Many of Umbria’s most beautiful country homes are reached by a private or shared road: a gravel track through olive groves, a lane across a neighbour’s land or a local rural road maintained by the owners who use it. Before you make an offer, you should know who owns that road, whether you have…
In Umbria, a pool can be one of the main reasons a farmhouse or country villa costs what it does. Before you make an offer, you should know whether that pool was lawfully built, whether it is correctly reflected in the documents and whether the offer protects you if it is not. Many Umbrian…
When you buy an agriturismo, you are usually buying two different things: a property and a business. The property transfers with the deed. The right to run the business does not transfer automatically. An agriturismo in Italy exists only as part of a working farm, run by someone with agricultural status, under national and…
Buying a Sardinian Property With Unauthorised Works: Risks Before You Sign A sea-view villa in Sardinia can look renovated, valuable and ready to buy while an extension, enclosed veranda, guest annex, swimming pool, terrace or change of use has never been properly authorised. Foreign buyers should not sign an offer or pay a deposit…
No: a foreign buyer does not always need an Italian bank account to buy property in Italy. But opening and using one can become practical – and sometimes important — depending on how the purchase is structured, the lender, the notary, the seller and the source of funds. A foreign buyer often begins with…
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