Still looking to do what we did and buy an Abruzzo property ? Despite the current economic situation, the Abruzzo property market is holding up and there are still buyers

All you have to do is look at the check-in queues for Ryanair flights to the UK from Pescara Airport to accept that this is still a hotspot destination.

And those queues grow every time Abruzzo’s mentioned on one of those relocation programmes on TV in the UK, or in the property section of one of the Sunday papers.

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This time last year, we’d signed the primary contract to buy our Abruzzo property. But not the final contract. So as the snow fell, with its promise of a white Christmas, we didn’t actually own anything.

Or rather we did – but in the wrong country, because the sale of our old home in England had fallen through two weeks before we left for Italy.

So as we watched the snow gently lay a wintry coat over one of the two long-derelict properties we’d half-bought in the equally long-derelict hamlet of Cinonni, just outside Casoli, we couldn’t help but wonder if we were making the worst mistake ever.

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So here we are, a couple of weeks before Christmas, with the roof of our new Abruzzo property half-tiled and the outside walls half-rendered; a chimney; the first fix of plumbing finished; and the first electrics fix about to start.

By the time the crew break for the holidays, the target is that all the tiling and rendering will be finished and our house will be painted. Plus one or two little extras…

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