What a Limassol building pays in a year
The figures that circulate for common expenses in Limassol, what each one actually counts, and why the management fee is the smallest part of any of them.
Numbers for common expenses in Limassol circulate widely and rarely say what they count. Here are the ones we see most, with their source and their scope, so that a committee comparing its own budget knows what it is comparing.
The figures that circulate
- €1,000 to €1,400 per apartment per year in tourist-area complexes. This is a complaint figure from one press report in May 2026, quoted by owners unhappy with what they pay. It is a real number from real buildings; it is not a statistic.
- €1,200 to €2,260 per year per 100 m² as a Limassol range on one property portal’s own estimate, for a broad basket of costs. Pool complexes on the same portal’s estimate: €1,800 to €3,000 a year per apartment. Buildings with no pool, garden or lift: €360 to €840.
- About 40 % of common expenses is electricity, on one industry guide’s estimate. In a building with a pool and a lift, the summer months are where that share lives.
All three are estimates by the people who published them, and none of them is a survey.
What each one counts
A figure per 100 m² counts the running costs apportioned by area, which is how the law splits them. A figure per apartment mixes buildings of different sizes. A complaint figure counts what an unhappy owner paid, including the repairs that made them unhappy. None of them separates the management fee from the rest.
Where the fee sits
In every one of these figures, the management company’s fee is a small part. At €10 to €20 per apartment per month, ours is €120 to €240 a year against running costs of ten times that in a complex with a pool. The rest of the bill is the building’s own money, passing through. That is why we show the fee as one named line and why the statement shows everything else at the provider’s price.
What to do with your own number
Take last year’s total, split it into the four layers, and see which one moved. Almost always it is electricity or a repair, and almost never the fee. The guide to reading the statement does exactly that, line by line.
