Hello, I am considering buying a house

Josie ,,, sometimes, realtors, have an interest in selling the restoration.... :) It would be interesting to have some information to find out whether a request for abilitation submitted to the municipality could be successful at the present time. 1> the seller, lives in the house? , And if he does not live, how old is the house uninhabited?2> there are active laces, electricity and drinking water,3> there is an input port and the windows that can be closed4> there is a way to get to the house, with a car5> there is a bathroom that can be used6> there is a kitchen with a sink to wash the dishes -Here are the minimum requirements for habitability - So much depends on the surveyor who submits the request to the municipality and certainly from the employees of the municipality

I can't give you a definitive answer but when we restored (and occupied) our first house we didn't receive our certificato di abitabilità until about 10 years afterwards. 

Some thinghs are changed in the last 10 years ..

Thank you for your reply

Thank you so much for taking the time to find this out for me. All the various requirements for purchasing a house in Italy can be quite daunting and a little stressful. So, thanks again.

Agibilità or Abitabilità is obligatory on new properties, ones that have been built recently or ones that have had significant restoration in the last few years.   It is not obligatory for unrestored old houses   If you buy and do restoration work then you will be obliged to release the certfication.    Obviously this assumes that you are buying a house (castasto as an A/) and not a garage /barn that someone has decided to live in,