Sea-view 1+1, 80 m from the beach, Plazh Iliria

A 1+1 apartment with a sea view at Plazh Iliria in Durrës, eighty metres from the water. The gross area is 61 m² and the net 50.5 m²: a living room with kitchen, a bedroom, a bathroom and a balcony, on the fourth floor. The building has a lift and is managed all year round, and the mortgage documentation is in order. On this stretch of coast the phrase that matters is "all year round". Many beachfront blocks in Durrës are effectively shut from October to May — lifts switched off, common areas neglected. A managed building is one you can live in through the winter, and one where a flat let in summer is still in good order when the next season starts. The quarter is quiet outside July and August. The flat works as a holiday base, as a seasonal rental — a sea-view one-bedroom eighty metres from the beach is the easiest kind of place to let here — or as a year-round home for someone who wants the sea at the door.