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The stone facade of Castello Maniace in Ortigia
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Everything I wish someone had handed me before I bought a home in Italy, written after doing it twice.

Property

Buying property in Italy

The process, the costs, and the mistakes to skip, from someone who has done it twice. Start with the free one and go further if you need to.

Start here, free

Buying Property in Italy: The Starter Guide

What no one tells you about buying a home in Italy as a foreigner. The ten-step roadmap, what it really costs, the seven mistakes I see foreign buyers make, and the questions to answer before you get on a plane. Yours when you join the list.

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Buying Property in Italy: The Complete Guide

The 270-page guide for foreign buyers

Finding, buying, renovating, and enjoying a home in Italy: every step of the process, the real costs behind our own renovation, and the mistakes we'd skip next time. Twenty-eight chapters, from whether you should do this at all to running an Airbnb when you have.

Coming soon
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The Complete Guide + Worksheets

Everything, plus the working documents

The Complete Guide plus all twelve worksheets: purchase and renovation budgets, viewing and due diligence checklists, timelines, and comparison scorecards, as a printable pack and as an Excel workbook with the formulas already built.

Coming soon
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Lightroom presets

The Sicily Collection

A woman in white beneath a limestone arch in Ortigia, edited with the Pietra presetA woman in white beneath a limestone arch in Ortigia, uneditedBeforeAfter

Ten presets, the ones I actually use on my own photographs of Sicily. Warm stone, honest water, nothing that turns a place into somewhere it is not.

One to one

Or talk it through with me

Anything written can only answer the questions everybody has. If yours is specific, this house, this offer, this quote that cannot possibly be right, book a private call instead. Thirty minutes for one focused question, or an hour for the bigger plan.