Vilnius Municipality Warns Against Misleading Property Advertising: Buyers Have Unreasonable Expectations

“For sale a plot of 2.75 ha in Bajorai, price 3,020,000 euros, preliminary offer – in the photo”, announces the seller on the real estate ads portal.

“This misleads the public and generates unfounded expectations: the municipality has not received any project proposal for the development plans of this parcel and would not approve them as seen in the material presented by the seller,” says the vice mayor of the city of Vilnius, Tomás Gulbinas. .

The parcel of land offered for purchase from the southern boundary of the parcel is bounded by Calle Medilo and a residential complex of several apartments under development, and on the north side of the parcel, neighboring parcels are dominated by a residential house each a. According to the specialists of the Department of City Architects, in this context, the development of the building on the aforementioned land should be in harmony with the existing building: a more intensive construction on the street is possible, but quieter next to the one or two bedroom houses.

In addition, when planning development, the main solutions of the new general plan of the Vilnius city municipality, which is in the approval process, should be considered: extensive construction of residential areas in this area is planned, when the floors of one or more two floors of 1-3 – Residential apartment buildings with ancillary farm buildings are built on a separate lot. Buildings on the parcel boundaries can be locked (paired) with buildings on the adjacent land parcel. The maximum possible number of dwellings on a plot of land is two.

“The municipality has not approved such blueprint proposals in any way,” said T. Gulbinas. – Although the project for sale does not contradict the current Master Plan with its solutions, the municipality also considers the urban context when determining possible building indicators. In this case, it is dominated by a different, rarer construction than the one proposed in the proposals. The quality of the urban solution created by the solutions presented is also questionable: spatial structure, housing density, access network ”.