It started with frustration. I wanted a cheap European house — not an investment, not a flip, just a place to spend time. But every portal seemed designed to waste it: endless duplicates, sold listings still live, photos that had nothing to do with reality, and prices that ballooned the moment you asked a question.
Croatia first.
I found a small stone house on the coast that no algorithm would have surfaced. It was cheap because it was messy, not because it was bad. The paperwork took longer than the renovation. I wrote the whole thing down in Getting a second home abroad.
Then Greece.
The second purchase was different — islands, different bureaucracy, different traps. We documented that too in How we bought a house in Greece. By then I knew two things for sure: the cheap houses are out there, but they are buried under noise. And the people who actually buy them learn to filter fast.
Why 11 Houses?
I started the newsletter to send the kind of shortlist I wished I had: a few genuinely interesting properties per issue, each checked, priced in EUR, and described in plain language. No affiliate links, no estate-agent fluff, no urgency tricks.
The app is the archive of everything we have featured. You can search by country, type, setting, and price. Sold listings and dead links are removed automatically. It is a members-only catalogue because the work of keeping it clean is only possible when the audience is small and serious.
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Also by me
If cheap houses and European bureaucracy are your idea of fun, you might also like 11risks.com (a risk-focused side project) or my personal site at filipmolcan.com.