For people moving to small-town Italy · 7,896 comuni scored
Most people who chase a €1 house never buy one. Find the town where you actually would.
Answer six questions to compare towns by budget, household and local needs. Then use the Buyer's Kit to plan the paperwork in English.
Free to match, no account. Every €1 scheme checked against the comune's own notice. £49 one-off for the six documents.
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Towns scored and profiled
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Real listings, every one source-linked
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Trade firms nearby, listed on Pagine Gialle
Santo Stefano di Sessanio, Abruzzo. Photo © Ra Boe / Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
A sample match
Zungoli
Campania
- 76
- need
- 74
- liveable
- €13k
- homes from
Also needing people
Scored on population decline, median age, empty housing stock and the skills each comune says it is short of.
The Buyer's Kit
The six documents nobody hands you until it is too late.
Buying in Italy is a sequence, in Italian, with a document at every step. The people who know the sequence are paid by the sale. This is the sequence, written down.
- Offer letter, Italian and English
- Notary checklist
- Builder quote request and capitolato
- Codice fiscale and bank walkthrough
- All-in cost model, editable spreadsheet
- What will annoy you, and when
One price, one-off
£49
Shown in your currency at checkout. Any card, any country.
- — Private link within minutes of paying
- — Printable documents plus an editable spreadsheet
- — No account, no app, no subscription
How we score a town
Three numbers. We never average them.
One blended score would hide the thing you most need to know. So every town shows all three, side by side, and the tension between them is the point.
Need
Does the town need people?
Population decline, median age, empty stock and the skills the comune says it is short of. Real ISTAT figures, 2019–2025.
Liveability
Could you live there?
School, doctor, pharmacy, shop, broadband, and how far the station, hospital and airport are. A dying town with no doctor is not a bargain.
Capacity
Who will fix the house?
Local builders, electricians, plumbers, roofers and geometri registered to work the town — and which essentials are missing.
The part nobody prints
€1 is the headline.
Not the price.
Source-linked cards show the asking price and buying fees. Renovation is excluded unless an estimate is explicitly shown. Use the free calculator to plan the work before comparing a finished-house budget.
Want the whole sequence written down? The Buyer's Kit, £49 — offer letter, notary checklist, quote template, cost model.
Typical €1 townhouse, worked through
- Purchase price
- €1
- Comune renovation deposit
- €5,000
- Notary, registration, survey
- €4,000
- Translation and paperwork
- €2,000
- Structural and roof works
- €24,000
- Services, kitchen, bathroom
- €18,000
Realistic all-in
€53,001
Worked example using typical costs — not a quote. Your deposit is refunded on completing the works to schedule.
How it works
Matched to a town, then walked through the move.
- 01
Tell us how you actually live
Budget, children, work, how much building site you can tolerate. Ninety seconds, no account.
- 02
See where you are needed
We rank towns on two separate scores — how badly they need residents, and whether you could realistically live there. A dying town with no doctor is not a bargain.
- 03
Ask about your next step
Send Sam your property or town question. Any help, scope and cost are agreed individually before a paid commitment.
Where the need is real
High need, and still liveable
Photo · Laura Fortunato (Archila') · CC BY 2.5Avellino · Campania
Zungoli
Caves, castle, and a cheese with its own postcode
Photo · Luciano Bernardi · CC BY-SA 4.0Lucca · Toscana
Fabbriche di Vergemoli
Tuscany prices without the Tuscany premium
Photo · Pispisos · CC BY-SA 3.0Nuoro · Sardegna
Ollolai
Barbagia highlands, granite houses, long lives
Real listings, live sources
Real houses from €5,000 — every one source-linked
Photo · Pcastiglione99 · CC BY-SA 4.0Mussomeli · Sicilia
Judicial auction: apartment, via Santa Croce 42
Asking
€4,553
With buying fees
€11k
Photo · Davide Mauro · CC BY-SA 4.0Sambuca di Sicilia · Sicilia
Rustico, via Figuli 25
Asking
€5,000
With buying fees
€10k
Photo · Beatrice · CC BY 3.0Patrica · Lazio
Bilocale, via Beato Amedeo VIII
Asking
€5,000
With buying fees
€10k
The trades register
“But who is actually going to fix it?”
That is the question that stops people, and no listing site answers it. So we built the other half: local builders, electricians, plumbers, roofers and geometri register the towns they cover, and every town page tells you which trades are there — and which are missing.
Have a house in mind? Three written quotes from local builders, £79.
The trades register is new
No trades have joined the register yet.
We only list businesses that have signed up themselves, so an empty register is an unknown, not a no — it means nobody has joined yet, not that there is nobody to do the work.
Are you a builder, electrician or geometra?
Sei un'impresa, un elettricista o un geometra? Iscriviti, è gratis.
Join the register — freeRelocation concierge
The house is the easy part.
Tell Sam which part of your move you need help with. Any help, scope and cost are agreed individually before a paid commitment. Buying Support is not currently open for new bookings.
Request property help- Codice fiscale and Italian bank account
- Questions to ask an independent surveyor
- Preparing for the notary and translation
- Understanding builder quote requests
- Questions about registering residency
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