The realm of real estate has even spread to the Great Hall, called the zombie capital: apartments costing several hundred euros are simply being looted.

Didžiasalis elder Antanas Pauliukėnas said that even more transactions were concluded privately. It is strange that the new owners do not move into the purchased apartments.

Buy with visas, you want to escape

It has been previously announced that properties in the Great Plain with particularly low prices are attractive to third-country nationals, such as Russians or Belarusians.

The Delfi Migration Department has previously explained that if a foreigner from outside the European Union has a document confirming that they have acquired real estate in Lithuania, they can be issued a Schengen visa. This visa entitles the foreigner to enter the Schengen area and stay there for the number of days specified in the visa. The maximum period of stay in the Schengen area with this visa is 90 days during a period of 180 days.

However, the managers of Turto bankas selling real estate in Didžiasalis claim that by communicating with potential buyers, the impression is created that the quarantine and people’s desire to escape to the road had the biggest impact on the market turmoil. .

“People call and purposely ask what objects are offered on the road.

In towns like the Great Hall you can buy an apartment for a few hundred euros. Of course, the condition of such apartments is not good and it is necessary to invest in repairs, but after tidying it is possible to escape from the city to the maintained city (neat streets, private houses), closer to nature.

Another category of buyers are Lithuanians living abroad, they buy apartments so cheap that they have a place to stay when they return to Lithuania. Both individuals and companies have bought several apartments in Didžiasalis ”, explains the comment provided by Turto bankas.

According to the managers of the Property Bank, it is not difficult to sell the property at the moment, prices are rising and objects are being looted.

“During this year in Didžiasalis we have sold 23 apartments for 22 thousand. The cheapest apartment costs just over 300 euros, the most expensive: 2650 euros.

Currently, in the Great Hall 7 more objects are offered in auctions, of which 6 are floors or parts of floors and a residential house with a lot, 3 of these objects are inherited property.

This year it is planned to prepare 4 more objects for sale in this town, 2 of which are inherited property. They are all departments or parts of them, ”Turto Bankas reported.

Not everything is easy to sell

For her part, Irina Gavrilova, director of STI’s arrears management department, said that the sale of apartments on the Big Island was difficult due to their terrible condition.

“The entry doors of most apartments have been broken, almost all apartments have very peeling walls and floors, floor tiles are cracked, crumbling, linoleum is bouncing, wallpaper is peeling, torn or dirty, almost all apartments do not have a sink or toilet in the bathroom or toilet they are, vandalized or dismantled Most of the apartments have untidy sanitary facilities.

The poor technical and sanitary condition of the aforementioned departments was determined by the fact that the State inherited them from single people who had no heirs, ”he said.

During 2020, the State Tax Inspectorate sold 7 apartments in Didžiasalis, the sale prices of which ranged between 121 and 273 euros. According to the real estate registry, three people with the same last name (possibly spouses and their child) bought six apartments.

During the first half of 2021, the STI did not sell apartments in Didžiasalis, and currently the STI still offers to buy eight apartments or parts of them in Didžiasalis.

It is a 3-room apartment for 979.21 euros, 2 rooms for 140 euros, 2 rooms for 1002 euros and another 2-room apartment for 756.20 euros, but its staircase has been preserved (heating disconnected, electricity, supply of water), the neighbors have been evicted.

STI continues to sell half a 1-bedroom apartment for 532 euros, half a 2-bedroom apartment for 346.68 euros, half a 3-bedroom apartment for 819 euros and the other half a 3-bedroom apartment for 462.23 euros.

“It is worth mentioning that as of March 20, 2015, the STI has not managed real estate. As of that date, all real estate to be transferred to the state is managed by the Property Bank. The STI sells only those properties that began to be managed before that date ”, added I. Gavrilova.

At the end of June, seven advertisements for apartments for sale in Didžiasalis could be found on the advertisement portal Aruodas. Four of them were from Turto Bankas, but the other three appear to be sold by the owners.

3150 euros are requested for a 2-room apartment, 4.2 thousand euros for a 3-room apartment. and 2.2 thousand. euros.

There are also two houses for sale in the Great Room. 13 thousand square meters are requested for a one-story house of 84 square meters. euros, for 101 square meters. m 2-story house – 14 thousand. euros.

Two more pitches are offered. For 80 acres with the lake shore, 26 thousand. EUR, and for agriculture 189 hectares – 16 thousand. euros.

Few want to work

A. Pauliukėnas told Delfi that he saw another settler, but that it would not be clear to him about the owners of many new ones.

“Anyway, after buying those apartments, what? Often the walls are bare, empty apartment, nothing. It still takes a large investment to make it habitable. Of course, there are all kinds, but much of them It is unlikely that you will live immediately after your purchase.

I can’t comment on why I buy because I don’t know. I lost contact with anyone who bought from Turto bankas or STI. There are those who are renovating, but if they are locals or settlers, I cannot say. This is a private matter, “said the old man.

A. Pauliukėnas noted that Didžiasalis has been remarkably renewed in recent years.

“European Union project funds have been invested. Almost 1 million Euro investment in land, school stadium, sidewalks, lighting in the central part. Reformed central square, rooftop for events. Whoever comes to life, a completely different image” , He said.

However, according to the interlocutor, the youth on the Big Island continues to decline.

“Of course, people of respectable age leave. Instead, they buy another apartment, but it is the people from the villages who already have a hard time driving there. They moved from a rural house to a city, bought an apartment; recently they have there have been several such cases.

One of the younger people will also come, but I wouldn’t say it would be massive. As for the honorable and willing to work, we are very few, “said A. Pauliukėnas.

According to the last census of 2011, there were 1,299 inhabitants on the Big Island near the border with Belarus in the Ignalina district.

The Great Hall was previously known for its brick factory, which closed in 1994. As a result, a large part of the population moved, abandoned apartment buildings.