Press review

Market, homes, mortgages.

We select the most useful news from the Italian specialist press for anyone buying, selling or investing in a home: the summary and our own analysis, in English.

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November 2026

Two-bedroom flats with a garden: more outdoor space from €60,000

Living comfort also means reducing noise pollution

October 2026

Versilia: Villa Ginori, home of the marquis to whom Puccini dedicated La Bohème, comes to market

Short-term lets: a sector worth €51.7 billion, with spin-off activity of over €40 billion

The Capston: two new luxury towers complete London's Embassy Gardens district

Short-term lets, tighter rules and a housing crisis: the market seeks a balance

Luxury property: the mountains weather climate change, with rising prices and year-round tourism

For one in two Italians, city living costs and rents are squeezing families

Housing: Italy needs 151,000 homes a year, with the greatest need in Rome and Milan

Housing: prices fall only in Milan, more purchases in the surrounding area, rents rising

Bare ownership: supply and prices rise, with Milan the most expensive

Short-term lets: an EU crackdown could reach the suburbs too, with 51 of 60 neighbourhoods under housing stress

Do you know what spite houses are? Examples in Italy and around the world

September 2026

Italy's most expensive residential streets are in Milan and Rome

Mortgages and new trends: more flexibility on repayments, rates and term

Property remains central to investment choices, with heirs to family businesses leading the way

Big cities: more and more residents are buying homes in the surrounding hinterland

Italy needs 840,000 homes for working people (and €235 billion of investment)

Property: since 2021, sale and leaseback in Italy has been worth over €1.3 billion

American buyers on the hunt for Italian castles

Housing: more homeowners among lower earners, from 54% to 61% in six years

Housing: interest rates and geopolitics freeze sales, with the second quarter at a standstill

Big cities: fewer families and more singles drive the housing market

Student rentals: a ‘premium’ tier emerges in Rome

August 2026

The most valuable villas are on the Amalfi Coast, in Sardinia and in Tuscany: 58 million for Vietri sul Mare

Seaside homes: Croatia is now more expensive than Italy

July 2026

Housing demand moves away from the big cities: sales in small towns up 42% in six years

Invimit Sgr invests €90 million to create 400 homes at capped rents

Turin property on the rise: sales and turnover above the ten-year average

June 2026

Mortgages slow, remortgaging collapses, default risk stays low

Luxury homes: Italy sees a boom in purchases from abroad

Milan: Aler's commercial properties to go to an Invimit fund for redevelopment

Ccl: ‘In Milan, five projects at a standstill. More than 400 homes hang in the balance’

Student rentals: online searches in Italy up 23% in May

Bologna: Tikehau invests in residential property in Navile

Holiday lets: August pushes prices up to €1,300 a week

May 2026

In Milan, choosing a home comes down to ‘cycling distance’

Prime property: major sales push prices up to €31,000 per square metre

Luxury homes: Milan challenges London, driven by tax policy and foreign demand

Choosing a mortgage? Now you can do it by chatting with AI

Engel & Völkers targets €100 million in revenue and 150 shops by 2030

Housing Plan: the housing emergency takes centre stage at the two-day REbuild event

April 2026

Housing demand: buyers are looking for flats between €100,000 and €200,000

Empty homes number 8 million. Owners deterred by rent arrears and uncertain repossession times

Today mortgages are increasingly taken out from home and by smartphone

March 2026

Milan: the Mi.To fund acquires a prestigious building in Città Studi for €25 million

Milan: Near invests over €1 billion in Cascina Merlata as work begins on UpTown's fourth phase

Harley & Dikkinson and UniAbita sign agreement with Coop Lombardia: members get a 4% reward on renovations

Ultra-luxury property grows in Lombardy

Sirreti arrives in Italy with four exclusive properties and plans a fund

Prime property: Rome climbs to 8th in Barnes's top ten (Milan 2nd)

February 2026

Saving a repossessed home is possible: 15 cases already resolved

October 2025

Mortgages: rates fall to 3.3% in September

August 2025

Euribor manipulation: the EU aims to avoid mortgages being recalculated

July 2025

ABI: lending to households and businesses grows again (0.9%), mortgage rates stable

January 2024

Residential property: prices rising across Europe

December 2023

40% of Europeans want to move home in the next two years

Short-term lets drive winter tourism

January 2023

A third of the super-rich's wealth is in property

November 2022

Luxury homes: global prices keep rising (+7.5%), with Dubai the most expensive city

August 2022

Rentals for young people in Europe: Berlin and Barcelona top the list. Prices in the top 10 cities

Holiday homes: sales boom, up 41%. Average price: €2,550 per sq m