We find you a house in Italy.
You write what you want. We do the looking.
- What the repairs will cost, and whether they are needed at all
- Who still lives in the town, and how many have left
- Minutes to the sea, the doctor, the shops and the airport
- The seller's own advert, so you call them yourself
How it works
You write a couple of sentences
The house you want, in your own words. No filters, no list of towns: a view, a river, a village with a bar open in winter.
You get a page of your own
A link by email, within a day or two, with everything that already fits.
Houses appear on it as they are listed
Each one with the repair bill, the town and the distances. You swipe the photos, then ring the seller yourself.
One house, all the way through
A page of your own, with the link by email in a day or two. Houses appear on it as the Italian agents publish them. This is one of them, exactly as it stands today.
cheapitalianhouses.com/search/75801
24 photos
Roasio, Piemonte
€54,000 asking on the portal
The seller's advert, in English
The seller's own words in English, the Italian original one tap away, and every photo he put up.
The comune of Roasio
- People living here
- 2,192
- Over 65
- 27%
-8.7% between the 2011 and 2021 census
What it really costs
Needs work before you move in
- As it stands
- €54,000
- Fit to live in
- €55,000 – €56,200
- Settled in the first year
- €93,900 – €118,100
- Everything on this list
- €94,500 – €119,600
Damp€1,000 – €2,200
about 16-43 EUR per m2 over roughly 40 m2 of affected wall and ceiling surfaces, plus minor preparation
8 jobs are priced like this, each with the arithmetic behind it. Rooms and systems the seller kept out of the album, listed one by one.
Practicalities
- Supermarket
- 8 min drive
- Pharmacy
- 10 min drive
- Train station
- 18 min drive
- Hospital
- 33 min drive
- Airport
- 72 min drive
13 places timed by car from the door.
A real house, free and open to anyone. It is the page a subscriber gets.
Every house that lands on your page carries the same.
People who use it
“Every house here carries a repair estimate: roof, wiring, windows, damp, what needs doing and what it costs. I lay brick for a living and those numbers are close. Two houses I liked needed more work than the asking price, and I learned that from my kitchen instead of driving to Italy to find out.”
What you find out on your own, and what you know here
What the repairs cost
A guess, until a builder walks through it
Roof, wiring, windows, damp, costed before you book a flight
Whether the village is alive
You find out on the second visit
How many live there, how many left between the last two censuses, how old they are
The everyday
An address and a map pin
Supermarket, doctor, hospital, station, motorway and airport, each with the drive
What you would actually do there
You imagine it from four photos
The lake, the beach, the ski lift, the hill towns and the wine country within reach, each one with a photo
What the search costs
Your evenings for months, or an agency commission of 2 to 4 per cent plus VAT when you buy
A subscription, free for the first week and stopped in one click
Seven days free. Then €29 a month, stop it in one click.
Describe your houseWhat it costs
The first 7 days are free
€29a month after that
You pay once the brief is sent, and the search runs from then on: new matches keep landing on your page for as long as you're looking. Stop it whenever you like, in one click, and nothing is charged again.
It also opens our members catalogue, the one that costs €4.99 a month on its own.
An agent with a hundred other clients takes about €1,800 on a €50,000 house, and still sends you a link to read yourself.
Change your mind about what you want at any point and write to me. I'll change the search.
Questions people ask
What happens after the free week?
On the eighth day the first €29 is taken, and then once a month for as long as you're looking. Stop it before that and nothing is charged at all. Stopping is one click in your billing page, no email to write, no notice to give.
Which sites do you watch?
More than seven Italian sites, Immobiliare.it and Casa.it among them: the two biggest, through which almost everything for sale passes, including the listings of small regional agencies. Idealista and Gate-away, the one aimed at foreign buyers, are in there too. A new ad is picked up within hours. Court auctions we leave out on purpose: that is a different kind of purchase with its own risks. And if a house is only in an agency window in the town or on a noticeboard in the square, no site has it, and neither do we.
Is this just a robot sending me links?
No. A program does the reading and the arithmetic: the translation, the repair estimate, the distances. The houses I choose myself, and I throw most of them out. A robot sends links. You get what is left after me.
How soon do I see the first houses?
Your page is set up within a day or two, with whatever already matches. After that houses appear as they are listed.
What if I want to change what I'm looking for?
Write to me and I'll change it. Most people do, once they've seen the first twenty houses and worked out what they actually care about.
What if nothing matches?
Then the budget or the region is the problem, and I'll tell you that plainly instead of sending you houses you don't want.
So, what should your house be?
Seven days free. Then €29 a month, stop it in one click.
Describe your house