Guides

Short, specific answers to what people ask before renting a room or finding a flatmate in Bulgaria. The numbers in them come from Strehana and update themselves.

• Your tenant asks for address registration: what a landlord in Bulgaria signs, and what you do not risk

  What the Migration Directorate wants from the owner when a foreigner rents your room: a notarised declaration, a copy of the deed, the contract. What it does not give the tenant, what it means for tax, and what the notary costs.

  Updated 29 September 2026

• Renting a room in Sofia as a foreigner: deposits, fees, contracts and the scams

  What a room in Sofia costs, what deposit is normal, when an agency fee applies, what the contract should say, how address registration works, and the scams that target newcomers. With live counts of rooms and English-speaking flatmates.

  Updated 28 September 2026

• Find a flatmate in Sofia before the flat: how newcomers split the rent

  Two people with €350 each rent a two-room flat that neither could alone. How newcomers to Sofia find each other, split the deposit and the contract, and what happens when one leaves. With live counts.

  Updated 28 September 2026