9390 required reading - PDF on property buying process

30 page .pdf covering the buying process and the costs involved in buying/owning a house in italy. I'd highly reccomend anyone considering a house purchase in Italy to give this a read.

[url]http://www.consnewyork.esteri.it/NR/rdonlyres/90DC112D-2FCC-45EC-921F-6814743CFC4B/0/Guida_immobiliare_Boschini.pdf[/url]

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 04/22/2008 - 12:49

[quote=pigro;88101]30 page .pdf covering the buying process and the costs involved in buying/owning a house in italy. I'd highly reccomend anyone considering a house purchase in Italy to give this a read.

[URL]http://www.consnewyork.esteri.it/NR/rdonlyres/90DC112D-2FCC-45EC-921F-6814743CFC4B/0/Guida_immobiliare_Boschini.pdf[/URL][/quote]

Thanks Homer, sorry Pigro. I think this could be useful to some of our guests.
Chris
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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 04/22/2008 - 13:07

I notice that this has been "stickied" by the mod's (that was quick!) ... It seemed pretty good stuff to me (or i wouldn't have posted it) but I'm no expert ... It would be good to get some feedback from the more clued up members here as to accuracy/relevance of the content before making it a sticky?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 04/22/2008 - 13:09

Well, I decided to stick it as when I read it, I felt it covered the basics; I will happily unstick it if proof reading by folks better qualified than me decide it's poop!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 04/23/2008 - 07:47

Not bad. It always worries me a bit when these things are published on the internet without any date, because tax rates and regulations are liable to change and there is no way of knowing if they are outdated. For example. this guide does not mention the fact that purchase tax is levied only on the [i]valore catastale[/i] of a house (since 2007), not the full value.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 04/23/2008 - 08:16

yep, the "sell by" date was my concern too :-(

Looks like the doc was published sometime in 2005 (I found another copy of it elsewhere with that date as part of the filename). Nonetheless, I think it serves as a good intro to the whole process (I was actually thinking that it may form the basis of a good wiki, which we could keep updated thereafter ...) and it's the kind of thing that, had i found it when I was buying, would have given me a good grounding from which to start asking specific questions of my agent/geometra/notary ...

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 04/23/2008 - 08:54

I'd be inclined to unstick this. I've only just read through it quickly and while most of it is pretty good I have come across a major, clanging error and one or two smaller ones. Also it was written by a US/Italian attorney who likes to stress every other paragraph how essential hiring a private attorney is! Nothing wrong with that but the purpose of the document is essentially to promote the lawyer's services - it wasn't written by the Consulate. It's also out of date and therefore inaccurate regarding the big changes that took place 2006 onwards. I wouldn't consider this an exhaustive, definitive guide.

Yes, good basis from which to start asking questions though.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 05/19/2008 - 17:31

This is my little contribution to this post.
The attached guide was published in march 2008 by the Associazione Sindacale Piccoli Proprietari Immobiliari.

All the best,
Massimo

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 05/19/2008 - 18:00

Well, I've "unstuck" this; it seems that there were a few 'clerical errors' that call it into question. Thanks to all for the review....& Pigro for posting; there's nothing like debate I guess.