Insights
Legal analysis, regulatory updates, and market perspective for international investors acquiring assets in Italy.
Real Estate
Listed Italian buildings carry a vincolo under D.Lgs. 42/2004: 60-day State pre-emption, Soprintendenza consent for works, criminal penalties, IMU and tax reliefs.
Real Estate
How non-resident foreign buyers obtain Italian mortgage finance in 2026: LTV limits, documentation, notarial costs, and the traps in preliminary contracts.
Real Estate
Buying in Le Marche: seismic and post-2016 reconstruction checks, rural land pre-emption, purchase taxes and IMU. A lawyer's guide for foreign buyers.
Real Estate
Low prices in Abruzzo still need legal checks: title, planning and cadastral conformity, the compromesso deposit, purchase taxes and IMU. A lawyer's guide.
Real Estate
Farmhouse or hill-town home in Umbria? Planning and cadastral checks, heritage limits, purchase taxes and IMU: a lawyer's guide for foreign buyers.
Real Estate
Farmhouse or villa in Tuscany? Planning compliance, farmland pre-emption, purchase taxes and the compromesso deposit: what foreign buyers must check first.
Real Estate
A complete legal guide for foreign investors buying property in Puglia: due diligence, trulli, masserie, taxes, and key pitfalls to avoid in 2026.
Real Estate
Before you buy on Lake Como: landscape limits, shoreline rules, the compromesso deposit, purchase taxes and IMU. An Italian lawyer's guide for foreigners.
Real Estate
Unpermitted building (abusivismo), cadastral gaps, €1-house schemes and purchase taxes: what a foreign buyer in Sicily must check before signing anything.
Legal Update
Italy's investor visa for non-EU nationals: €250k startup, €500k company, €1M donation or €2M state bonds. Nulla osta, 2-year permit, family, tax.
Legal Update
Italy's elective residence visa for people living on passive income: income needed, consulate to Questura, no work allowed, and the tax-residency trap.
Tax & Regulation
Italian inheritance tax is 4-8%; spouse and children pay 4% above €1M each. What non-residents owe on Italian property, EU succession rules, US/UK issues.
Tax & Regulation
Non-residents pay IMU on Italian homes (base rate 0.86%, due 16 June and 16 December). Reductions, paying from abroad, and why IVIE rarely applies.
Real Estate
Every short let in Italy needs a CIN in the listing and at the door. How non-resident owners get one on the BDSR portal, safety kit, fines up to €8,000.
Real Estate
Step by step for Americans buying Italian property: codice fiscale, bank account, compromesso, rogito, closing costs and paying from a US account.
Agricultural & Wine
Buying an Italian wine estate? Check neighbours' pre-emption rights (prelazione), planting authorisations, DOC/DOCG status and tax before you sign.
Tax & Regulation
Italy's flat tax is €100k, €200k or €300k a year depending on when you moved. Cohort dates, family add-ons and the US foreign-tax-credit trap explained.
Hospitality
Buying a boutique hotel in Italy: licence transfer, classification, fire-safety certificate (CPI), staff who move with the business, asset vs share deal.
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