Land purchase. We have a small

I'm not too sure if this Entrate link is what you are after or valiid, but someone else here may be able to confirm it.

Many thanks Steve. It gives data for 2011 which is good enough as a general guide. Of course the offical valore is not necessarily the same as you would pay to buy the land.....The valore is broken down by the zoning (whether the particelle are categorized as bosco, pascolo etc etc) so the next step is to track down that information. 

buy from a church , is many expensive ,they must follow a generally more complicated procedure of private owners, and they are also convinced that their properties have high values - you must sign a compromise with them, and pay a deposit. They will have to submit the request to the diocesan Institute first, then if the institute agrees, to the signature of the Bishop. If in the ground, there are buildings of any kind, this sale must have, the approval of the Superintendent of Fine Arts, because there is a law in Italy, which ranks, all the real estate properties of the church, as assets of historical value - Yes, even the pigs' house, if it is of ecclesial property, is a cultural asset.Overcome all these barriers, there will be to check the existence of neighbors, agricultural entrepreneurs, mainly, who, if they want, can exclude the agrarian pre-emption.The agrarian pre-emption, works in this way - You and the Priest, make the purchase contract, you pay everything, the priest takes your money and is in place - In the 60 days, following the signature of the deed of sale, the neighbor decides that the land that you bought, declaring in the deed of sale for example 10.000-euro, even if it has, perhaps paid, 20.000- it interests him, then he sends you a nice letter, where he says, dear sir, I decided to take I am the land and, as established by the law, I return the 10,000 euro that you have declared in place.You are obliged, from the law to take 10,000 - and everything ends - clearly the priest can not give you back the 10,000 of difference, which he took, because they have the same color of his cassock ..

Firstly are you sure it is owned by the church?  Many visure show rights of Cathedral of Perugia for example, which are by now extinct.  Secondly when you say a ring - how much are you looking at - its much more expensive buying land if you need to  frazionare an existing particella, and sometimes not even possible as the catasto and comune arent keen on frations of under 5000mq.   BEar in mind that you will have 15% purchase tax on the price paid for the land.    What are the vincoli on the land, could it be buildable? and what are comunal and regial rules on bulding on agricultural land?  Finally - is the land for sale?  If not and you ask to buy it you will have to pay over the odds.  

Thanks modicasa, all good points. Clearly the next steps are to get a geometra to do a proper search to establish both title and allocation of the parcels we are interested in. We are not proposing to divide any parcels, so that is OK. But of course you are right; the minute we show interest the price will go up. As far as I can determine at the moment the parcels concerned are pascolo or agricultural land without existing buildings and no rights to build (of course we need to double check this) but if that is indeed the case, do you have a feel for what would be a reasonable price per hectare?  Thanks