The address everyone wants.
Finally, a home to match it.
Six brand-new residences in the heart of Rethymno — the kind of home the old centre almost never offers. Built once, ready in 2027, and then there are no more.
If you've looked for a home in central Rethymno, you already know the problem.
You want to stay in the centre — near family, near the kids' school, near everything you actually use. But the homes that come up are always the same story: old buildings, dark rooms, damp in the walls, no parking, no lift, and a renovation bill before you can even move in. You end up choosing between the location you want and a home you'd actually want to live in. U Residences is built to end that choice — a brand-new home, in the centre, finished and ready. Nothing to fix. Nothing to compromise.
Central — but a real neighbourhood.
U Residences sits in Mastabas — not the tourist centre, but a genuine residential part of Rethymno where the city actually lives. Quiet streets, families, the everyday city close at hand. The street market and the shops are a few minutes' walk; the schools, the hospital and the Gallos campus are all close. The Old Town and the beach are a short drive when you want them — and far enough that you're not living in the noise.
Everything you need, before you reach for your keys.
The exact lot, from above.
U Residences sits on a central corner in Mastabas — a few minutes' walk from the market and the commercial street. This is the lot, seen from above.
Satellite view · Mastabas, Rethymno · 35.3598° N, 24.4765° E
Designed to be looked at. Built to be lived in.
U Residences was shaped by BS Architects VR as two sculpted volumes with a quiet column of light running between them — the form that gives the building its name. Carved window apertures frame the city and the light. Facades in local stone and timber tie it to Crete; clean contemporary lines make it unmistakably new. Inside, the same restraint: stone, oak, plaster and brushed metal — a calm Mediterranean palette that will look as considered in twenty years as it does on handover day. This is architecture meant to age into a landmark, not out of fashion.
Calm light, every line considered.
A consistent interior language runs through every residence — integrated lighting and joinery built from the first drawing. The images below are indicative of the interior direction; final materials and furnishings are determined during the interior design process for each home.
Indicative interior renderings. Final materials, furniture and finish selections are determined during the interior design process for each home.
Six homes. No two the same.
Three residential floors. Two homes on each. Considered, efficient space — generous where it counts, with nothing wasted.
Private covered outdoor space
A balcony or terrace for every home, made for morning coffee and long evenings.
Full heating & cooling
Integrated HVAC. Warm in January, cool in August, without thinking about it.
An energy-efficient home
A high-performance thermal envelope with dense insulation between floors. Each home holds its temperature — and runs at a fraction of the cost of a typical central apartment.
Built-in joinery
Crafted storage and cabinetry, integrated from the first drawing.
Rooftop solar
Photovoltaic panels generating ~2.8 kW per residence, with capacity for more. Lower bills, year after year.
Turnkey on handover
Finished to a premium standard. Move in; don't renovate.
Secure ground-floor parking
A private six-car parkade with rotating turntable platform — one bay for every residence, on the ground floor of the building.
Lift access to every floor
A private lift serves all three floors, from the parkade to the top level.
Private utility balcony
A discreet utility balcony attached to every residence — home to your own HVAC, hidden behind a wooden panel, and doubling as extra storage or extra outdoor when you want it.
Private basement storage
A dedicated storage room for every residence in the building's basement level — for bikes, seasonal things, and everything you don't want in your home.
Only six lights will ever come on in this building.
Three residential floors. Two homes on each. Six families, total — chosen once, kept forever. Hover any home to see its floor and size.
Drive on. Spin around. Drive off.
At the ground floor of the building, behind a secure entry, a private six-car parkade houses one bay for every residence — with a rotating turntable platform at its centre. Pull in, the platform turns your car, and you exit facing the right way. No three-point turns. No tight reversing in the old centre. One of the most stressful parts of central life, handled by the building.
- · One private bay per residence
- · Effortless entry & exit, every time
- · Secure and covered, at ground level
The floorplan.
Indicative floorplan. Materials, furniture and finish selections shown are illustrative and will be confirmed with each buyer during the interior design process.
Detailed plans for each residence are shared with Early Access registrants.
Designed around the sun.
Every part of U Residences is shaped by how the Cretan sun moves through the year. In summer, when the sun sits high, the deep balcony overhangs shade the glass and keep the interior cool — the homes stay calm without overworking their cooling.
In winter, when the sun sits lower, light passes beneath the same overhangs and strikes the glass directly. The building's heavy thermal insulation holds that warmth inside, so there's almost no heat lost back out. The same architecture that keeps you cool in August keeps you warm in January — without you having to think about it.
Solar, by design.
Above all of it, the roof is covered in photovoltaic panels — generating around 2.8 kW for every residence, with capacity to expand toward 4 kW per home. Any electricity you don't use feeds the building's common systems — the lift, the corridor lighting, the shared spaces — so the building runs itself, in part, on the Cretan sun above it. The point isn't engineering for its own sake. It's that your bills go down. Substantially. Year after year.
Every south-facing pitch turned into quiet, daily energy.
Sun in winter. Shade in summer. By design.
The luxury, in the detail.
Luxury in a home isn't a chandelier. It's what you notice in the second month, and the second year — the silence between rooms, the bill that never spikes, the system that doesn't break because it was never rushed. Here's where U Residences earns it.
Quiet between homes.
The two-volume form of the building does more than shape the façade. Apartments sit in separate volumes, with the central void between them — meaning there are no shared horizontal walls between residences across the building. Sound that would carry through a typical block has nowhere to travel. Inside each home, dense thermal insulation between floors keeps the quiet — and the temperature — entirely your own.
Your own climate.
Every residence has its own dedicated heating and cooling system, served from a private utility balcony attached to that home. That means the shortest possible refrigerant lines, almost no energy lost in transit, and a system that's cheaper to install, cheaper to service, and entirely under your control. If you ever want to add underfloor heating, you can — directly from your own balcony, no shared walls disturbed, no neighbours consulted.
The working parts, out of sight.
The HVAC unit, the boiler, the building's quiet machinery — none of it sits on your view. It lives on the utility balcony, hidden behind a slatted wooden panel that reads as part of the façade. The same space, when you want it, can double as storage or as extra outdoor.
Greener at the ground.
The ground around U Residences isn't paved over. Mature planting wraps the building, and a small public space at the rear opens onto a softer ground floor than central Rethymno usually offers — a calmer walk to your door, more green at eye level, more air around the building.
The first of more to come.
U Residences is the first CDG development on this site — and the first of a planned series across central Rethymno. A second building, with twelve additional residences, is already in design beside it. What you're buying into isn't just a single address; it's the beginning of a small, deliberate cluster of CDG homes in this part of the city.
A home in the centre that asks for no compromise.
The location, without the trade-off.
Central Rethymno almost never offers a brand-new home. Here, you get the address you want — without inheriting someone else's old building and the renovation bill that comes with it.
Comfort, built in.
No damp, no cold corners, no draughty winters. A properly insulated, energy-efficient home with full heating and cooling — comfortable in February, comfortable in August, and far cheaper to run than the old apartments in the centre.
Nothing left to do.
Delivered finished and ready to live in. No contractors, no renovation budget, no surprises — you receive the keys to a complete home, built exactly to the plans you were shown.
Twenty-five years of building in Crete.
U Residences is designed by BS Architects VR and delivered by Tekton — a Crete-based construction company with more than 25 years building homes, hotels and landmark projects across the island. That matters more than it sounds. A home is only as good as the people who actually build it, and the team here is named, local, and accountable from the first drawing to the day you receive your keys. Tekton is a Crete company. Its work is here on the island and its name is known here — you're not buying a promise from somewhere far away.
Reserve now. Settle in 2027.
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A personal consultation; select your floor and orientation while choice is widest.
Reserve
Secure your residence with a reservation agreement.
Move in
Handover of your finished, turnkey home in 2027.
Six homes. The first choice goes to the first to ask.
U Residences has not yet opened to the public. Before launch, a small number of buyers are being given Early Access — and with it, a set of advantages reserved only for the first families to commit. We don't publish what those advantages are. We share them privately, with people who have registered their interest. Once the public launch begins, this window closes — and it will not open again.
Questions, answered.
Handover is planned for 2027. Registrants receive the detailed schedule.
Six homes in total, across three residential floors (1st, 2nd and 3rd) — two per floor, each roughly 86–88 m².
Yes. U Residences is open to both Greek and international buyers, and our team guides you through every step of the Greek purchase process.
Yes — delivered turnkey, finished to a premium standard. There is nothing to renovate.
Yes. A private six-car parkade sits at the ground floor of the building. It also features a rotating turntable platform — drive on, the platform spins your car to face the right way, so entering, exiting, and parking is effortless even in a tight central footprint.
Buyers pay the standard Greek property transfer tax (roughly 3%, including the municipal surcharge) plus notary and legal fees. Our team will walk you through the full picture.
Yes. Full freehold ownership, transferred to you by Greek notarial deed.
Pricing is shared privately with Early Access registrants. Register above and we'll send you the full details.
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Six residences. One of them could be yours.
The public launch hasn't happened yet. Right now, you're early — and being early is the whole advantage.