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The Best Place to Buy a House In Italy... Piedmont and Liguria

The Best Place to Buy a House In Italy... Piedmont and LiguriaThe Best Place to Buy a House In Italy... Piedmont and LiguriaThe Best Place to Buy a House In Italy... Piedmont and LiguriaThe Best Place to Buy a House In Italy... Piedmont and Liguria

We are House Finders. We find houses for sale in the BEAUTIFUL Regions of Piedmont and Liguria Italy

Palazzo for sale in Piedmont Italy
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What we do for you...

Our House Finding Services in a large nutshell...
 

  • We find houses and provide our clients with personal and carefully vetted Property Listings in the spectacular regions of Piedmont and Liguria Italy. Many are now calling it the best place to buy a house in Italy. 


  • Most people find it helpful to schedule a Zoom conference call (at the Contact/GetStarted page) to discuss, in person, our service details, the process details, and their particular criteria and situation. But you don’t have to do a conference call, you can sign up directly at our website Store.


  • Clients provide their criteria and budget of the type of house and location they are looking for.


  • We conduct extensive online research to find properties that meet your criteria. We scour the market for listings – the internet, agencies, agents, town postings (there are nearly 100,000 listings in Piedmont alone), and we keep a database of all types of properties that we feel are desirable in some fashion, of good value, and in good locations. Basically, we weed out the properties and locations that we find undesirable based on our extensive knowledge of conditions and locations in Piedmont and Liguria.


  • We send a weekly spreadsheet of current listings that match your criteria, over the 3- month period we usually send between 80-120 listings. 


  • While some clients do buy sight unseen, most clients plan a trip to Italy and they provide a list of Properties of Interest that they want to see while in Italy.


  • If a client has 12 Properties of Interest, chances are that there are 12 separate sales agents who represent those properties. There aren’t really buy-side agents here in Italy – agents who show their clients listings from all sources – at least not in the same capacity as you find in the U.S. and other countries. Italian agents are sales agents and they represent the Seller, only showing Buyers the listings that they represent.


  • We liaise with the Italian Sales Agents to set up Property Viewings of your Properties of Interest. We handle the logistics, schedules, maps, coordinates, etc., always introducing the client to the sales agents who represent those properties.


  • Should a client find a property they want to buy, they can engage us for further counsel on and expert guidance through the intricate Buying Process – from offer to deed signing. More on this at our House Buying Services.


  • The House Finding Services can be put on hold at any time for any length of time.


Our service is tailored to the needs of each client and there is so much more that we do for our clients throughout the process which we explain in great detail to anyone who contacts us about our services.


More Info / Background on our House Finding Services:


The good news!  Houses are insanely affordable in this beautiful, undiscovered, undeveloped region of Piedmont in Northern Italy. We purchased our 6,000 sqft farmhouse with two cantinas (underground wine cellars - ours are cavernous), barns, and eight acres of land for under $190,000. For the median home price in a city like Denver, you could buy here a house beyond your wildest dreams. We know where they are!!!  


We are English/Italian speaking Americans who moved to Piedmont several years ago. We specialize in finding houses in the stunningly beautiful region of Monferrato, an undeveloped, undiscovered Unesco World Heritage paradise - meaning the area is largely off-limits to industrial and commercial development. 


We have more than five years of experience representing foreign clients from any country  (foreign to Italy) who are looking to buy in this amazing region. While we can find houses of any style and period, we specialize in finding traditional and typically Italian, pre-1920's properties, of stone and/or wood structure -- apartment, townhouse, farmhouse, cascina, villa, country house, or palazzo -- with original elements either preserved or able to be restored. 


Having someone who can be your representative here, on the ground in Italy, can save you thousands of dollars in hard costs as well as hundreds of hours of your precious time (=money). Let us be that representative for you . With our House Finders Service, we are your Personal Real Estate Concierge.


We are not real estate agents -- but since there are no Buyer's Agents in Italy, only sales agents, we fill the gap as the Buyer's representative. We have relationships with sales agents throughout  the Piemonte and Liguria regions,. We know the cities, we know the towns, and most importantly, we can recommend the best areas in which to live and the areas to avoid. We are here to make it much easier for our clients to find a house to buy in Italy, to cut through the clutter, to eliminate 100% of the wasted time, money, and energy.

How we can save you thousands of $$$$..... Many thousands of $$$$

The cost of our invaluable House Finding Service is less than the cost of one trip to Italy!

See our Rate Sheet.


How will we save you that much and more? We are here, on the ground for you in Italy to:


  • Cut down on the number of trips you need  to make to Italy. We are here, on the ground, to do the fieldwork, the research and most importantly we know the desirable towns and villages and areas and we can steer you clear of undesirable locations. This will save you in airline, accommodation, and other travel costs. We made 12 trips and spent $30,000 when we were looking. We can help you do it in one trip. Some clients even buy sight unseen.


  • Wade through and wrangle the thousands of real estate agency and online listings to provide your Personalized Proprty list of houses that meet your criteria. Saving you hundreds of hours of time and thousands in travel costs.


  • Recommend only towns or locales that we have vetted and that we would want to live in or near. These include:  hilltop towns, locations with a view, locales that retain some classic Italian architecture, classic centros, tiled roofs, stone buildings. Locales that are not overrun with new buildings or commercial centers.


  • Find and track properties that are for sale privately, that are not listed online. This could save you 3-5% on the price of a house. 


  • Do on-the-ground reconnaissance and fieldwork, including property visits to obtain additional photos and videos, provide crucial details of neighborhoods and location. Saving you a trip = saving you time and money.


  • Set up and manage super coordinated Property Viewings with Sales Agents for your visit(s) to Italy, to view only the properties you are interested in. Saving time and money.


  • For information on how we can save you thousands during the House Buying Process, check out our House Buying Services.


Have questions or ready to start house hunting? Get started below.

Our house finding services include

  • A meticulously curated criteria list of the types of properties, attributes, locales, neighborhoods, and environments you are looking for. We will work closely with you to create and manage this "criteria list" as your needs, desires, wishes, and nice-to-haves change throughout the process.


  • A detailed and continuously managed "Personal Properties List". This is your exclusive database of available properties based on your "criteria list" as above. We scour the real estate market and the online listings (many in Italian language only), the posted and not yet posted listings of local agents, as well as the "for sale by owner" properties that are never listed with agents or online. Our goal is that no trip here will be wasted, no time or money will be poorly spent. We comb the listings, we know the agents, we know the market. 


  • Regular correspondence with you covering all details and developments in the House Finding process. 

  • Regular correspondence on our client's behalf with the local and regional real estate agents including specific property inquiries, additional photo requests, translation, etc. 


  • Plan, arrange, and coordinate -- in conjunction with the respective sales agents -- Property Viewings of your Properties of Interest. Property Viewing schedules take us about a month of pre-planning. But when you are here in Italy, our detailed schedule and daily property location coordinates make your property viewings a breeze.. 


  • Our personal time and energy commitment to you to help you find your Italian dream home!

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Why You Need A House Finder In Italy

In order to save money, time, stress and frustration when you are looking for a house to buy,

In summary,


Listed below are some of the biggest obstacles American and other Foreign buyers face and it is these obstacles that we tackle and solve for you through our Personalized House Finding Service:


  • There are no "Buyer's Agents" in Italy. In order to see listings in a particular area, you have to contact all of the separate Seller's Agents who represent each of those listings.  As such, you could spend a lot of time from afar trying to contact, work with, track listings, and juggle schedules of a dozen or more different Seller's Agents. Believe us, this is the biggest obstacle to finding a house in Italy!


  • There are no centralized online sources in Italy for real estate listings (akin to MLS or Zillow in the US) where you can find all of the real estate offerings for a given area.  When you want to research an area online, you have to scour all of the regional and local Italian real estate websites to find all of the properties available in that area. Researching and keeping up on this info is a huge time commitment.


  • Trying to determine the quality and details of a house from online real estate listings, from afar, is difficult. A listing may look good online but it may be next to an ugly building or neighborhood, or on a busy street corner, or in a locale, community, town, or city not at all to your liking.  


  • Listings on Italian real estate agent websites are not as detailed or helpful as you would expect. One of the most frustrating aspects is that listings often don't provide the  addresses or even the specific town locations because the agents don't want buyers or other agents to contact the owners directly. Location description examples such as "near Asti" or "in The Langhe region" are of little use when you are trying to determine exactly where the house is, what it is next to, what the town looks like, etc., etc.


  • Listing photos are often of poor quality -- dark, out of focus, and very often do not include all of the rooms. It is not uncommon for listings to have five photos of the bathroom and zero photos of the kitchen. The listing photos are often provided by the seller and as such, are the only photos the sales agent has. Having a representative here in Italy who can assess other aspects of the house, location, town, neighborhood, etc., can greatly minimize time wasted on requesting more info on houses that do not meet your criteria.


  • Not understanding the language can be a huge barrier as can performing online searches from faraway locations. Performing a Google search for listings, in English, from the United States, produces a very different (meager) set of results from performing a Google search in Italian from Italy.


  • Italian Real Estate agents are sales side agents and as such, only show you the properties that they represent. The do not show you houses, give you information or even answer questions on houses that other agents represent. And when you re in Italy, sales agents will want to show you many of the houses they represent, whether the house meets your criteria or not. We track all listings from all sources and will drill down to only those houses that meet your criteria, saving you countless hours of time and energy. 


  • We are here on the ground and can get more directly in touch with Agents, getting faster results with questions, additional information, appointments, documentation, etc. And if you cant be here to see the house for yourself, we can perform in-depth on-the-ground reconnaissance of properties which includes videos of interior, exterior, location, neighbors, town, etc. (See our Other Services below).


  • See our Rate Sheet for rates on all of our Services.

and we can help you after you find your italian dream home..

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