A bilingual advisor and a fixed-price service. You see exactly what you get, what it costs, and what happens next — no portals, no surprises.
Choose a level and book in two minutes. Most clients start with a call.
A 45-minute video call to understand your goals, budget and the right Sicilian micro-markets.
A full guided day visiting 3–5 hand-picked properties, with local context. Driver optional, quoted separately based on your itinerary.
End-to-end accompaniment from search to signing — negotiation, notary, legal and renovation. Priced as a fixed fee plus a percentage of the purchase price, quoted after our first call.
One point of contact — me. Discreet, unhurried, and entirely yours from the first call to the final signature.
A small, family-run office. To us you are a name and a story, never a lead in a funnel.
Notaries, lawyers, architects and surveyors I have worked with for years — already on your side.
I'm Giuseppe Rinaudo — for years I have worked with people from abroad, providing the services they need to live in this beautiful country.
Buying a home abroad is a defining step for a family: it shapes the present and the future of everyone involved. That's why I saw the need for a different kind of service — clear scopes, fixed fees, and a single point of contact who speaks your language and answers his own phone.
You should know what you're paying for before you pay it. That's the whole idea. “
Curiosities, news and honest guidance on buying — and living — in Sicily.
From codice fiscale to the compromesso — the real sequence of an Italian purchase, in plain English.
The Italian purchase is a team sport. Meet the professionals who quietly keep you safe.
Where I would buy if it were my own money — quieter, deeper, and still Sicilian to the bone.
A short, honest PDF on the traps that cost overseas buyers the most — from the codice fiscale to the compromesso. Fifteen years of hard-won lessons, in a fifteen-minute read.
My fee is a flat 3% commission — no hidden costs, no surprises. Remember that in Italy VAT ("IVA") at 22% applies where relevant, so it's worth planning for from day one.
A short note is enough. I reply personally, usually within two days.
Grazie — I'll reply personally, very soon.
The notaries, lawyers, architects and surveyors behind every purchase — selected and coordinated by me.
Most guides start with the property. The real process starts months earlier, with paperwork. Step one is your codice fiscale — an Italian tax code you will need before you can do almost anything, from opening a bank account to signing a preliminary contract.
Then comes the search, the offer, and the compromesso — the preliminary contract where a deposit changes hands and the deal becomes binding. Skip the due diligence here and you inherit someone else's problems: unpermitted works, unclear boundaries, an heir who never signed.
The final act is the rogito, signed before a notaio who, in Italy, represents the transaction itself rather than either side. Done right, it is calm and quick. Done alone, in a language you half understand, it is where dreams quietly go wrong. That gap is exactly what I am for.
An Italian purchase is a team sport, and knowing the players removes most of the fear. The notaio is the conductor: a public official who verifies title, registers the sale and collects the taxes. They are neutral by law — reassuring, and for a foreign buyer occasionally lonely.
The geometra checks that the house on paper matches the house in front of you — square metres, permits, cadastral plans. The avvocato steps in when something is unusual: an inheritance, a company sale, a cross-border tax question. An architetto matters the moment you think 'we will just renovate'.
My job is to assemble this team around you, translate between them, and make sure nobody's silence costs you money. You meet a single person; behind me stands a bench I have trusted for years.
Everyone arrives asking for Taormina, and Taormina is wonderful. But the Sicily I would buy with my own money is usually one valley over. Ortigia, the island-heart of Siracusa, trades sea-view drama for a life you can actually live year-round, steps from the market and the Duomo.
The Val di Noto — Noto, Modica, Scicli — is Baroque honey-stone and slow mornings, increasingly well connected and still sensibly priced. The slopes of Etna offer wine country with a view that changes the light every hour. And Pantelleria, for the brave, is black stone, capers and the most beautiful silence in the Mediterranean.
None of these are secrets, exactly. But each rewards someone who knows when to visit, what a fair price is, and which neighbour to ask. Come for the postcard; let me help you choose the place you will still love in February.
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