About Home-Villa

We are a UK family who bought a home in rural Bulgaria for less than the price of a used car. No mortgage. No debt. Just a stone house in a full EU country that belongs to us completely.

We did not set out to buy a house in Bulgaria. We looked at Spain. Portugal. Greece. All beautiful, all out of reach for the kind of thing we actually wanted — something fully paid, something ours, somewhere our children could return to every summer without it costing us everything.

Then someone mentioned Bulgaria. We laughed. Then we looked at the prices. Then we visited.

"The research took months. The mistakes cost time. The guide is what we wish had existed when we started."

What This Site Is

Home-Villa is a practical resource for anyone seriously exploring rural property in Bulgaria. It covers buying, regions, renovation, village life and what things actually cost — written from inside this life, not from the outside looking in.

The Complete Bulgaria Bundle is seven guides built from real experience — the legal process, real renovation costs with actual store names and prices, the water checks that saved us from an expensive mistake, and the regional breakdown nobody else covers honestly.

What This Site Is Not

We are not estate agents. We are not solicitors. We are not financial advisors. Nothing on this site is professional advice — it is personal experience, honestly shared. We always say so. And we always recommend independent professional advice before any property decision.

A Note on AI

Some content on this site was drafted with AI assistance. All of it has been reviewed, corrected and verified by us — against our own experience, our own research and our own life here. In compliance with the EU AI Act (effective 1 August 2026), we disclose this clearly. The experience behind the content is entirely human and entirely ours.