# Furnishing your Cyprus apartment on a budget (and the AC tip newcomers miss) > Furnish a Cyprus apartment cheaply with second-hand furniture from Bazaraki and Vendora, plus the older-apartment AC cleaning tip newcomers miss. - Canonical: https://periodiko.com/furnishing-cyprus-apartment-budget/ - Updated: 2026-07-06 --- Moving to Cyprus and staring at an empty apartment? You do not need to buy everything new. Between two well-established local marketplaces and one small request to your landlord before you sign, you can furnish a place comfortably for a fraction of retail cost — and sidestep the single most common comfort mistake newcomers make in older buildings. ## Buy furniture and appliances second-hand The fastest way to save real money when you arrive is to buy used furniture and electrical appliances instead of new. Cyprus has an active second-hand culture, and a few marketplaces cover most of it. Check both and compare before you commit — the same sofa, fridge or washing machine often appears on one and not the other, and the asking prices differ. - **[Bazaraki](https://www.bazaraki.com/)** is Cyprus's largest general classifieds site. It carries dedicated furniture and electronics-and-appliances sections alongside cars, property and jobs, so it is the broadest single place to look — beds, sofas, fridges, washing machines and more, listed daily across Nicosia, Larnaca, Limassol and Paphos. It is where most residents start. - **[Vendora](https://www.vendora.cy/)** is a second-hand marketplace popular with local private sellers across Cyprus and Greece. It leans more toward individual sellers clearing out household items, which can mean friendlier prices on the everyday things you need to fill a flat. - **[Facebook Marketplace](https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/)** is where much of the expat and local community sells furniture and appliances directly — people leaving the island often offload everything at once. Search your city, arrange collection, and haggle politely; joining a few local buy-and-sell Facebook groups tends to surface the best deals before they reach the wider marketplace. For the big-ticket items — fridge, washing machine, sofa, bed — buying used commonly costs meaningfully less than retail. Where you can, see appliances actually running before you pay, and factor in whether the seller can deliver or you will need a van. ## A tip for families: cheap children's books and locker delivery If you are moving with kids, [Vendora](https://www.vendora.cy/) is worth a special look. It has a large collection of children's books and cartoons at very good prices — the kind of thing that adds up quickly when you are rebuilding a home library from scratch after a move. Vendora also supports **BoxNow** delivery. BoxNow is an automated parcel-locker network: instead of waiting at home for a courier, your order is dropped into a self-service locker near you and you collect it with a code, often within a couple of working days. It is cheap and convenient, and for light items like books it is usually the most sensible way to receive a Vendora order. ## The AC tip newcomers miss: clean it before you move in Here is the insight that saves the most grief in a Cyprus summer. If you rent an **older apartment**, insist that the landlord has the air-conditioning units **professionally cleaned before you move in** — or agree it in writing before you sign the tenancy. Air-conditioners that have gone years without a service tend to harbour mould inside the unit. The first properly hot day you switch one on, it pushes a musty, damp smell out across the whole room — and dealing with it after you have moved in is far more of a hassle than asking for it up front. A professional clean is inexpensive: budget roughly **€25 per unit** as a rough guide. The framing that works: when you view the apartment, ask the owner to have the AC cleaned as a condition of moving in. Most reasonable landlords will agree — it is a small cost to them and a normal request — and getting it noted in the tenancy agreement removes any ambiguity later. Walk in to a freshly cleaned unit and your first heatwave is a non-event instead of a smell you have to chase. ## Getting a car? Ask about a relocation discount Furnishing is only half of settling in — most newcomers also need a car, and some importers run relocation offers you only get if you ask for them. [CarsJapan](https://carsjapan.cy/), for example, gives **€500 off any car in stock** for people relocating to Cyprus — but you have to mention it when you enquire; it is not applied automatically. Wherever you buy, ask up front whether a relocation or newcomer discount is available before you agree a price. ## Frequently asked questions The answers below cover the questions newcomers ask most when kitting out a first Cyprus home on a budget.