Buying Property in Abruzzo
How to lose friends and influence nobody…
Recommending an estate agent is as perilous as recommending a doctor, a lawyer or a good school for your kid. The one who showed us round a pile of rubble in the middle of a field miles from anywhere and assured us it just needed 'a bit of work' will be the same agent who finds you the home of your dreams at a giveaway price; the one who struck us as a scam artist we wouldn't buy a paperclip from will be the same person you'd trust with your life savings and the key to your Mercedes. And vice versa.
Abruzzo estate agents
During our 8-month safari looking at property for sale in Abruzzo, we dealt with about twenty agents. Good, bad and indifferent. In that respect, Abruzzo estate agents are the same as estate agents anywhere else in the world. You'll form your own opinion of who fits into which category. You'll also possibly become as irritated as us, when, after spending hours on rickety websites painstakingly compiling lists of properties we wanted to see, subsequently finding half of them had been long-sold and that our equally painstakingly-compiled itineraries were now just shredder fodder.
Honourable Exceptions (1)
In no particular order - and based entirely on our own highly-subjective experiences with them:
These are good, well-designed and easily-navigable sites, in English, with a big range of fairly-priced properties and run by nice people. Each of them found us somewhere we wanted to buy during our search of Abruzzo properties for sale. That all three ended in disappointment for us was outside their control, but - as it turned out - not such a bad thing after all…
Honourable Exceptions (2)
Remember this ? 
It's the property we did buy just outside the hamlet of Ascigno, near the old hilltop town of Casoli in the province of Chieti. Refresh your memory - and read about those three houses we didn't buy - in this previous blog. The house on the right of the picture will become our own home; the one on the left will be transformed into our four Abruzzo holiday rental villas.
We found this wonderful place thanks to AbruzzoProject - a Casoli-based agency run by our new great friend Gianmarco Poli and his delightful wife Martina. Once the actual rebuilding and restoration work has started on the property this Spring, you'll be hearing a lot more about Gianmarco and Martina and watching their designs actually taking shape.
But while we're thrilled our plans are coming together, we've realised, prompted by responses to our blogs, that many of you have exactly the same ambitions as us about finding Abruzzo properties for sale - and are suffering the same frustrations we did during our search.
Villasfor2 + AbruzzoProject = Happy Homeowners
You've asked how you can find suitable Abruzzo properties for sale without the endless hassle this can involve. Based on our experiences, it just makes sense to provide a one-stop shop - something we really could have done with during our limited stopovers in Abruzzo on our own property hunt - to cover every conceivable aspect of buying and restoring a property here. And by endorsing AbruzzoProject, we're putting our money where our mouth is, because these are the people we've bought from and are working with to redesign and rebuild our own home - and your future Abruzzo holiday rental villas !
Villasfor2 will give you an Abruzzo property hunting base. AbruzzoProject will help you find the permanent house or holiday home of your dreams - and then organise everything - and we mean everything - from the legalities through to the light switches. And all within your pre-agreed budget.
We're finalising our ideas at the moment, but in the meantime, if you've got any questions or comments about your own particular Abruzzo property search, contact us via the link at the bottom of the page.
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