House hunting in Southern Italy and I found a palace! - Galatina, Puglia 

So Larry . Are you happy with your move to Sicily . I’m in the states and home prices here are crazy. My son just bought a home yesterday for 300k and it’s only 1300 square feet.

@@jeffconley819 Very happy. I left the UK for several reasons: Brexit was one as I consider myself a European. Wanting a change/challenge was another. But also as rental prices were increasing in the UK and at my age I was never going to own a home or afford to rent by the looks of it. Moving doesn't solve all your problems - it just changes them. It's not perfect here, the bureaucracy is maddening, the heat unbearable sometimes. However, we have been able to afford to buy a house and have a comfortable lifestyle. If you are thinking of moving: do your research including several visits and try and find out how things work and wether the change in lifestyle would suit you.

Yes, please.

Same request.. Show us some farms with land

great idea!

My next few videos will be fully renovated houses 🙂

It costs 1500-2000 euro per square meter to renovate in Italy. Prepare for very unreliable contractors and shortage of skilled labor and extremely slow bureaucracy. You will require a permits and will have to hire architects and geometras by law for virtually any time of renovation/modification you want to do on your property. This is why these propertys are so cheap!

One can always dream! The right person who will make it a reality will have a stellar house on his/her hands.

Thanks for the support 🙏

I didn't watch the whole video. How much is ist?

Grazie!

These properties are often tied up with centuries of families making them very hard to sell. This is one of the last for sale in this town.

You won’t find many fireplaces in Salento, the weather really doesn’t call for it. These palazzi were fairly simple with fine furnishings.

Thank you! Yes, I’m a professional videographer 😃.

I did!!

One wish it was that easy ;P Not a 110% payback on a loan... way off! :) It's way more complicated and you won't get any money... you still need to spend your own when it comes to doing the paperwork to see if you even qualify, you also need to pay the professionals that are involved in that process, and if anything goes outside of the scope or you need to fix in order to comply with the qualification, that'd still on you and your own dime. Furthermore, many of those who had already started have seen this constantly moving target of a law change with the consequence that something that was possible earlier was no longer possible later and the owner of the house/apartment had to cover new expenses... not to mention that when the government changed, many jobs that were started had to stop midstream because the new government froze/canceled the ability of the companies that had started those works to leverage the amount of the work that had been approved earlier as a credito di imposta (ie. credit on taxes due). That's why many Italians, knowing what could happen (and in many cases did) wanted nothing to do with it. Very few 110% went ahead and finished successfully compared to those that failed, stopped or never started. Dealing with this kinds of things in Italy is like opening one can of worm after another. You could get those "one euro house" or something cheap to be restructured, but with the exponentially levitated costs of energy, building materials, labor, permits, plans, paperwork, and so on... these days it's not for the low budget or faint of heart to get involved with these stuff and Italian bureaucracy.

@@sfnyc thank you for the very realistic insights. I will certainly keep this in mind. But there is so much potential I just wish, for Italy’s sake, that the government could make things possible rather than less likely. Grazie mille.

Send me an email to marco@justdreamitaly.com 👍. I believe it still is.

Personally I’ve never been. It does look like a beautiful town and has the advantage of being close to Bari!

@@Justdreamitaly maybe would make a good video? 🤔

Yes

I mention the price at 5:35. €350k

sorry, I realized after watching several more that I didn't have the volume up loud enough to hear it. I had guessed up close to a million, that's amazing, what a place.

@@wayneevans5050 it’s all good! It really is a stunning property.