Italy

Italian property being sold below market value

Now is the time to buy property in Italy, according to many of the country's agents, who are seeing homes in the country being sold at below market value.

9 February 2012

Why I love Italy

Four years ago A Place in the Sun presenter Amanda Lamb put her money where her mouth is bought an apartment in Italy. Here she tells us how she found her perfect pad abroad and why she loves Italy so much...

31 January 2012

UK buyers second biggest buyers in Italy

UK buyers make up the second biggest group of buyers in Italy, according to Gate-Away.com, Italy's number one property portal for non-Italian buyers, which analysed its data for 2011.

27 January 2012

Affordable Tuscany

Bestselling books and celebrity residents have fuelled property prices in the hotspots of Tuscany. But the market has now corrected itself - and affordable projects are springing up, so the Tuscan dream may not be out of reach...

1 January 2012

Property market in Italy will 'remain buoyant'

Property in Italy will continue to hold its popularity in 2012- according to one property expert.

14 December 2011

Austerity measures in Italy may mean return of property tax

Italy's new prime minister Mario Monti has proposed several new measures to help get Italy's budget deficit under control, including the possible reintroduction of a property tax axed by Silvio Berlusconi in 2008...

29 November 2011

Mel Gibson to buy in Siena

Mel Gibson has been eyeing up property in the Chianti region of Tuscany, according to reports.

22 November 2011

Be the King of the swingers in a new kind of treehouse

It's one of the most polluted cities in Europe, but Milan is going green with a unique new housing development which incorporates a vertical forest.

2 November 2011

Buy your own Venetian lagoon

Santo Spirito, an island in Venice's lagoon has been put up for sale by Italian real-estate investors for more than 20 million euros.

2 November 2011

Ask the experts: Rentals- November 2011

Getting more for your Tuscan rental property and beach vs. city in Turkey

31 October 2011

Invest in a medieval hamlet

Properties are still available at Castelfalfi, a unique development project from European based tourist company TUI.

4 October 2011

Be my guest... in Italy

Telling us his rental story this month is James Brown-Muir who has been letting out his Tuscan townhouse in the beautiful Lake Trasimeno region for three years

1 October 2011