from 1 July any act of sale must include a certificate of energy saving which every house in Italy will eventually need and should be displayed next to the numero civico of the property.
Prelazione is the right of a neighbour to have preference on the purchase of land. The neighbour must be under 70 years old, a coltivatore diretto or azienda agricola, or renting the land with a regular contract. If this is the case he has first option on the land for the price you are paying. It isnt picking a bit he likes though, its all or nothing. He has the right within 18 months from the date of the act to excercise his right to buy. Obviously its best to get him to waive his right before you sign the act, otehrwise it can happen that someone comes along after a year and you lose it all. It obviously means you should not underdeclare the sale price, as the neighbour will only have to pay the price declared at act.
The bare minimum you need is a buyer, a seller, and a notaio. Everything else is an optional. As buyers you can choose the notaio, dont take the recommendation of the seller. Do you need a lawyer - not if its a straightfoward sale, no. Using a third party company - if they are not an estate agent (ie licenced and working legally in Italy) then you are chucking your money away. You have no legal comeback of they make a pigs ear of it all and you end up ruined. A buyers agent is that because they work illegally in ITaly or legally in the UK - they have no legal right to any commission and you're wasting your time paying them a fortune. Do you need an agent - moot point. Im an agent - and I cant imagine buying a property in Italy without an agent, knowing what I know now after 6 years. The paperwork is mind-numbing and getting worse all the time. Admittedly a good notaio will help alot - but the seller needs to provide alot of stuff now, adn the buyer needs to ask all the right questions. Just because a Brit is selling doesnt make it a simple matter - in my experience some of the worst sellers (economical with the truth) were foreigners. Its not worth buying any old book - the law is constant flux you need one that is very recent - (mine obviously is the best!) But basically it is possible to buy without an agent - if your ITalian is good and you are happy spending hours shunting from one office to another, getting copies of bits of paper that dont exist, tracking down ancient rights of servitù, prelazione, usufrutto etc then its fine. If you speak no Italian, want a pain free and relatively quick experience, get someone to help.
I agree with you Penny, in as much as the small family industries are the backbone of italian business, but they are hugely penalised by the govt. What I was referring to was the Finmeccanica side of italy - huge, lumbering 'state' firms - shipyards, and so on - all the stuff that died a death in the 80s in the UK - in favour of a service economy. Nobody has the guts to offer an alternative, or accept that its days are numbered, it is impossible to be competitive in the face of the emerging economies. So either they will retain govt contracts leading to huge overspends and criminal waste, or they will go to the wall - with no safety net for the poor sods who work there.
The only countries which have had lower growth than Italy over the last ten years are Zinbabwe and Haiti - not alot to write home about. I disagree with Capo Boi on the scale of the fallout if Greece were to disappear from the eurozone - at least fiscally there would be a huge sigh of relief, politically it would be like the Night of the Long Knives - and I suppose in theory Europe (as a single union) could teeter, but realistically GErmany and France are Europe and they will do what they like while the rest of us tag along. Italy has a humungous national debt that Berlusconi has done nothing about, and never would - its too amorphous a concept for Italian voters who want results tomorrow. Italy is now at the point that the UK reached in 79, and while I would never wish a second Margaret Thatcher on anyone, someone has to do the dirty work and tell the Italians that an old style manufacturing economy is now worth zilch, work and homes are not a constitutional right, and that the Unions need to get out of their 1960s mindset and accept that the world has changed. If they dont do this sharpish then Italy is well and truly stuffed and will follow the other countries down the euro plughole. And I speak as a leftie!
A single person must have 6040 euros pa income, a couple 8200 and a family 10400 or more. A bank statement or even autodichiarazione should be enough. Health insurance is more tricky and depends entirely on the comune where you live .... in le Marche it seems a nightmare!
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Prelazione is the right of a neighbour to have preference on the purchase of land. The neighbour must be under 70 years old, a coltivatore diretto or azienda agricola, or renting the land with a regular contract. If this is the case he has first option on the land for the price you are paying. It isnt picking a bit he likes though, its all or nothing. He has the right within 18 months from the date of the act to excercise his right to buy. Obviously its best to get him to waive his right before you sign the act, otehrwise it can happen that someone comes along after a year and you lose it all. It obviously means you should not underdeclare the sale price, as the neighbour will only have to pay the price declared at act.
The bare minimum you need is a buyer, a seller, and a notaio. Everything else is an optional. As buyers you can choose the notaio, dont take the recommendation of the seller. Do you need a lawyer - not if its a straightfoward sale, no. Using a third party company - if they are not an estate agent (ie licenced and working legally in Italy) then you are chucking your money away. You have no legal comeback of they make a pigs ear of it all and you end up ruined. A buyers agent is that because they work illegally in ITaly or legally in the UK - they have no legal right to any commission and you're wasting your time paying them a fortune. Do you need an agent - moot point. Im an agent - and I cant imagine buying a property in Italy without an agent, knowing what I know now after 6 years. The paperwork is mind-numbing and getting worse all the time. Admittedly a good notaio will help alot - but the seller needs to provide alot of stuff now, adn the buyer needs to ask all the right questions. Just because a Brit is selling doesnt make it a simple matter - in my experience some of the worst sellers (economical with the truth) were foreigners. Its not worth buying any old book - the law is constant flux you need one that is very recent - (mine obviously is the best!) But basically it is possible to buy without an agent - if your ITalian is good and you are happy spending hours shunting from one office to another, getting copies of bits of paper that dont exist, tracking down ancient rights of servitù, prelazione, usufrutto etc then its fine. If you speak no Italian, want a pain free and relatively quick experience, get someone to help.
I thought that the maximum domestic supply was 10kw - any more than that and everything changes - or is that no longer the case?
Dont know why but visions of Kathy Bates and Jack Nicholson in snow clad retreats come to mind. Good luck.
If you're no going back within a few days of flying out perhaps its too far away to check in on line....
I agree with you Penny, in as much as the small family industries are the backbone of italian business, but they are hugely penalised by the govt. What I was referring to was the Finmeccanica side of italy - huge, lumbering 'state' firms - shipyards, and so on - all the stuff that died a death in the 80s in the UK - in favour of a service economy. Nobody has the guts to offer an alternative, or accept that its days are numbered, it is impossible to be competitive in the face of the emerging economies. So either they will retain govt contracts leading to huge overspends and criminal waste, or they will go to the wall - with no safety net for the poor sods who work there.
The only countries which have had lower growth than Italy over the last ten years are Zinbabwe and Haiti - not alot to write home about. I disagree with Capo Boi on the scale of the fallout if Greece were to disappear from the eurozone - at least fiscally there would be a huge sigh of relief, politically it would be like the Night of the Long Knives - and I suppose in theory Europe (as a single union) could teeter, but realistically GErmany and France are Europe and they will do what they like while the rest of us tag along. Italy has a humungous national debt that Berlusconi has done nothing about, and never would - its too amorphous a concept for Italian voters who want results tomorrow. Italy is now at the point that the UK reached in 79, and while I would never wish a second Margaret Thatcher on anyone, someone has to do the dirty work and tell the Italians that an old style manufacturing economy is now worth zilch, work and homes are not a constitutional right, and that the Unions need to get out of their 1960s mindset and accept that the world has changed. If they dont do this sharpish then Italy is well and truly stuffed and will follow the other countries down the euro plughole. And I speak as a leftie!
A single person must have 6040 euros pa income, a couple 8200 and a family 10400 or more. A bank statement or even autodichiarazione should be enough. Health insurance is more tricky and depends entirely on the comune where you live .... in le Marche it seems a nightmare!
how strange that you can see it in the Uk and in Italy it's nowhere to be seen. ....
On the whole I agree with Gaia - 30% discount means unhappy clients - pay peanuts get monkeys etc.