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The pandemic is raging, quarantine rules are changing by the day, and there’s still uncertainty over when we might vacation again, but one thing remains constant in the travel world: the €1 houses of Italy. This month, it’s the turn of another Sicilian town, Castiglione di Sicilia, to offer houses for the price of a coffee. On the slopes of Mount E...

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For the determined buyer with a strong vision and good home improvement skills, the fire sale of crumbling Italian houses for a little over a dollar each has been a gift. The rest of us, unable even to install a simple shelf, can only look on in envy. Until now. Several villages are now offering houses that are ready to move into. The price is a li...

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How many of us have been sitting at home, seen a dreamy picture of a foreign country, and started planning our life there? That'd be a lot. But how many of us have actually gone ahead, bought a property and planned that future life -- without setting foot in the location? Michael Barrett may just be a first. The Chicago native spent much of last ye...

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Italy’s house price index, which measures changes in the market price of residential properties, increased by 1.9 percent in 2020 compared to the year before, provisional figures from national statistics office Istat show. That’s the most the index has grown since Istat began tracking it in 2010. Since then, Italian house prices have fallen in seve...

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Moonstruck remains one of the most romantic, authentic NYC movies of all time, and also one of the most poignant films about the psychological fallout of losing a hand. It was filmed at real locations all around the city, with the fictitious restaurant the Grand Ticino shot in the West Village, Cammareri Bakery in Carroll Gardens, and the Castorini...

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When the mayor of a sleepy town in Italy announced it was selling houses that people can move into for less than the price of a used car, he thought he might get one or two offers. But after CNN Travel reported the deal aimed at reviving the fortunes of Biccari, a pretty community in Italy's southwestern Puglia whose population has dwindled to 2,00...

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Erin Lewis likes to describe herself as “American by blood, Italian by heart.” She felt called to Italy for many years before finally deciding to make the move six years ago. She settled in Florence, where she had already lived before. There, she rented an apartment; as time went by, she gravitated more and more towards the countryside, until she d...

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Sylvester Stallone is selling his lavish home in La Quinta, California, giving fans a chance to explore the property themselves in a digital tour. Photos and a video of the home were published by TopTenRealEstateDeals.com, highlighting the architecture itself as well as Stallone's distinctive decor choices. The property is going for $3.35 million....

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Italy’s $1 homes are back, and this time a collection of houses is up for grabs in the southern region of Molise, CNN reports. Castropignano, a village topped by a ruined medieval castle — located 140 miles southeast of Rome — is the latest community to offer up its abandoned buildings to newcomers. It follows in the steps of Salemi in Sicily and S...

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Greater demand for rural property has been widely reported in the UK this year, and recent comments from Italy-based estate agencies suggest the trend has also touched the land of Chianti Classico and Brunello di Montalcino. ‘I have seen many more buyers looking for properties, perhaps as many as four times more than the period before the [Covid-19...

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