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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Emma Magnus

‘I could never do this in London’: meet the UK buyers who bought €1 houses in Italy

Italy’s €1 home scheme is the stuff of dreams. The kind that start on a dull winter’s day in London, say, sparking a vision of a new life in the Italian sunshine, living in a house that costs less than an espresso.

Introduced in 2008, the scheme was intended to combat depopulation in rural towns, revitalising them with new inhabitants.

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