Hi, Anybody with olive trees interested in putting all your lovely olives to good use? If you are unable to pick them yourselves, then please PM us as at the moment we are picking and pressing in the Southern Le Marche area.
I have taken the plunge and am buying my Italian property! It needs a new roof and I was wondering if anyone can recommend a good/reliable/reasonable!? builder/roofer in the Sarnano/Amandola area.
Hello! I am new to the online community but would just like to introduce myself and say what a fantastic opportunity the site offers to exchange ideas and air problems.
Thanks for your input Penny. I will try & follow up with the relevant DWP department back home and try and obtain the S1 and save ourselves a few hundred euros.
Thank you for your reply Penny. My partner will have a small gap in contributions. Do you know if any comprehensive healthcare cover is acceptable? Will this have to include dentist care and will we have to have this tranlated into Italian? Many thanks again
Congratulations on your recent offer, it all sounds terribly exciting and I wish you lots of luck. I have a possible contact for you for an estate agent but will need to make some enquiries,have lost the web address. She is a lovely lady half English/Italian and used to teach Italian at my local college. Will post you if I can find details.
Pianopiano, thanks for your input. You guessed it, it is an older house requiring a completely new roof and will require the seismic installations as well. Just looks like I will have to raid yet ANOTHER of my piggy banks.
Hi Tony and welcome to the forum. 10% buying costs seem to be about right if you are planning to become resident. As I understand it this should cover all fees including the estate agent, notary, purchase taxes etc. If you are not planning on taking up residency I think the figure is about 18% Agency fees appear to be usually 3% of the property cost plus the VAT (IVA) of 20% but I think the fees may be open to discussion (am sure I will be corrected on the above if this is not the case – some very knowledgeable folk posting on this forum). I am not sure how notary and solicitor fees are calculated, think of a figure and double it? I am looking to buy a property of a similar value and have been quoted notary cost of EU 6500 and solicitor’s cost EU 6500, both excluding the IVA. These appear ridiculously high to me. Good luck with your purchase!
Hi Very interesting queries which unfortunately I can't help you out with, still gathering information myself at the moment. Am very new to the forum but it struck me that it may be worthwhile for you to create your own new posting section for your questions since (am assuming here) I could imagine that your posting may not be read by those who have already dived into my postings? To do this you have to select 'create content' under the Community section and then select 'new post'. I'm sure this way you will receive maximum hit, so to speak, from all those extremely helpful Italy Magazine onliners. Wishing you all the best for your retirement in sunny Calabria, sounds lovely
The postings have been invaluable, grazie a tutti! It does all appear to be a little more involved than originally anticipated but who said life was straightforward. (Melbreak- thanks for the prompting. I did post a thank you to everyone yesterday at the bottom section of all the postings 'post new comment' but is seems to have disappeared down one of those big black holes? Bit of a forum virgin)
We've used Auto Europa (Sicily by Car), on a couple of occasions and found them to be excellent. A little more expensive but their prices were all inclusive. Not to be confused with Auto Europe, we ended up paying as much again for the car hire with them since we were scaremogered into taking out extra insurance at Treviso on pickup.
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Thanks for your input Penny. I will try & follow up with the relevant DWP department back home and try and obtain the S1 and save ourselves a few hundred euros.
Thank you for your reply Penny. My partner will have a small gap in contributions. Do you know if any comprehensive healthcare cover is acceptable? Will this have to include dentist care and will we have to have this tranlated into Italian? Many thanks again
We went out Olive picking yesterday! What excellent fun only came home after dark, we were absolutely shattered!!!
Congratulations on your recent offer, it all sounds terribly exciting and I wish you lots of luck. I have a possible contact for you for an estate agent but will need to make some enquiries,have lost the web address. She is a lovely lady half English/Italian and used to teach Italian at my local college. Will post you if I can find details.
Pianopiano, thanks for your input. You guessed it, it is an older house requiring a completely new roof and will require the seismic installations as well. Just looks like I will have to raid yet ANOTHER of my piggy banks.
Hi Tony and welcome to the forum. 10% buying costs seem to be about right if you are planning to become resident. As I understand it this should cover all fees including the estate agent, notary, purchase taxes etc. If you are not planning on taking up residency I think the figure is about 18% Agency fees appear to be usually 3% of the property cost plus the VAT (IVA) of 20% but I think the fees may be open to discussion (am sure I will be corrected on the above if this is not the case – some very knowledgeable folk posting on this forum
). I am not sure how notary and solicitor fees are calculated, think of a figure and double it? I am looking to buy a property of a similar value and have been quoted notary cost of EU 6500 and solicitor’s cost EU 6500, both excluding the IVA. These appear ridiculously high to me. Good luck with your purchase!
Hi Very interesting queries which unfortunately I can't help you out with, still gathering information myself at the moment. Am very new to the forum but it struck me that it may be worthwhile for you to create your own new posting section for your questions since (am assuming here) I could imagine that your posting may not be read by those who have already dived into my postings? To do this you have to select 'create content' under the Community section and then select 'new post'. I'm sure this way you will receive maximum hit, so to speak, from all those extremely helpful Italy Magazine onliners. Wishing you all the best for your retirement in sunny Calabria, sounds lovely
The postings have been invaluable, grazie a tutti! It does all appear to be a little more involved than originally anticipated but who said life was straightforward. (Melbreak- thanks for the prompting. I did post a thank you to everyone yesterday at the bottom section of all the postings 'post new comment' but is seems to have disappeared down one of those big black holes? Bit of a forum virgin)
We've used Auto Europa (Sicily by Car), on a couple of occasions and found them to be excellent. A little more expensive but their prices were all inclusive. Not to be confused with Auto Europe, we ended up paying as much again for the car hire with them since we were scaremogered into taking out extra insurance at Treviso on pickup.