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.
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…



