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What if you could live in Italy without buying right away — and without paying tourist prices?

Between abandonment, short stays, and hard-to-sell homes, a new idea is taking shape.

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ITS ITALY
Oct 17, 2025
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Actual view from one of our properties

Across the small towns and villages where we work, one truth keeps surfacing:
between abandonment, short stays, and stagnant sales, the housing market is frozen.

On one side, streets full of “For Sale” signs — and owners convinced that their old family homes, lacking comfort or habitability, are worth as much as new b…

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