According to the "City Costs Barometer", the annual ranking from Britain's Post Office Travel Money, the cheapest European cities to spend a weekend in are in Eastern Europe.
Every year, people invest millions of euros in improving their properties to increase the market value and then sell or rent them, trying to get as much profit as possible from the improvements made.
The question of how long houses and flats are on the market before they get sold can be answered by the Real Estate Market Report 2017 from the Italian Federation of Real Estate Agencies (Federazione Italiana Agenti Immobiliari Professionali or Fiaip), prepared jointly with Enea and I-Com.
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If you’re planning to rent out your property, the first thing you should do is to improve it with some changes to make it more attractive to the market.
From the south to the north of the Italian peninsula, houses that would otherwise be abandoned or destroyed are being sold by private individuals or by municipalities for the symbolic price of one euro.
Thousands of students from all around the world study in the Erasmus programme every year. It’s a great chance to get to know a new place like Italy, its culture and its people, but the big mistake everybody makes is sticking with the other international students rather than befriending the locals.
Buying a house is one of the most important decisions and probably the main investment in most people’s lives, and yet the same mistakes are often made again and again.
In recent years, real estate investment has once again become attractive to many investors attracted by lower prices and higher annual returns. But which are the best cities in Italy for property investors?
If you’re thinking about moving to Italy on a permanent basis, or even if you’re just staying for a few months, it’s pretty much obligatory to open a bank account for even the simplest of administrative tasks.