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There was once a very important and self indulgent potato who had three daughters. One day his eldest daughter said that she had fallen in love with a fellow potato and wished her father's consent to marry him.
Mon, 03/22/2010 - 14:22
Interesting article in today's L'Unione Sarda. (Main newspaper in Sardinia).
Tue, 03/16/2010 - 12:24
I'm sure someone on here can help. Stuck with two clues for the local church charity Christmas quiz:What number is the following associated with?(1) Normal (F.) ( I don't think its normal body temperature in f.
Fri, 11/27/2009 - 09:45
Tue, 10/27/2009 - 13:53
As with most things in life there will be winners and losers. For example anyone buying outright at start of 1999 will have seen a currency gain in sterling terms of 38%. (start 2000 +57%).
Fri, 10/09/2009 - 06:54
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Is this an immobilliare website or a "property finder" website?
Adriatica, think this is because the sound channel in Italy is on a different frequency from that in the UK. (Certainly was with analogue). With newer tv's the frequency can be changed from the menu settings. Gabrielledi, if you want to be absolutely sure I'd phone up lg's technical help desk. I'd hate you to take over for nothing. However, virtually all new brands of tv will now work in Italy. Also, when moving its best to have the tv in an upright position. This puts less pressure on the screen.
Should work absolutely fine.
To have them professionally sealed and polished (by machine) costs around €15 per square metre where we are (Sardinia). You can probably negotiate a discount for such a large area but its never going to be cheap.
Good advice from Ram again. Also there is normally a time limit on when the works have to be started otherwise permission has to be reapplied for.
As first steps, in the UK try Barclays (Woolwich). In Italy try Banca per la Casa (Unicredito). Maximum mortgages in both cases are likely to be around 70% loan to value.
Its also worth noting that German and Swiss schools have a two week half term break. I think its the last week in September, first week in October this year but not absolutely sure. We see a lot of Swiss in Sardinia at that time.
Another site that seems to be used on the continent is www.homelidays.com
Outside Italy, the biggest rental market for Italian properties is Germany and Switzerland. If you have a web site then I would say thats its important to have a german language translation. In my opinion, however, its better to link up with an Italian agent. Commissions may be around 15% but a good agent will take care of handovers, cleaning etc. We rent out our house in July and August. In eight years using a local agent we have only ever had two vacant weeks and this was really down to a misunderstanding. In all that time we have never rented to anyone from the UK (and in fact have seen few enquires). Its been mostly Italians who tend to book in January and February but the continentals also tend to book fairly early as well. If you are focussing solely on the UK market, I think you could be really missing out. Especially with the current £-€ exchange rate which makes Italy much more expensive for anyone based in the UK compared to two years ago.
What a nightmare. Just been reading some of the posts on in calabria.