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FeaturedSeeki.eu on temporary housing abroad: a furnished mid-term flat costs about what a long-term one does. Which stays let you register, and how to keep it short.
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Seeki.eu shows your German home to buyers and tenants across Europe for €9, no commission. ImmobilienScout24 keeps the German crowd and prices at booking.
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Seeki.eu puts a private seller's home in front of buyers across Europe for €9. We checked the national portals in 12 markets for the local half of the job.
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Seeki.eu on why landlords reject foreign tenants: risk they can't price. What nine countries ask, what the law caps, and how Seeki Pass answers it first.
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Seeki.eu lists your home for buyers across Europe for €9 once, with free renewals. Several national portals show their fee only after you've built the advert.
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Save a home to your favourites on Seeki.eu and any seller price cut reaches you in one daily digest, by e-mail, in your feed and as an app push.
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A Belgian apartment asks a median €3,328/m² in September 2026, from €2,618/m² in Liège to €9,024/m² in Knokke-Heist. City by city, with the tax on top.
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Inherit a flat in Poland or Germany and the deceased's purchase date carries over. In Hungary the tax clock restarts at death. Here's what an heir owes.
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On a €400,000 resale home you pay about €18,000 in purchase costs in Munich and about €40,700 in Barcelona. Taxes, notary and registry fees, city by city.
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Yes. A notary signs the deed anyway, and an agent at 3% plus VAT costs €10,709 on a €295,000 Belgian flat. Here are the papers each region demands.
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Austria's tax on selling an old home rises from 4.2% to 6% of the price and regulated rents cap at 2%. Every confirmed 2027 change, with dates and sources.
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Polish banks lend foreigners up to 80% of a home's value, or 90% with extra security. See a 55 m² Warsaw flat worked through at the 6.00% average rate.
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Register extract, energy certificate, owners' association papers: what seven European countries ask of a flat seller, and why France gives buyers a year.
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Not tax-resident in Portugal? A €300,000 flat now costs you €22,500 in transfer tax, against €11,605 for a resident buying the same second home.
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Belgian registration duty is 12% or 12.5%, or 2% to 3% on your only home. On a €350,000 house that's €7,000 or up to €43,750, by region and use.
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Median asking prices per m² for 30 European cities, ranked cheapest to dearest: €2,199/m² in Łódź to €10,512/m² in Paris, from Seeki.eu on 30 September 2026.
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Sell a home too soon in Czechia, Slovakia, Poland or Hungary and 15% to 35% of the gain goes in tax. Wait 5 or 10 years and you pay nothing.
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Dutch house prices rose 8.7% in the year to Q2 2026. Median asking prices per square metre by city, transfer tax tiers, and where foreign buyers concentrate.
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A first landlord’s guide to long-term renting in metropolitan France: lease choice, DPE, local rent rules, applicant files and handover.
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A first landlord's guide to long-term residential letting in Spain: contract scope, rent and charges, deposits, tenant selection, and handover.
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Prepare your rental application documents before moving abroad. See how Seeki Pass helps you explain foreign paperwork and control what you share.
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Set a defensible monthly rent with like-for-like asking comparables, separate charges, local legal checks and a measured response to early enquiries.
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Sell a French home privately with the right diagnostics, co-ownership papers, buyer checks and notary-led completion steps.
Peter Marci
Sell a Spanish home privately with a clear plan for paperwork, presentation, offers, title registration, and the non-resident withholding at completion.
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A practical viewing plan for private sellers: book safely, prepare an honest route, answer buyer questions, host remote tours and follow up well.
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A composite ranking of 12 European property markets on yield, price growth, foreign-buyer friction and transaction costs, from live Seeki.eu data and Eurostat HPI figures.
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How to rent an apartment in the Netherlands as a foreigner: the housing shortage reality, what documents landlords demand, what it costs, where to look, and the contract rules that changed in 2024.
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Twelve European countries ranked for retirement on housing costs, daily prices, safety and healthcare access, with live Seeki.eu price data from August 2026.
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The document gap between dossier countries (France, Germany, Benelux) and passport countries (Spain, Italy, CEE) splits Europe in two. What you need to buy and to rent, country by country.
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Germans buy in Czechia with no permit and no transfer tax. Border-region flats ask a third of Munich's, but the loan comes in koruna.
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Seeki.eu grades every listing from A+ to F and scores its location out of 100. What both signals measure, and what to focus on if yours is below B.
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Average house prices by country in Europe: median €/m² and prices for apartments and houses in 12 countries, from live Seeki.eu listings, August 2026.
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What a Vienna flat costs by district, limited versus open-ended contracts, the deposit and agent-fee rules, and the paperwork a newcomer needs.
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What Portuguese banks lend a non-resident: the 90% and 80% central-bank ceilings, the 50% effort rate, Euribor in August 2026, and the full cost stack.
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Germans buy in Austria on equal terms, but leisure-home rules in Tirol, Salzburg and Vorarlberg bite hard. Costs, financing and tax set against Germany.
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Any nationality can buy a Slovak home: no permit, no residence test, no transfer tax. What the farmland rule covers and what registration actually costs.
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What Slovak banks ask a foreign buyer for: the EU versus non-EU split, the 80% loan-to-value cap, 2026 rates near 3.5%, and the costs beyond interest.
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Median apartment asking prices per m² across Polish cities in Q2 2026, with quarter-on-quarter change, methodology, and a free-to-cite dataset.
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Country-by-country guide to non-resident mortgages across 10 EU markets, who lends, typical LTV, loan currency, and the hurdles each country adds.
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How foreign buyers purchase property in Czechia in 2026, direct vs. s.r.o., proof of funds, notary, Land Registry, taxes, and timelines.
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The taxes and fees on buying a resale flat in Poland add about 2% to 3% on top of the price, led by the 2% PCC transfer tax. First-time buyers pay far less.
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How foreign buyers obtain a Spanish NIE in 2026, where to apply, the EX-15 form, tasa 790 fee, documents, common pitfalls, and what comes next.
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What a private sale in Czechia actually costs and involves: listing fees, the PENB, verified signatures, escrow, the Land Registry wait, and the ten-year tax test.
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What a private sale in Poland actually involves: the energy certificate, the notary and taxes, what portals charge, and the tools Seeki.eu gives a seller.
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Vienna property market mid-2026 in four tiers, prime, inner-ring, outer-ring, transformation zones, with notes on Altbau vs Neubau and live €/m² data.
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What buyers actually find in Petržalka, Bratislava's largest district. Sub-area character, panelák versus new-build, Vienna commute, and live €/m² data.
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Median asking price per m² for apartments in 26 Slovak cities, from active sale listings on Seeki.eu, with methodology and a decade of price growth.
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Median asking price per m² for apartments across 22 Czech cities, based on active sale listings on Seeki.eu, with methodology and a decade-long price comparison.
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Median asking price per m² for apartments in 20 Polish cities, from live Seeki.eu sale listings in August 2026, with methodology and an NBP decade comparison.
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What buyers actually look at, how many photos a listing needs, and how to shoot every room properly with the phone already in your pocket.
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Mispricing is the costliest mistake a private seller makes. How to price a home from real comparables, and the tools Seeki.eu gives you to do it.
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How much more do renovated apartments ask than fixer-uppers across Europe, city by city, and where the condition gap nearly vanishes.
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What it costs to rent an apartment in Polish cities, how small rental supply is next to sales, and why the Polish rental market is still underdeveloped. Median rents from active Seeki.eu listings.
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How an agency moves a CRM catalog onto Seeki.eu: the subscription, an API key, three feed formats, the imports dashboard, and the 60-day listing life.
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Berlin rent vs buy in 2026: a clear decision framework, break-even by district tier, and why Germany's tenant protections change the maths against EU peers.
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Ranked on permits, all-in costs, timelines and remote completion. Czechia leads for most foreign buyers, and four markets still gate a non-EU passport.
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How Seeki.eu turns a plain-language sentence into a structured cross-border property search across Europe.
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Prague property prices in 2026, grouped by tier, central, inner ring, outer ring, commuter belt, with live €/m² data and notes for cross-border buyers.
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Warsaw vs Kraków vs Gdańsk compared across price, jobs, transport, stock and lifestyle. Which Polish city fits which buyer in 2026, with live €/m² data.
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Real asking-rent data for 20 European cities: how many square metres €1,000 a month rents, ranked, plus each city's Seeki.eu location score.
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Real asking-price data for 20 European cities: how much apartment €200,000 buys, where it clears the median, and each city's Seeki.eu location score.
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Which property websites actually cover more than one European country, which go deepest in a single market, and how to pick between them as a cross-border buyer.
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Every market Seeki.eu covers requires an energy certificate before you can sell or let. What each one is called, how long it lasts, what it costs and what happens if you skip it.
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Most European property portals cover a single country. Here is how to compare cities, prices and individual listings across EU borders from one place.
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Italian house prices rose 5.2% in the year to Q1 2026 and sales volumes 4.4%. Median asking prices per square metre by city, plus foreign demand.
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Can non-EU citizens buy property in Europe? In 8 of 12 countries, yes, with no permit. The four that gate foreign buyers, plus the taxes and IDs to expect.
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Portugal closed the Golden Visa property route in October 2023. What's left for residency-by-investment seekers, and what a Portuguese home still gets you.
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Gross rental yields for 20 European cities, ranked: where median sale prices and asking rents make buy-to-let pay in 2026, from Poland to Germany.
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What Austrian landlords can charge tenants: the deposit cap, the 2023 agent-fee rule, the 2026 rent-increase limits, and which buildings the MRG covers.
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What buying a home really costs across 12 European countries: median prices from live listings, plus the transfer taxes and fees that add 1% to 16% on top.
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Hungarians buy in Austria on the same footing as locals, but land-transfer rules are provincial. Permits, second-home limits and the 9% to 12% cost stack.
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Half the commission since the 2020 law, the Energieausweis, deleting the Grundschuld, the ten-year tax date: what a German seller actually pays, item by item.
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What a Dutch buyer needs for a Spanish purchase: the NIE, ITP by region, non-resident mortgages, buying by power of attorney, and letting it out legally.
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Price and size filters miss what daily life runs on. How to search homes by the school, tram stop, park or pharmacy within 500 metres of the front door.
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What selling a Dutch home privately involves: the Funda restriction, the energielabel you need first, what courtage really costs, and where to advertise.
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German and Austrian buyers pay 9% registration tax on the cadastral value in Italy, plus notary and agent fees. What the purchase really costs.
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