A Puglian trullo may be advertised as having “potential to extend”, “room for another bedroom” or “permission possible for a new lamia”. None of those phrases means you can build it. Before paying a price that assumes an extension, establish what lawfully exists, whether any additional volume is actually permitted and whether the project…
Your offer to buy an Italian property has been accepted. A week later, the agent sends a longer contratto preliminare—the compromesso—and asks you to sign. It adds a larger deposit, removes a condition or changes the date by which the seller must deliver the property. You do not have to accept new terms merely…
A restored masseria in the Valle d’Itria can be one of the most beautiful properties in Italy. Before you make an offer, you should know whether the restoration you are paying for was authorised, whether every suite, terrace and pool is lawfully part of the property and whether the hospitality potential in the listing…
When a seller says “we will regularise it before the deed”, the buyer is being asked to accept a future result in exchange for a present commitment. Before you sign an offer or pay a deposit, you should know exactly what will be regularised, how completion will be proved, by when, and what happens…
Leaving an Italian property empty for part of the year does not mean that someone can simply move in and become the owner. A foreign buyer who uses a villa, apartment, farmhouse or holiday home for only a few weeks or months each year does not automatically lose legal protection merely because they live…
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