Yes, it is possible to buy and renovate an Italian country house while living abroad. Many foreign owners manage a farmhouse, villa, rural home or historic property in Italy without travelling for every document, meeting, contractor visit or payment. However, remote renovation should not be treated as a series of informal messages, verbal quotations…
Buying a home in Italy often creates a practical question immediately after completion: how do you transfer electricity, gas, water and other utilities into your name? For foreign buyers, that practical step can become confused with much larger legal questions. A utility account in your name does not automatically make you legally resident in…
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…
The Difference Can Decide What You Lose or Recover Before you pay any money for an Italian property, you need to know what that payment is called in the contract, what it does legally and what happens if the sale does not complete. A seller or estate agent may ask you to pay a…
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…
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