{"title":125,"text":126},"Food and drink","The restaurant Flame and the café Lucky Bagel are run by the group. Lucky Bagel is in Vilnius; the Ukrainian district has its own cafés on the commercial ground floors. Catering is the most demanding neighbour a residential block can have, so extraction, grease traps and delivery hours belong in the drawings rather than in later complaints.",{"title":128,"text":129},"Security and services","Savoya Security covers the districts, alongside a European service company and Yellow Studio. A closed courtyard only works if someone is answerable for who comes through the gate. The organisation that installed the gates, the lighting and the playgrounds is the one that keeps them in the state they were handed over in.",[131,134,137,140],{"title":132,"text":133},"The mix is decided before the plans","What the district will need is settled first: how many retail units, where a clinic can physically sit, whether a sports club fits under residential floors or belongs in its own volume. The answer follows from the number of apartments and from what already exists in the surrounding streets.",{"title":135,"text":136},"Premises designed with the structure","Entrances, ceiling heights, loads, ventilation shafts, water and power are drawn into the building per unit. A unit intended for food or medical use is identified at this stage, because its risers cannot be added later without cutting through apartments above.",{"title":138,"text":139},"Fit-out and opening","Each shell is completed for the use it was designed for and handed to an operator, in several cases one of the group's own companies. The target is simple: the shops, the pharmacy and the cafés trading when the first residents move in, not a year later.",{"title":141,"text":142},"Operating and adjusting","After opening the group runs what it built and watches what residents use. A format that does not work is replaced; one that does is repeated in the next phase. That is only possible because the premises were not sold off to unrelated owners at completion.",{"title":144,"text":145},"Who you talk to about a unit","If you live in the district, this part of it is simply there. You do not deal with a letting agent or hunt for a dentist: the clinic, the gym, the café and the security service belong to the same group as the building you live in, and anything that goes wrong with them has one address.\n\nIf you are a business, you deal with the owner of the premises directly. What can be agreed is what the unit physically allows — power, water, extraction, entrance, delivery route — and that conversation happens against the drawings. Where a use would need a change to the structure, you are told so before fit-out rather than during it.\n\nIf you are a partner, the point is that the group both develops and operates. Commercial space is not a line in a sales brochure to be disposed of at commissioning; it is run as a business by the same owner, which is also what keeps the courtyards and the lighting maintained. The European legal entity behind this work is UAB Savo investicija in Vilnius.",[147,150,153,156,159],{"q":148,"a":149},"Why does a developer run a clinic and a gym itself?","Because a district with no dentist, no gym and no café for its first years is an unfinished product. Prime Clinic \u002F PrimeDent, EuroGym, Flame and Lucky Bagel are operated by the group, so the services exist from the start. Running them also shows which formats residents use, and that feeds the next phase.",{"q":151,"a":152},"What is on the ground floors of Evromisto by SAVO?","Shops, a pharmacy, cafés, a notary and a dental clinic, each with its own street entrance. They sit under the residential blocks that enclose the courtyards. Service access and deliveries are kept out of the yards.",{"q":154,"a":155},"Is Lucky Bagel in the Ukrainian district?","No. Lucky Bagel is the group's café in Vilnius. The Ukrainian district has its own cafés on its commercial ground floors, which are different premises in a different country.",{"q":157,"a":158},"Can a business take a unit from SAVO?","The group owns and operates the ground-floor premises in its districts, so an enquiry goes to the owner and not to an agency. What is free, and what a particular unit can take technically, is answered case by case. Write to request@savobi.com.",{"q":160,"a":161},"Who looks after the courtyards and the security?","Savoya Security covers the districts, together with a European service company and Yellow Studio. Because the group stays on the territory after commissioning, the gates, lighting, lawns and playgrounds are maintained by the people who put them there.",[163,32,34,164],"mixed-use-ground-floor","uab-company-code-and-vat",{"slug":30,"title":166,"teaser":167,"metaTitle":168,"metaDescription":169,"h1":170,"intro":171,"forWhom":172,"includes":177,"howItWorks":193,"model":206,"faq":209,"related":225},"Full-Cycle Development","Land plot, concept, design, construction, sales, commissioning — and then the running and extension of the territory, all inside one company.","Full-Cycle Development — One Owner, Every Stage","SAVO runs the whole cycle in-house: land plot, concept, design, construction, sales, commissioning and the territory afterwards. 320 000 m² built since 2006.","Full-cycle development: one company answers for the plot, the build and the years after","SAVO works the full cycle itself. It takes the land plot, writes the concept, designs, builds, sells, commissions the buildings, and then runs and develops the territory. Nothing on that list is passed to a general contractor who passes it on again. On the market since 2006, the group has done this in Spain, Lithuania and Ukraine.\n\nThe consequence shows up in the figures. 320 000 m² built, 52 000 m² in the active construction stage, 3 920 apartments that have found their owners — all of it on one company, rather than spread over a chain of project vehicles that each delivered a fragment and closed. When a finished building needs someone to answer for it, the organisation that signed the first drawing is still in place.",[173,174,175,176],"Buyers who want to know who answers for a defect three years after the keys change hands.","Partners weighing a joint project and reading delivery history rather than a presentation.","Landowners choosing between a developer who will build their plot and one who will resell it.","Anyone comparing developers who outsource construction with developers who keep it in-house.",[178,181,184,187,190],{"title":179,"text":180},"Land plot and concept","The cycle starts with the plot, and the plot decides the concept: storeys, how much ground stays open, which classes of housing, which non-residential uses the place will need. A site that cannot hold a courtyard worth living in does not become a project. This is also where it is settled whether the result is one building or a whole district.",{"title":182,"text":183},"Design in-house","Architecture and engineering are produced inside the group, which is why the three markets deliberately look different. Clinker-brick mid-rise in Vilnius, blocks around closed courtyards in the Kyiv region, a sea-facing tower on the Costa Blanca presented in the project visualisations. One engineering standard, three answers to three places.",{"title":185,"text":186},"Construction","The group builds rather than supervises someone else building. 52 000 m² are in the active construction stage, sequenced so a completed courtyard can be opened while the next block rises. Because the designer and the builder are the same company, a change on site is a decision rather than a claim.",{"title":188,"text":189},"Sales and commissioning","Apartments are sold by the owner of the building; 3 920 of them have found their owners across the three countries. Commissioning covers the common areas and the courtyard as well as the apartments, since a handover with an unfinished yard is not a handover. The buyer's counterpart at the notary is the same one from the first viewing.",{"title":191,"text":192},"The territory afterwards","After commissioning the group stays. It maintains lawns, lighting, playgrounds and paths, operates the commercial, medical and sports premises, and designs the next phase against how the district is actually used — Evromisto 2 is in design for that reason. Behind the record stands 320 000 m² of built space.",[194,197,200,203],{"title":195,"text":196},"Acquisition and feasibility","Before a plot is taken, the group tests what it will carry: planning limits, soil, access, utilities, the surrounding market. The question is not whether a building fits but whether a liveable district fits. A plot that only works as a tower between two roads is declined.",{"title":198,"text":199},"Concept, design and permits","The concept fixes the housing classes, the shape of the courtyards and the non-residential mix; the design turns that into drawings and the approvals that go with them. Because the same company will build from those drawings, they are made to be built from, not re-drawn by whoever wins a tender.",{"title":201,"text":202},"Build and sell in parallel","Construction and sales run alongside each other with one company on both sides. A buyer who commits at an early stage deals with the owner of the building all the way through, and the order of phases is stated rather than improvised. Payments, documents and the notary follow the law of the country the building stands in.",{"title":204,"text":205},"Commission, operate, extend","Buildings are commissioned with their common areas and courtyards complete, and the territory then passes into the group's own management. Operating it writes the brief for the next phase: what residents use, what they avoid, what is missing. The cycle restarts on the same site instead of on a new one.",{"title":207,"text":208},"One owner from the plot onwards","Whatever stage you arrive at, the counterpart is the same organisation. A buyer studying a layout, a buyer signing before a notary, a resident reporting a defect and a business taking a ground-floor unit are all dealing with the company whose name is on the project. There is no point in the process where responsibility quietly moves to someone you have never met.\n\nDocuments are signed under the law of the country where the building stands, with the formalities that belong to it: a notary, a register entry, and the papers a foreign buyer has to obtain. The group does not promise returns and does not quote yields. What goes in writing is what is being built, to what standard, and where it sits in the sequence of phases. The European legal entity is UAB Savo investicija, Gerosios Vilties g. 27-131, Vilnius.\n\nAfter commissioning less changes than it usually does. The courtyards, the service companies and the commercial premises stay with the group, so maintenance and the next phase are planned by the people who delivered the first one. That is the whole case for the full cycle: the figures above rest on one company, and so does the obligation behind them.",[210,213,216,219,222],{"q":211,"a":212},"What does full-cycle development include here?","The land plot, the concept, the design, the construction, the sales, the commissioning, and then running and developing the territory. Each of those sits inside the group rather than being tendered out. The last item is the one most developers leave off the list.",{"q":214,"a":215},"Why does it matter who built the building?","Because responsibility follows ownership. When design, construction and operation belong to separate companies, a defect turns into a dispute between them and the buyer waits. Here the designer, the builder and the operator are one organisation, which is also why the built volumes are reported as one figure.",{"q":217,"a":218},"How much has the group built, and how much is on site now?","320 000 m² are built and 3 920 apartments have found their owners. A further 52 000 m² are in the active construction stage. The figures cover Spain, Lithuania and Ukraine together, and the group has been on the market since 2006.",{"q":220,"a":221},"Does SAVO use outside companies at all?","The group's own structure covers the concept, the drawings, the site, the sales and the companies that run the district afterwards — that is what full cycle means in practice. Where outside work is bought in, it is managed by the group and does not shift responsibility for the result. Your counterpart stays the same at every stage.",{"q":223,"a":224},"What happens to a district once the last block is finished?","It stays with the group. Lawns, lighting, playgrounds and paths are maintained, the commercial, medical and sports premises keep operating, and a further phase is designed where the site allows one, as with Evromisto 2. A completed district is treated as something to run, not a project to close.",[226,4,33,227],"development-cycle","lithuanian-property-register",[229,254,278,303,324,348,358,383,407,430,453,475,496,519,540],{"slug":99,"title":230,"metaTitle":231,"metaDescription":232,"excerpt":233,"toc":234,"updated":26,"related":250},"Built area and usable area","Built area and usable area: apartment figures","Built area, usable area, terraces counted at a fraction and the share of common parts: why the same apartment can carry two different square-metre figures.","Built area, usable area and terrace area answer different questions, and a listing rarely says which one it is quoting. The difference between them can be the size of a room.",[235,238,241,244,247],{"id":236,"text":237},"built-area","Built area: what is inside the figure",{"id":239,"text":240},"usable-area","Usable area: the floor you walk on",{"id":242,"text":243},"terraces","Terraces, balconies and storage",{"id":245,"text":246},"common-parts","Common parts and the participation quota",{"id":248,"text":249},"two-figures","Why one apartment shows two figures",{"services":251,"lexikon":252},[29,30],[253,97,4],"nota-simple",{"slug":97,"title":255,"metaTitle":256,"metaDescription":257,"excerpt":258,"toc":259,"updated":26,"related":275},"Buying off plan (sobre plano)","Buying off plan in Spain: what you sign","Buying off plan in Spain: what the private contract commits you to, how stage payments follow the works, and why advance payments carry a guarantee.","Off plan means paying during construction and becoming the owner at the end. The contract, the payment milestones and the guarantee of advances decide how safe that is.",[260,263,266,269,272],{"id":261,"text":262},"what-you-sign","What the buyer is actually signing",{"id":264,"text":265},"stage-payments","What the stage payments are tied to",{"id":267,"text":268},"bank-guarantee","Why advance payments carry a guarantee",{"id":270,"text":271},"versus-finished","How it differs from buying a finished flat",{"id":273,"text":274},"before-you-commit","What to settle before the first transfer",{"services":276,"lexikon":277},[29,30],[98,33,4],{"slug":32,"title":279,"metaTitle":280,"metaDescription":281,"excerpt":282,"toc":283,"updated":26,"related":299},"Community of owners","Community of owners and the service charge","How a comunidad de propietarios works: what the service charge pays for, how the owners' meeting decides, and what to ask about arrears and the reserve fund.","Owners of flats in the same building belong to a community of owners whether they want to or not. It sets its own budget, votes on works, and bills each flat by its registered share.",[284,287,290,293,296],{"id":285,"text":286},"what-it-is","What the community of owners is",{"id":288,"text":289},"the-charge","What the monthly charge pays for",{"id":291,"text":292},"decisions","Decisions at the owners' meeting",{"id":294,"text":295},"arrears","Arrears, the debt certificate and the reserve fund",{"id":297,"text":298},"first-community","From developer to community in a new district",{"services":300,"lexikon":301},[29,102],[4,99,302],"spanish-property-taxes",{"slug":34,"title":304,"metaTitle":305,"metaDescription":306,"excerpt":307,"toc":308,"updated":26,"related":321},"Energy performance certificate","Energy performance certificate: what the class means","What the letter class on an energy certificate actually measures, why the document is required to sell or let in the EU, and what it says about running costs.","The energy certificate rates the building, not the household. Read as a comparison between dwellings it is useful; read as a forecast of next winter's bill it is not.",[309,312,315,318],{"id":310,"text":311},"what-it-measures","What the letter class measures",{"id":313,"text":314},"why-mandatory","Why it is required to sell or let",{"id":316,"text":317},"running-costs","What it says about running costs",{"id":319,"text":320},"new-buildings","What a new building normally reaches",{"services":322,"lexikon":323},[29,30],[99,4,97],{"slug":33,"title":325,"metaTitle":326,"metaDescription":327,"excerpt":328,"toc":329,"updated":26,"related":345},"Escritura pública and registration","Escritura publica and the Spanish registry","What a Spanish notary checks before authorising the escritura, what changes at the signing table, and why the registry entry is what keeps ownership safe.","The notarial deed is the day a purchase becomes real; the entry in the Registro de la Propiedad is what makes the ownership hard to attack. They are two separate steps.",[330,333,336,339,342],{"id":331,"text":332},"notary-role","What a Spanish notary does",{"id":334,"text":335},"checks","What is checked before the deed is authorised",{"id":337,"text":338},"the-table","What changes at the signing table",{"id":340,"text":341},"registration","From the deed to the registry entry",{"id":343,"text":344},"third-parties","Why registration, and not the deed, keeps ownership safe",{"services":346,"lexikon":347},[29,30],[253,302,100],{"slug":4,"title":5,"metaTitle":6,"metaDescription":7,"excerpt":8,"toc":349,"updated":26,"related":355},[350,351,352,353,354],{"id":11,"text":12},{"id":14,"text":15},{"id":17,"text":18},{"id":20,"text":21},{"id":23,"text":24},{"services":356,"lexikon":357},[29,30],[32,33,34],{"slug":227,"title":359,"metaTitle":360,"metaDescription":361,"excerpt":362,"toc":363,"updated":26,"related":379},"Lithuanian Real Property Register","Lithuanian Real Property Register — Lexicon","Registru centras keeps Lithuania’s property register: what an entry holds, how an extract is ordered, and what it proves about ownership and encumbrances.","The Lithuanian Centre of Registers records every flat, plot and parking space, its owners and the charges against it. An extract is the document a buyer reads first.",[364,367,370,373,376],{"id":365,"text":366},"what-it-holds","What an entry in the register holds",{"id":368,"text":369},"getting-an-extract","How an extract is obtained",{"id":371,"text":372},"ownership-and-encumbrances","What it proves, and what it leaves out",{"id":374,"text":375},"legal-entities-register","Read together with the register of legal entities",{"id":377,"text":378},"reading-it-as-a-buyer","The order a buyer reads it in",{"services":380,"lexikon":381},[29,30],[382,164,253],"notarised-purchase-lithuania",{"slug":163,"title":384,"metaTitle":385,"metaDescription":386,"excerpt":387,"toc":388,"updated":26,"related":404},"Mixed-Use Ground Floor","Mixed-Use Ground Floor — Lexicon","Why shops, a pharmacy, cafes and a clinic sit under the flats, how the units are designed for noise, deliveries and air, and what residents gain and lose.","Commercial ground floors are a planning decision, not a letting decision. Whether they work for the people upstairs is settled in the drawings.",[389,392,395,398,401],{"id":390,"text":391},"why-the-ground-floor","Why commerce goes downstairs",{"id":393,"text":394},"planned-at-design-stage","Designed in, not fitted later",{"id":396,"text":397},"noise-smells-deliveries","Noise, smells and deliveries",{"id":399,"text":400},"what-residents-gain","What residents gain",{"id":402,"text":403},"what-residents-give-up","What residents give up",{"services":405,"lexikon":406},[102,29,30],[226,32,99],{"slug":100,"title":408,"metaTitle":409,"metaDescription":410,"excerpt":411,"toc":412,"updated":26,"related":427},"NIE number in Spain","NIE number in Spain: what it is and is not","The NIE is the identification and tax number Spain gives a foreigner. Why no purchase, mortgage or utility contract works without it, and where to apply.","No deed, tax form or utility contract in Spain functions without a NIE. The number is personal and permanent and, despite a widespread belief, it is not a residence permit.",[413,415,418,421,424],{"id":285,"text":414},"What the NIE is",{"id":416,"text":417},"where-it-is-needed","Where it is needed",{"id":419,"text":420},"how-to-apply","Where and how it is applied for",{"id":422,"text":423},"not-a-permit","What the NIE is not",{"id":425,"text":426},"keeping-it","Keeping it usable",{"services":428,"lexikon":429},[29,102],[33,302,97],{"slug":253,"title":431,"metaTitle":432,"metaDescription":433,"excerpt":434,"toc":435,"updated":26,"related":450},"Nota simple: the registry extract","Nota simple: the Spanish land registry extract","What a nota simple shows about a Spanish property, what a cargas entry means for the buyer, when it is read and how recent the extract has to be.","The nota simple is a printout of what the Spanish land registry currently says about one property: who owns it, how it is described, and what burdens it. It is read before money moves, not after.",[436,438,441,444,447],{"id":285,"text":437},"What the nota simple is",{"id":439,"text":440},"what-it-shows","What the extract shows, and what it does not",{"id":442,"text":443},"cargas","Cargas: what a charge means in practice",{"id":445,"text":446},"freshness","How recent the extract has to be",{"id":448,"text":449},"new-build","The extract on a new-build purchase",{"services":451,"lexikon":452},[29,30],[33,97,227],{"slug":382,"title":454,"metaTitle":455,"metaDescription":456,"excerpt":457,"toc":458,"updated":26,"related":472},"Notarised Purchase in Lithuania","Notarised Purchase in Lithuania — Lexicon","How a flat purchase in Lithuania runs: preliminary agreement and deposit, the notary’s checks, the notarial deed, registration, and buying before completion.","A Lithuanian flat changes hands in notarial form. The steps before that deed — reservation, preliminary agreement, payment arrangements — decide how safe the day of signing is.",[459,462,464,467,469],{"id":460,"text":461},"preliminary-agreement","Preliminary agreement and deposit",{"id":331,"text":463},"What the notary actually checks",{"id":465,"text":466},"purchase-sale-deed","The notarial purchase-sale deed",{"id":340,"text":468},"Registration, keys and money",{"id":470,"text":471},"building-not-finished","Buying while the building is going up",{"services":473,"lexikon":474},[29,102],[227,97,98],{"slug":98,"title":476,"metaTitle":477,"metaDescription":478,"excerpt":479,"toc":480,"updated":26,"related":493},"Reservation agreement (contrato de reserva)","Reservation agreement in Spain: before you sign","What a contrato de reserva fixes, how the reserved sum relates to the purchase price, when the money is refundable, and which clauses to read before signing.","A reservation takes a flat off the market for a set period. Its value sits in two lines: how precisely the unit is described, and what happens to the money if no contract follows.",[481,484,487,490],{"id":482,"text":483},"what-it-fixes","What a reservation actually fixes",{"id":485,"text":486},"deposit-refundable","When the money comes back, and when it does not",{"id":488,"text":489},"next-contract","From reservation to the purchase contract",{"id":491,"text":492},"before-signing","What to read before you sign",{"services":494,"lexikon":495},[29,30],[97,100,253],{"slug":302,"title":497,"metaTitle":498,"metaDescription":499,"excerpt":500,"toc":501,"updated":26,"related":516},"Taxes on a Spanish purchase","Taxes and costs of a Spanish purchase","IVA and AJD on a new build, ITP on a resale, notary and registry fees, the annual IBI and plusvalia when you sell: who pays what, and at which moment.","A Spanish purchase carries a sequence of taxes rather than one. Who pays which of them, and at what moment, is more useful to learn than any rate you will read online.",[502,505,507,510,513],{"id":503,"text":504},"two-regimes","Two regimes: new build and resale",{"id":448,"text":506},"A new build: IVA and AJD",{"id":508,"text":509},"resale","A resale: transfer tax instead",{"id":511,"text":512},"signing-costs","Notary, registry and who bears them",{"id":514,"text":515},"owning-and-selling","While you own, and when you sell",{"services":517,"lexikon":518},[29,102],[33,97,32],{"slug":226,"title":520,"metaTitle":521,"metaDescription":522,"excerpt":523,"toc":524,"updated":26,"related":537},"The Development Cycle","The Development Cycle — Lexicon","From land plot and concept through permits, design, construction, sales and commissioning to running the territory — and what each stage decides for residents.","Development is a chain of decisions, and most of the ones residents feel daily are taken long before the first wall. Here is what each stage settles.",[525,527,530,532,534],{"id":526,"text":179},"land-and-concept",{"id":528,"text":529},"permits-and-design","Permits and design",{"id":531,"text":185},"construction",{"id":533,"text":188},"sales-and-commissioning",{"id":535,"text":536},"operating-the-territory","Operating the territory afterwards",{"services":538,"lexikon":539},[30,29,102],[163,4,97],{"slug":164,"title":541,"metaTitle":542,"metaDescription":543,"excerpt":544,"toc":545,"updated":26,"related":561},"UAB, Company Code and VAT","UAB, Company Code and VAT Number — Lexicon","What a Lithuanian UAB is, what the company code and the VAT number identify, where both can be verified, and what else to check before a buyer transfers money.","Behind every flat sold in Lithuania there is a legal entity with a code. Knowing what a UAB is and where its details can be verified takes a few minutes before a transfer.",[546,549,552,555,558],{"id":547,"text":548},"what-a-uab-is","What a UAB is",{"id":550,"text":551},"company-code","The company code",{"id":553,"text":554},"vat-number","The VAT number",{"id":556,"text":557},"where-to-verify","Where both can be verified",{"id":559,"text":560},"before-you-pay","What else to look at before paying",{"services":562,"lexikon":563},[29,30],[227,382,98],1791193708636]