Advice on buying a house that's not for sale

Submitted by piechart on

We've been looking for a house in the Aosta Valley for some time haven't yet found the right house on the market through the normal agencies. So we have started looking at rustici not on the market instead and think we have found what would be perfect.

The problem is how best to approach the owners to see if they are interested. Our Italian is still pretty basic which makes the conversation hard. Has anyone got any advice? We have thought of writing letters or perhaps engaging a geometra to make the approach. Are these good ways or will they tend to put sellers off?

Agibilita

The local comune recently started a purge on stranieri who had not got an 'agibilita' for their property. Large fines were being dished out so we started to get organised. First our geometra sent a technico round with a view to producing the right document with regard to energy etc. He took a pretty cursory look round and has not been heard of since. Then another technico was lined up - a friend as it happens - and he gave me sample docs to produce - just a weeks work with scale drawings and pipe layouts etc... windows detailed in size.. radiators detailed in size.