1 Euro Houses

1 Euro Houses is a phenomenon that started in Italy in 2019. Today, the concept is emulated all over Europe as a success story. The reason for its success is its central goal: To repopulate the abandoned countryside by selling houses at symbolic prices.

The abandonment of the countryside happened gradually. The inhabitants simply moved to bigger cities and better work opportunities and with them economic growth.

The 1 euro houses project is among many initiatives that promote living in the countryside and incites individuals to invest in it. Wether you want to move to the dream countryside or invest in a local business, the initiative could be a great opportunity for you.

How does the initiative work, where can you find them and how can you buy them? In the articles below we try to answer to these questions. You will also find all the latest news on the subject.

Carrega Ligure – Alexandria – Piedmont

Posted on 02/12/201909/08/2021 by Maurizio

Carrega Ligure 1 Euro Houses? Not really but ... Opportunity YES! Carrega Ligure is a municipality in the province of Alexandria. Beginning in the late 1800s, many inhabitants of Carrega Ligure were forced to emigrate to the Americas, leaving some homes in their sad and inexorable decline. The "1 Euro Houses" project would have wanted to stop this degradation by allowing tho...

Nulvi – Sassari – Sardinia

Posted on 01/12/201909/08/2021 by Maurizio

The 1 Euro Houses Project in Nulvi continues successfully. Four properties are available. Nulvi, a village of about 3000 inhabitants in the province of Sassari, is a village that has been for centuries the main center of Anglona, a historical region of northern Sardinia. In the 1960s a big depopulation hit the village. The municipal administration, on the way to this new ...

Salemi – Trapani – Sicilia

Posted on 01/12/201904/05/2022 by Maurizio

Salemi was among the first to experiment with the 1 Euro Houses Project in Italy. Among the first proponents was also the ex-mayor Vittorio Sgarbi. The current municipal administration continues with the initiative, selling houses for 1 euro in the ancient village of the historic center. Getting to know Salemi The small Sicilian village is located in the heart of the Belic...

Cammarata – Agrigento – Sicilia

Posted on 19/05/201910/08/2021 by Maurizio

Cammarata is an ancient village in the center of Sicily, in the heart of the regional park of the Sicani Mountains and adheres to the project 1 Euro Houses. The historical center of the village, developed around the castle, has retained the urban characteristics of the medieval village. In recent decades the country has become depopulated and many houses were abandoned. In 2...

Montresta – Oristano – Sardinia

Posted on 19/05/201904/08/2021 by Maurizio

The municipality of Montresta also joins the Project "1 Euro Houses" Territory in Sardinia and Montresta Montresta is a small village of just above 400 inhabitants in Planargia, bordering Logudoro Turritano. Its town, near Bosa, is 40 km from Alghero, 80 from the capital of Oristano and less than half an hour drive from the beaches of Bosa Marina . The territory of Montre...

Caprarica di Lecce – Lecce – Puglia

Posted on 19/05/201910/08/2021 by Maurizio

Not only 1 Euro Houses There are currently no reports of homes available 1 Euro Houses in Salento? Yes, for 20 years. Recover the old town and fight the depopulation of the town of Caprarica di Lecce. This the goal of the municipality of Caprarica Salento — about 2 thousand and 400 inhabitants — in order to revitalize the historical center where the old buildings crumbling a...

Bivona – Agrigento – Sicily

Posted on 05/04/201903/09/2021 by Maurizio

The Municipality of Bivona in the province of Agrigento adheres to 1 Euro Houses project. With this initiative, the City Administration aims to repopulate the old town and recover the abandoned properties left to the neglect of time. The origin of Bivona dates back to 1160, at the time of the Arab-Norman domination. Between the 15th and 16th centuries it was one of the ma...

Montieri – Grosseto – Tuscany

Posted on 30/03/201905/01/2022 by Maurizio

Updated August 27, 2020 We are happy to publish some great news from the municipality of Montieri Project completed "1€ houses" in the municipality of Montieri "1€ houses in Montieri, at the price of an espresso" is the provocation of the municipal administration that proposes the sale of dilapidated and abandoned properties. 1€ houses is the refer...

Buying a house for 1 euro? How to do it and how much you will really spend

Posted on 30/03/201930/03/2019 by Maurizio

1 euro. It Is enough to buy out houses, often whole farmsteads, all over Italy. Inland, in many small villages, depopulated and yet so beautiful. Of Course, you need a little more than that in your pocket: these are ruins to renovate, sometimes rebuild from scratch. It is the project of the 1 Euro Houses (Case a 1 Euro), an idea brought up by some mayors to revive the territor...

Fabbriche di Vergemoli – Lucca – Tuscany

Posted on 28/03/201910/08/2021 by Maurizio

Fabbriche di Vergemoli Also the town of Fabbriche di Vergemoli has joined the project Case a 1 Euro (1 Euro Houses). Located in Upper Tuscany, with 779 inhabitants, Fabbriche di Vergemoli rises to 349 meters above sea level, in Val Turrite in the province of Lucca. The Municipality is ready to allow the purchase of houses for 1 Euro with the bureaucratic facilitations by the ...

Patrica – Frosinone – Lazio

Posted on 28/03/201910/08/2021 by Maurizio

There are currently no reports of homes available Patrica, a small village a few Kilometers From Frosinone, joins the project Case a 1 euro (1 Euro Houses). The Mayor, Lucio Fiordaliso, announced the Project Case a 1 Euro (1 Euro Houses) in order to revive the historical center of the small town and avoid depopulation. Currently, the municipality has surveyed and decid...

Mussomeli – Caltanissetta – Sicily

Posted on 28/03/201910/08/2021 by Maurizio

Supported by councilor Toti Negrelli, with the aim of recovering the historic center and give impetus to local production activities, even the municipality of Mussomeli, adheres to the 1 euro houses project,that is, the sale of old uninhabited houses of the historic center at the symbolic price of 1 euro. Mussomeli is located in Sicily,in the hilly area of the province of ...

1 Euro Houses is now also in Zungoli, a second birth for the “Great Beauty” of the villages that are likely to disappear – Irpiniaoggi.it

Posted on 27/03/201910/08/2021 by Maurizio

On the same wavelength of other small villages in Italy — from Sicily to Tuscany passing through Sardinia and Abruzzo — Zungoli also sells the houses of the old town at a symbolic price: only one euro. [...] Source: 1 Euro Houses is now also in Zungoli, a second birth for the "Great Beauty" of the villages that are likely to disappear - Irpiniaoggi.it

Cantiano – Pesaro Urbino – Marche

Posted on 27/03/201911/07/2022 by Maurizio

In the Marche region, in the province of Pesaro Urbino, the Municipality of Cantiano has also joined the "1 Euro Houses" initiative. Cantiano is a small village of medieval origins, inserted in a naturalistic and landscape context of great beauty, on the slopes of Monte Catria. The historic center of the village is full of stone-built houses, ancient churches and m...

1 Euro Houses in Sambuca — Città Nuova — Città Nuova

Posted on 10/03/201910/08/2021 by Maurizio

We are well beyond the 40000 emails, coming from different parts of the world. In recent months, they have been filling to the brim the portal of the municipal administration of Sambuca, a village in the province of Agrigento that in 2016 has been elected "Most beautiful village in Italy ". The reason is the initiative launched by the municipal administration that has [...] ...

Cnn talks about the 1 euro houses of Borgomezzavalle

Posted on 10/03/201910/08/2021 by Maurizio

Borgomezzavalle on the website of CNN USA, in the Travel section. The CNN reports the Italian initiatives against the depopulation of rural areas. The municipality of Valle Antrona is one of the localities mentioned in the report, together with the huts for sale for one euro. Also mentioned are the thousand-euro benefit for newborns, and the two-thousand benefit for those who...

Borgomezzavalle – Verbano Cusio Ossola – Piemonte

Posted on 10/03/201910/08/2021 by Maurizio

The municipality of Borgomezzavalle is also partecipating in the 1 Euro Houses Project. 1 Euro Houses are incentives to repopulate the country. An initiative of the municipality of Borgomezzavalle in the province of Verbania in Piedmont, a village that tastes of traditions and where you can breathe the spirit of community. They want to encourage people to move to repopulate ...

Houses in Italy are selling at starting bids of one euro

Posted on 10/03/201910/08/2021 by Maurizio

The Italian town of Sambuca faces an issue that neither of those urban cities has understood since their dawn: depopulation. Crowned the most beautiful Italian town of 2016, Sambuca is welcoming anyone willing to leave their bustling cities or familiar spaces for their shores if are willing to cough up at least €1 (or about $1.14) for an initial bid. The median home price...

Italian town puts dozens of homes on market for as little as €1

Posted on 10/03/201910/08/2021 by Maurizio

Officials in Sambuca, on Sicily, seek to revive depopulated town – but there’s a catch British house prices may be falling, but you would still be hard-pressed to find a cheaper property than those on sale in one Sicilian town, where homes are going for as little as €1. Dozens of properties have been put up for sale in Sambuca, a hilltop town with stunning views across the M...

Not a Joke: Here’s How to Buy a $1 House in Italy Right the F*ck Now

Posted on 10/03/201905/01/2022 by Maurizio

Remember last year when the country of Italy literally gave 100 castles away for free? Unfortunately, there’s been a sharp price increase, but the good news is you can now buy one of about 200 homes in the Italian town of Ollolai for about a dollar, TIME reports.To be fair, the homes actually cost 1 Euro, which is currently the equivalent of $1.25. Oh, also, if you do buy a ho...

Sambuca – Agrigento – Sicily

Posted on 18/01/201921/01/2022 by Maurizio

The municipality of Sambuca, in the province of Agrigento, adheres to the 1 Euro Houses Project. The village, surrounded by woods and hills, is part of the territory of Valle del Belice. Sambuca was among the first towns to promote and sponsor the 1 Euro Houses project, quickly becoming famous all over the world. So that after the first call ended successfully, relaunches wit...

Ollolai, the town of “one-euro houses”: an interview with the Mayor Efisio Arbau

Posted on 08/01/201909/08/2021 by Maurizio

The phone of the town hall has been ringing non-stop for days, thus is the interest of potential buyers from the five continents. Ollolai is a small town in the mountains of Barbagia. The project 'houses for sale for 1 Euro' is not only a strategy to curb depopulation: it is an invitation to a new way of life. We interviewed the Mayor Efisio Arbau Source: Ollolai, the town of ...

The news of the 1€ houses in Ollolai reaches Australia – Cronaca – L’unione Sarda.it

Posted on 16/12/201809/08/2021 by Maurizio

The singular initiative launched several months ago by the municipality of Ollolai, which consists in the purchase — with consequent renovation — of the old houses at the symbolic cost of 1 euro, makes its way to the other side of the world. 7 Sydney News, one of the most popular Australian television broadcasters has in fact aired a report on the matter. In a story, curat...

1€ houses in Sardinia 15 minutes from the sea: Here’s how to get them

Posted on 16/12/201813/09/2021 by Maurizio

Houses by the sea at the cost of only one euro? It might sound like fake news but it isn't. The project "1€ houses in the historical center" is in fact still underway in the village of #nulvi in Sardinia. As stated by the Councillor for Urban planning, Luigi Cuccureddu, the first 1€ property has already been assigned to a Swiss lady, Gisella Marie Susanne Cellina, who has al...

If you’ve ever dreamed of owning a home in Italy, here’s your chance. The report of the Australian TV on the 1€ houses in Ollolai

Posted on 09/12/201809/08/2021 by Maurizio

The news of the houses of Ollolai sold for 1 eurohas got to Asutralia. The project launched by the municipality, aimed at the recovery and enhancement of real estate located in the historic center of the town, has intrigued and amazed many journalists who have wanted to tell their audience about the initiative of a small and cozy Village of the Barbagia. Source: If you've ev...

Dutch are crazy for the “one-euro houses”: the new reality show in Ollolai – Shows – L’Unione Sarda.it

Posted on 09/12/201809/08/2021 by Maurizio

They signed the contracts with the municipal administration a month ago, in a few weeks they will land in Sardinia with the troupe: the Dutch TV Rtl liked the project of "1€ houses" so much that in the coming months will even shoot a reality show on the families of countrymen who chose to move to Ollolai. Shows - Learn more about L'Unione Sarda.it Source: Dutch are crazy fo...

Ollolai – Nuoro – Sardinia

Posted on 02/12/201822/12/2021 by Maurizio

The 1 euro houses arrive to Ollolai! The municipality of Ollolai in the province of Nuoro, the main center of the homonymous Ollolai Barbagia, willing to restore, restructure and reuse the building heritage, participates in the project case a 1 Euro (Houses for 1 Euro). «This is how it works – explains the mayor of Ollolai Efisio Arbau –: the owners of underutilized or unu...

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