A research directory for island property.

What happens when one property is listed by more than one agency?

Non-exclusive agreements are normal in Greece, so the same house can appear in more than one of the catalogues we read. Where the fields match it is shown once, with each agency's own asking price and its own link, and neither price is reconciled against the other.

How is price per square metre calculated?

Where a record has both an asking price and an area, we divide one by the other and show the result on that record's page and on its result card, labelled there with the area it was divided by. For a building that is the floor area; for a plot it is the land area. Both come from the labelled specification the source publishes, and a listing that publishes no area gets no figure. It is a calculation about a single listing and not a market rate. The market rates live on each island's own overview, Corfu, Crete, Kefalonia, Lefkada and Santorini: a median per square metre for that island and for each of its localities with enough priced, measured records to support one, each stating the sample count and collection date beside the figure. It is not adjusted for condition, position, or plot, so two figures on this site are comparable only in the loosest sense.

How does IsleScout measure what is near a property?

Distances to the coast, beaches, the main town, the airport, ferry terminals, the hospital, marinas, golf courses, shops, pharmacies, clinics, schools, and bus stops are calculated from OpenStreetMap positions (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), read on Corfu 6 to 7 August 2026, Crete 9 August 2026, Kefalonia 9 August 2026, Lefkada 8 August 2026 and Santorini 9 August 2026. Distance to the coast is measured against the same coastline the maps draw. Every property page states the nearest of every one of these at any distance, so a figure is never missing because the place is far away; the counts beside them are of what falls within 2 km, and a count of none is written as a word rather than as a zero. The everyday kinds, which are the shop, the pharmacy, the clinic, the school, the bus stop, the bank, the fuel station and the beach, are measured as a walking route on the mapped footpath and road network and are rounded to five minutes; a path nobody has mapped is one the router cannot use, so a walk errs long rather than short. A walking time is a flat-ground pace and does not read the gradient, so on a slope it describes the way down and the way back is the longer half. The airport, the main town, the ferry port and the hospital are routed drives. The distance to the coast, the marina and the golf course are straight lines between two coordinates. Every row on every page says which of the three it is, and where no route has been measured a row falls back to the straight line and says so. Records held at locality or approximate precision are measured from the locality centre and are rounded to match.

Two rows are narrower than the OpenStreetMap tag behind them. The hospital is the one with an emergency department: village surgeries carrying the same tag are counted as doctors and clinics instead. The ferry port is a port with scheduled vehicle sailings, so small-boat landings and seasonal passenger boats to nearby islets are left out.

What each of these means on a particular island, which ports count as its ferry ports and which building is its hospital, is stated on that island's own pages, beside the figures it explains.

A place that is not listed is a place OpenStreetMap does not record, which is not the same as a place that is not there. Place names are shown in Latin script: OpenStreetMap's own English or international name where there is one, otherwise the Greek name transliterated by the ELOT 743 rules Greek road signs use, so a name here matches the sign.

Where do terrain and drive times come from?

Elevation and slope come from the EU-DEM 25 metre elevation grid (Copernicus), and drive times from routing on the OpenStreetMap road network. Both are read once when a record is ingested and stored against its measured coordinate, so no page fetches them and every record in one village shares one measurement. A 25 metre grid describes the hillside and not the plot: it cannot see a terrace cut into a slope or a retaining wall. Slope is the gradient across a 30 metre ring. "Ground falls all the way to the shore" is a straight sight line over that grid to the nearest coastline, which is what a sea view needs and nowhere near all it needs; it is not a view from a window and no building, tree, or window aspect is in it. A drive time is the routing engine's estimate with no traffic and no season in it, rounded to five minutes, and it is not a timetable: ferry sailings and flight schedules are not published here.

Is internet coverage published?

Both fixed-line and mobile are, per record: the fastest download providers state they can supply in the area, read from two coverage layers on the national broadband map run by the Ministry of Digital Governance, plus the distance to the nearest address registered for fibre. Providers file their own coverage at least once a year, so it is what can be ordered and not a speed test, and the fibre distance says fibre has reached the village rather than a particular building. Fixed and mobile are read independently, so a record can carry one without the other.

Where does IsleScout get its listing data?

Records from a source hold factual fields only: price, type, size, condition, locality, and approximate position, with a short summary written by IsleScout from those fields. Listing images are shown from the source's own address. Original descriptions and agent contact details are not republished here.

What happens when you leave for the original listing?

A property page shows the source name only. Choosing to view the original opens a confirmation step first. IsleScout does not handle the enquiry and does not verify that a listing is still available.

Where does the map data come from?

The Corfu, Crete, Kefalonia, Lefkada and Santorini coastlines are simplified from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL). Markers are plotted from each record's stored coordinates, and their precision is labelled on every property page.

How do I request removal of a listing?

Write to contact@islescout.com with the page address. Records are removed on request, with no proof of ownership required and no questions asked, normally within five working days.

What does IsleScout do with your listings?

IsleScoutBot reads public listing pages, and this is all of what it publishes from one. A record holds factual fields only: price, type, size, location, and condition, with a short summary IsleScout writes from those fields. Your listing description is not copied. Agent and owner contact details are never republished. Photographs are not copied or stored anywhere: an image is displayed from your own address and credited to you by name. Every record carries your name and links to your original listing, so a visitor who wants more than those fields arrives on your page.

The reading is done once a week, under the name IsleScoutBot and no other. It reads your robots.txt first and follows what it says, and it asks for at most one page every two seconds, slower where your robots.txt asks for slower.

To have one record removed, or everything from your site, write to contact@islescout.com. No proof of ownership is required and no questions are asked. A site removed this way stays out of collection afterwards. The same address reaches us for anything that is not a removal, a field we have wrong or a property that has sold included.