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Buying property in Sicily, with your eyes open.
Sicily is having a moment: Ortigia's baroque streets, the one-euro towns of the interior, the coast. It's also where some of the widest gaps sit between a beautiful listing and the reality on the ground, planning irregularities, inheritance tangles and renovation budgets that quietly double.
The Sicily-specific risks
- Abusi edilizi: unpermitted building work is common on older homes, and it becomes the buyer's problem.
- Inheritance and undivided ownership: a single house can have many heirs, all of whom must sign.
- Renovation reality: stone, damp, roofs and access, costed honestly rather than hopefully.
- Seasonality and livability: how a town actually lives off-season, not just in August.
The one-euro towns, honestly
The headlines are real, but the price is the cheapest part. The one-euro towns come with binding renovation commitments, deposits, deadlines and locations chosen for depopulation, not lifestyle. They can be wonderful for the right buyer and a money pit for the wrong one. We tell you which you'd be.
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