A property check is only as good as the people behind it. When a listing needs more than an experienced eye, we draw on a network of independent Italian professionals: surveyors, lawyers, notaries, geometri, architects and tax advisors, chosen for the job, never for a commission.
The reason buyers trust our read is that we have nothing to gain from any single outcome. That principle extends to everyone we bring in.
We take no commission, kickback or referral payment from any professional we introduce. The only person who pays us is you.
Professionals are engaged and paid by you, in your name. We coordinate and translate; we never sit between you and the people you're paying.
In Italy the notaio is an impartial public official, and the law gives the buyer the right to choose. We prepare the questions; the choice stays yours.
We only bring in independent local professionals we'd trust with our own money, matched to the property and the region, not a fixed panel on anyone's payroll.
We don't do the licensed work, and we don't pretend to. Our value is the hand-off: knowing what to check, getting the right professional to verify it, and turning their answer into a decision you can act on.
We read the listing, the documents and the people, and pinpoint exactly what needs verifying: the questions a foreign buyer wouldn't know to ask.
The right geometra, avvocato, notaio or surveyor, engaged by you, formally checks it under their own professional responsibility.
We turn their findings out of legalese into a clear proceed, caution or pause, with the next step spelled out.
We support foreign buyers across Italy, from a UK base run by Italian nationals. Where a property sits outside our own footprint, we bring in independent local professionals matched to that region, and explain their findings to you in clear English.
Your search, your documents and your decision stay private. We share details with a professional only when you ask us to involve them, and only what they need to do the job.
The Italian purchase touches several professions, each with a narrow, formal role. Here's who does what, and where we help you brief them so nothing is lost in translation.
The impartial public official who verifies title, drafts the deed (rogito) and registers the sale. Required by law, chosen by the buyer. We prepare the questions a foreign buyer wouldn't think to ask.
Checks the catasto, floor plans and planning compliance: whether the house on paper matches the house on the ground. The single most common source of nasty surprises for foreign buyers.
Brought in where a transaction needs legal protection: contract terms, inheritance chains, disputes, undivided ownership, or anything the title throws up that deserves a lawyer's read.
For renovation, restoration or change of use: feasibility, design, and the permissions an old Italian building will and won't allow before you fall in love with a plan that can't be built.
Condition, damp, roofs, structure and seismic questions on older stone homes, the things photographs hide and a survey reveals.
Prima casa vs second home, residency, rental taxation and cross-border exposure, so the tax position is understood before you sign, not discovered after.
Vetted contractors and on-site project management for renovation and restoration, coordinated by people who have actually run Italian builds, with realistic budgets and timelines.
Certified translation and interpreting where legal meaning matters, alongside the plain-English explanation of documents and messages we provide throughout.
Scalini Group coordinates and explains; we don't replace formal legal, notarial, cadastral, structural or tax advice, which is always carried out by the licensed professional you engage. We don't publish individual professionals' details: the right person is matched to your property and region, and introduced as part of your engagement.
Share the listing and tell us what you're trying to buy. We'll tell you which level of check fits, and which professionals, if any, it needs.