In reply to A newbie all over again! by Annec
In reply to A newbie all over again! by Annec
They seemed to be digging up most of Belgium when I drove [slowly] through last month
613 The Home Straight
Hi,
We only joined the forum last week but already it has been very, very useful particularly the 'Notaio'. His speedy and friendly advice looks to have saved us about €3000.00 already.
We are travelling to Italy on Sunday, to Urbania (Pesaro e' Urbino) in Le Marche. On Wednesday we complete on the purchase of our 'Italian Dream'. It is a large property (some 500 sq. mtr and 2 acres of land) and has been re-designed into five apartments - we will live in one (the largest), while the other 4 will eventualy be vacation accommodation.
It has been a long haul. We first saw Ca' Pelliccione'(our house) in February 2004. Since then selling property in the UK has been a major activity and stress - the market here has collapsed as all you doing similar will no doubt know- but we have sold some - enough to allow us to complete - it leaves us morgaged to the hilt while we sit it out and wait to sell a further two properties here in the UK. Well thats been the nightmare bit - now back to the dream!
'Ca' Pelliccione' is in the commune of Peglio and 100 mtrs from the commune of Urbino boundry. It is the most beautiful place - Peglio is a medieval hilltop town/village and the whole aspect looks a little like 'the shire' in the Lord of the Rings, although we wouldn't want to push the 'english shire' comparison too far or indeed that with the Lord of the Rings, because it's better than that.
In the fifteen or so months since this all began we have visited many times and now have a robust set of friends in the immediate area - they have been a great comfort in our times of worry and need.
We used an American architect who has lived in the area for 5 years now to project manage all of the refurbishment works - as his Italian is now fluent he helped us with setting up bank accounts, translations and the like and through out the estate agent had been absolutely fabulous. Our Lawyers are John Howell and Co - and no problems with that.
Clearly, we are very excited now - we feel that we are on the home straight.
This forum is great - only disappointment is that we didn't find it earlier.
Teniamoci in contatto
Ian e' Sandra
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Hmm, we'll probably be drivign past on Sunday, or Saturday depending on th conditions on the Swiss motorways, err and the Belgian, French and Italian motorways come to think of it. At least Luxembourg is usually OK.
Now I've said that Luxembourg will be a problem, won't it?