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Can You Trust DeepL or Google Translate to Read an Italian Property Contract?
You paste the Italian offer or preliminary contract into DeepL, Google Translate or ChatGPT. Seconds later you have clean, fluent English. It reads like a normal contract, and nothing alarming jumps out. That fluency is the problem. Translation tools translate language, not law. An Italian clause can be translated accurately, word for word, and…
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Offer Accepted, Then the Deal Collapsed: Do You Still Owe the Italian Agent?
Your offer on an Italian property was accepted. A few weeks later, the purchase falls apart: the mortgage is refused, the seller backs out, or the checks reveal a problem nobody mentioned. Then the agency sends an invoice for its commission. Many buyers assume that in Italy, as in the UK or the US,…