Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Where On the outskirts of Scicli, a small Baroque town. Modica, a Unesco World Heritage Site, is a half-hour ...

Buying a 1 euro house in Italy has become a highly sought-after opportunity, and in 2025, Sicily remains one of the top regions offering this unique chance. The trend of purchasing 1 euro houses in ...

Local officials on southern Italy’s island of Sicily have put dozens of hilltop homes on the market for €1 ($A1.60). Yes, that translates to just over one ...

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Ever since the concept of one-euro Italian homes emerged a few years ago, there’s been a recognized pattern to these highly popular sell-offs of crumbling properties in charming but depopulated areas.

If you've ever dreamt of having your own place in the sun to retreat to, or rent out while you're not there for a bit of extra cash, then we have some good news. A town in on the Italian island of ...

An Italian town is selling homes for €1 each - or about 85p - in an effort to get people to move there. Bivona on the island of Sicily has seen its population fall to just 3,800 - roughly half as many ...

So many towns in Italy are now competing to offload old houses for less than the price of an espresso that some are trying to sweeten the deal further to lure buyers away from their rivals. The latest ...

More and more Italian towns are offering houses at bafflingly low prices to attract new residents. We round up where it’s happening and why Do you dream of swapping Britain’s gloom for a rural Italian ...

The Covid-19 pandemic may have irreversibly changed the world as we know it, but it seems there are some things that can still be counted on. And struggling towns in Italy selling off abandoned homes ...

Sambuca for a buck — this could be the destination real estate deal of 2019. Local officials on southern Italy’s island of Sicily have put dozens of hilltop homes on the market for €1. Yes, that ...