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Buying property in Calabria, with your eyes open.
Calabria is Italy at its cheapest: long coastlines, Tropea, one-euro towns and the 7% flat tax for retirees. The prices are genuinely low, but so is liquidity, and the gap between a bargain and a mistake is wide. This is a market where buyer-side caution earns its keep.
The Calabria-specific risks
- Very depopulated borghi: cheap houses where demand, services and resale are all thin.
- Abusi edilizi and unclear title: common in the south, and squarely the buyer's problem if missed.
- Seismic zone: a serious earthquake history that makes structural condition critical.
- Infrastructure and distance: longer travel, fewer services, and lettings that depend on a short season.
- Who you're dealing with: in any low-transparency market, an honest read on the seller and counterparty matters.
The cheap-coast and one-euro reality
The headline prices are real, and so are the catches: renovation commitments, weak resale and isolation. For the right buyer Calabria is extraordinary value; for the wrong one it's money you don't get back. We tell you which you'd be before you commit.
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