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

The Best Place to Buy a House In Italy... PiedmontThe Best Place to Buy a House In Italy... Piedmont

We are House Finders. We find houses for sale in Piedmont Italy.

We ARE YOUR Personal REAL ESTATE CONCIERGE

What we do for you...

The good news!  Houses are insanely inexpensive 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 live in the stunningly beautiful region of Monferrato, an undeveloped, undiscovered Unesco World Heritage paradise (meaning the area is off-limits to industrial and commercial development). 


We have more than five years of experience representing American clients who are looking to buy in this amazing region. We specialize in a very specific type of house -- traditional and typically Italian, pre-1920's, of stone and/or wood structure, a farmhouse, villa, country house, or palazzo with original elements either preserved or able to be restored. If this is the type of Italian home you are looking for, read on.


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 -- there are no Buyer's Agents here in Italy. With our House Finders Service, we are your Personal Real Estate Concierge.


We are not real estate agents -- we are our clients' personal, local representative.  We have relationships with the agents in the Piemonte region, we know the cities, we know the towns, we can recommend the best areas to live in. We keep very close track of properties that are for sale through agents and also privately. 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.


Our House Finder 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 meticulously compiled and continuously managed "Personal Properties List". This is your exclusive list of available properties based on your "criteria list" as above. We scour the real estate market and the online listings (often in Italian 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 process. 


  • Regular correspondence with the local and regional real estate agents including specific property inquiries, additional photo requests, translation, facilitation of document requests, and exchange.


  • Plan, arrange, and coordinate, in conjunction with sales agents, Property Viewing Days of your properties of interest where you will view houses with agents.


  • Should you decide to buy, we help you through the buying process. We have been through this process dozens of times and know the specific requirements, time frames, and possible hurdles for foreign buyers in Italy. This process includes.


  1. All communications with and requirements of the Sales Agent and Notaio
  2. Bidding
  3. The sale contract
  4. Documentation requests, translation, submission
  5. Finding a notaio
  6. Deed Signing  


  • Recommendations on local resources and personnel -- communes,  notaios (responsible for the title search and clearance but who also possess the authority of a legal representative), architects, geometras (project contractors), plumbers, electricians, muratores ("stoneworker" but really a person who does anything related to stone, plaster, walls, and much more).


  • An introductory tour map of the highlights and different features of the Piedmont Region. The single most important factor in finding your dream house in Italy is finding the right location, the right neighborhood, the right environment.  When you come here we will point you to the best locales where you can experience the people and the place to tell if a house or neighborhood or the countryside, village or city is right for you! 


  • The 45-page detailed ebook of the steps for moving to and living in Italy including long-term visas, immigration requirements, the shipment of possessions, pets, resident cards, identification cards, the Permesso di Soggiorno (permission to stay in Italy granted by the Italian government), citizenship (if desired) and more.


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


We also offer the following one-off services, available to clients as well as to non-clients of our services above:

 

  • HFNI's on-the-ground, detailed reconnaissance of Properties Of Interest. This includes descriptions, photos, and videos of the house interior and exterior, grounds, buildings, setting, neighbors, neighborhood, local businesses, geographical location. 


  • Power of Attorney Services for representation and document signing and deed signing. We are here in Italy when you can't be.


  • Home Owners Insurance Quotes and Policies.


The cost of our invaluable House Finders Service (see our rate sheet) is less than the cost of one trip to Italy. And we can save you many trips! When we looked for then bought our house, we made twelve trips to Italy and spent more than $30,000 in airfare, travel, and accommodations.


>>> Read More about the Italian real estate market and the process of Buying A House in Italy

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

The cost of our invaluable House Finders Service 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:


  • Wade through and wrangle the hundreds of sales agents and thousands of real estate agency and online listings. Saving you thousands in accommodation, airline, and other travel costs.


  • Recommend only towns or comunes that we have vetted and that we would want to live in. The towns and locales that we would want to live in or near include:  hilltop towns, locales 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 preliminary visits obtaining additional photos and videos, providing crucial details of neighborhoods and location, liaising with myriad sales agents. Saving time and money.


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


  • Help with the bidding, negotiating and sale process by knowing the area, the comps, valuations, duration of listings, agents, etc., with the potential of saving a meaningful percentage on the price of the house.


  • Recommend vetted professionals to hire for the legal processes and post-sale plans, saving untold hours of search and frustration and avoiding situations where foreigners could be taken advantage of.


  • Guide you through the intricate and demanding steps of the Move to Italy process, if applicable, from initial visa to the coveted Permesso di Soggiorno -- we believe this exclusive service has incalculable value..

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Why You Need A House Finder In Italy

In order to save money when you buy a house in Italy.

A recap:


Listed below are some of the biggest obstacles American buyers face and it is these obstacles that we tackle and solve for you through our Private House Finder "Concierge" 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 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 local Italian real estate websites to find 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 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. They don't give addresses or even specific town locations because they don't want buyers to go to or contact the owners directly. The 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. 


  • Not understanding the language could 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 than performing a Google search in Italian from Italy...


  • Italian Real Estate agents will only show you the properties they represent. And they will want to show you all of their listings whether a house meets your criteria or not. This is a huge and frustrating time waster. No matter how specific you are, agents will send you listings and take you to see houses that you would never consider. 


  • Italian real estate agents are not as responsive as you might expect. Many agents do not speak English and some are very slow to respond to English language inquiries. When we were looking, several years ago, we sent 12 emails and made 6 overseas calls to one agent, never received a reply and the house is still for sale!

House Finders Northern Italy

Contact Us If You Are Looking To Buy A House In Piedmont Northern Italy

Book a one-hour video conference call with HFNI. We will discuss in detail our services, the type of house and location you are looking for and how to get started!

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Power of Attorney - english / italian speaking

Your agent on the ground in Italy

We provide Power of Attorney signature services for those times when  you can't or don't want to physically be here in Italy to sign documents related to the  buying, selling, or management of a house, including:


  • The Proposta - a document outlining the offer terms from both parties on the sale of a house  
  • The Compromesso - a legal binding agreement listing the terms on the sale of a house
  • Deeds of Sale
  • Contractor Service Agreements
  • Cost Estimates
  • Budgets


We can guide you through the myriad crucial steps you need to take to make sure your POA authorization is accepted by the Italian government.

Learn More

See our Rate Sheet. Or for more information on our Power Of Attorney Services in the Piedmont region, contact us below. References available upon request.

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House Finders Italy on You Tube

Watch our super-informative videos at our 

YouTube channel: 


  • Buying A House In Italy - Everything You Need To Know
  • How To Move to Italy: A Definitive Guide
  • A Walk-Through of Our House in Piedmont


For detailed information and rates on our House Finder Services for the Piedmont area, please visit our Contact/About Us page.


For detailed information and rates on our House Finder Services for the Piedmont area, please visit our Contact Us page

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