2457 Businesses become homes

I'm curious about old businesses being considered in Italy as possibilities for homes. I've seen the Monasteries advertised for possible agroturismo businesses.

There are people in the US who make old restaurants,firestations, markets or old warehouses into homes. Does this occur very often in Italy? Is there anyone out there who has done this?

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Building/Renovation

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 01/24/2006 - 20:34

[QUOTE=greatscott]I'm curious about old businesses being considered in Italy as possibilities for homes. I've seen the Monasteries advertised for possible agroturismo businesses.

There are people in the US who make old restaurants,firestations, markets or old warehouses into homes. Does this occur very often in Italy? Is there anyone out there who has done this?[/QUOTE]

It does occur in Italy too. You can do a "cambio di destinazione d'uso" of a property and the "frazionamento" (split in pieces). There are certain rules though and each council have its own set of rules that you can obtain at thier Ufficio Tecnico. If you consider doing that you should consult a geometra or similar that will tell you checking the rules if what you have in mind it’s possible.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 01/25/2006 - 12:27

Thanks for this valuable information Dave. You've been very helpful with your postings. Have you ever had a client who went through this process?

Best wishes,
Dee

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 01/25/2006 - 12:51

[QUOTE=greatscott]Thanks for this valuable information Dave. You've been very helpful with your postings. Have you ever had a client who went through this process?

Best wishes,
Dee[/QUOTE]

No non-italians interested in buying in Italy are not buying from an investing point of view. Better: their investing point of view is buy off-plan developments or buy to let.

People that do what you thought of doing are real estate traders; I know a few of them and I’m in contact with a training company that organize seminars about it.

You can take a two days seminar to gain the knowledge to do this. If there should be people interested I could easily ask to organize one session for English speakers, they already asked me if I thought there would be non-italians interested but I was not sure.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 01/25/2006 - 13:11

Good information Dave! Our interest is only in a home for ourselves...what can I say, we're weird. :)

We don't have any plans at this point, but our curiousity is based on "what if" we found an area we liked and the only thing available was an old warehouse or something. We just wanted to know if it's possible to get an ok to change it into a home. Buying in Italy is about location for us. Then the availablity of housing
comes next.

I don't know if it would be necessary to take a seminar for a single family home for ourselves.

Thanks for answering our questions!

Dee and John

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 01/25/2006 - 13:32

[QUOTE=greatscott]Good information Dave! Our interest is only in a home for ourselves...what can I say, we're weird. :)
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Cool. Make sure you can convert into a home whatever you find in you ideal location before you commit. For example I've seen barns converted in dwellings in let's say Abruzzo. I was recently checking for the conversion of a barn in a place in Lombardy but the local council have a set of rules that will allow only a conversion into a rural deposit, so not worth.

Then again if the government runs a "condono" every other day, you might get away in building a two bedroom house inside of the Coliseum...