1381 house in sardinia

We have just returned from sardinia having just puchased and moved in to our wonderfull property and would like to say a big thank you to everyone who has helped us on the way. David,Gillian and Francesco at Cometosardinia.com for organising everything, Ramon at Giambrone & Law for the legal side, and HIFX for the currency changes. Apart from the revolving door into the bank refusing to let me in until I had removed my glasses case from my pocket everything went very well and we are hoping for many a good trip over there in the future. The next learning curve is harvesting and pruning the olives, any tips would be much appreciated !!

Category
Property Sales/Rental Advice

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 09/20/2005 - 06:38

well done for your new purchase in sardinia! how did you find the whole process? maybe you can give us some more feedback as most of us are still in the process of buying a house in italy and the whole thing seems so daunting!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 09/26/2005 - 10:38

Well done Rick, me and my fiance are planning on buying in Sardinia in the next 2 years and would love to hear more. Whereabouts in the island did you go for? We would love to base ourselves in Alghero and eventually end up in Dorgali, hopefully once we have estblished ourselves and my other half has got his mountain leadership qualifications.

Any tips?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 09/26/2005 - 13:13

[QUOTE=Sardinian Girl]Well done Rick, me and my fiance are planning on buying in Sardinia in the next 2 years and would love to hear more. Whereabouts in the island did you go for? We would love to base ourselves in Alghero and eventually end up in Dorgali, hopefully once we have estblished ourselves and my other half has got his mountain leadership qualifications.

Any tips?[/QUOTE]
We have bought in Tresnuraghes, a small town near Bosa, about 20 miles south of Alghero, on the coast. Tis is a very pretty area, not too Touristy and still quite italian. If you would like more info about buying in the area I reccomend visiting Cometosardinia .co.uk where David or Gillian are most helpfull. Hope you enjoy your trips over, I think when you mention mountain leadership it sounds a bit energetic but interesting

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 09/26/2005 - 15:32

[QUOTE=rick]We have bought in Tresnuraghes, a small town near Bosa, about 20 miles south of Alghero, on the coast. Tis is a very pretty area, not too Touristy and still quite italian. If you would like more info about buying in the area I reccomend visiting Cometosardinia .co.uk where David or Gillian are most helpfull. Hope you enjoy your trips over, I think when you mention mountain leadership it sounds a bit energetic but interesting[/QUOTE]
Sorry web site is cometosardinia.com not .co.uk........... sorry

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 09/27/2005 - 04:33

Wecome Rick (And partner), I am based in Cagliari with my Sardinian fiancé. i'm sure you will love living here (Especially in the summer) :)

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 09/27/2005 - 08:30

[QUOTE=rick]We have bought in Tresnuraghes, a small town near Bosa, about 20 miles south of Alghero, on the coast. Tis is a very pretty area, not too Touristy and still quite italian. If you would like more info about buying in the area I reccomend visiting Cometosardinia .co.uk where David or Gillian are most helpfull. Hope you enjoy your trips over, I think when you mention mountain leadership it sounds a bit energetic but interesting[/QUOTE]

Thanks for the website!

My father is Sardinian so I have spent a lot of time visiting the island and now I am nearing my thirties feel that it is the place I would like to end up. My fiance loves it too and we also plan to get married there.

Unfortunately he is travelling in South America at the moment but as soon as he is back we will be doing everything we can to buy a property and find some work. He loves the mountains hence the reason he wants to become a mountain leader, but we will do anything to start off with.

Wired eyes - Are you from Britain? How did you find finding work? Cagliari is a lovely city - I bet you spend a lot of time at Poetto beach!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 09/27/2005 - 10:04

Hi SG,

Yes I am British, from London. I guess I am lucky in that I already had my own business (Website Design / Development and IT consultancy) setup in the Uk before I came over here and so I just brought all my clients with me.

I lost 1 or 2 which made things harder but now we (my sardinian fiancé and I) have a fairly good stream of Italian work coming in so things look brighter especially with our first child on the way.

I've never had to look for work here so don't really know how hard it is, I think if you have good italian and english you can probably do well as there is a need for people with good english in the tourist industry but it may well be seasonal work.

However the unemployment rate is high i've been told.

Good luck anyway.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 09/30/2005 - 10:41

Yes, it's going to be hard but we really love it there so we will have to have a lot of determination. Thanks for your help and good luck with the baby!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 10/01/2005 - 08:19

Congratulations we are booked with the Notaio for 20 October to sign the rogitto - we can't wait!

Best wishes

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 11/07/2005 - 12:10

Good choice just buying ourselves in the south of the island!!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 11/07/2005 - 12:16

[QUOTE]Good choice just buying ourselves in the south of the island!![/QUOTE]

Hi fellow English speaking person,

I live in Cagliari, been here for just over a year, where abouts are you buying, are you moving permanently or are you buying a holiday home?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 11/07/2005 - 12:24

Aha I just noted from your other post that your buying in Villasimius so I would guess not moving permanently unless you like the quiet life during the winter. :)

Very nice place during the summer, great beeches, if you ever come down to Cagliari look me up.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 11/08/2005 - 06:27

We just got back last week.The town itself was still busy even though all the hotels are closed for the season.Upside we had the beach to ourselves!