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Buying property on the Italian Riviera, with your eyes open.
Liguria packs the Riviera, Portofino and the Cinque Terre into a narrow strip of coast and steep hillside. The light and the sea are unforgettable; the buying reality is vertical, tight and tourist-pressured, with a checklist all of its own.
The Liguria-specific risks
- Vertical access: terraced towns of steps and no cars, where parking is scarce and valuable.
- Tiny footprints: small apartments at high prices, where every metre and terrace claim must be verified.
- Slope stability: terracing, retaining walls and landslide risk that need a technical eye.
- Tourist pressure and short-let limits, sharpest in the Cinque Terre.
- Restoration in protected historic centres with tight rules.
The Cinque Terre reality
Postcard-perfect and almost entirely car-free, vertical and intensely touristed. For some buyers that's the dream; for others a stair-climb too far. We give you the practical picture, including how the place lives once the day-trippers leave.
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