THE HINRE BLOG

Homes, people.
Stories that help you choose.

Some articles raise a question; others help you take the next step. Explore HINRE’s experiences, choose a topic and save what you would like to read again.

A floor plan, notes and photographs of homes on a table made from natural materials

QUESTIONS TO START WITH

An article.
Your direction.

Four themed collections in the archive. You can also browse all articles and save the ones you would like to return to.

AN ARTICLE TO START WITH

Buying a home with the next ten years in mind

Buying a house means making a decision in the present that, most likely, will continue to have consequences for many years. And yet, when we start a real estate search, it's natural...

Read the article ↗

HINRE READING

Find your next article.

56 articles · Page 5 of 7

Expert insights

About 8 min read

CADASTRAL VALUE

Whether buying or inheriting a home, it is important to know its cadastral value. This is the starting point for calculating certain taxes…

Read the article →

Rules and regulations

About 5 min read

MORTGAGE RENEGOTIATION 2023

Mortgage repayments too high? We look at when renegotiating a mortgage can help and how to do it. ECB President Christine Lagarde’s comments on a further interest rate increase in July…

Read the article →

Expert insights

About 3 min read

HOW A PROPERTY IS VALUED

Property valuations are often subjective. If we asked 20 estate agents to value the same property, we might receive 20 different estimates…

Read the article →

Stories

About 2 min read

MY HOME, MY HOME

More and more of us are looking for ways to improve our quality of life. For Italians in particular, the home has always been at the centre of…

Read the article →

Taxes

About 3 min read

TAXES ON SELLING

What taxes are payable when reselling a property? Generally, where a property was bought as an investment with resale already in mind…

Read the article →

Rules and regulations

About 3 min read

THE BUILDING AMNESTY

Italy’s building amnesties refer to three special laws from 1985, 1994 and 2003. They allowed certain unauthorised building works to be regularised…

Read the article →

Articles recovered from HINRE’s archive, with images preserved in the new website.

THE HINRE NEWSLETTER

News, when it is worth your time.

New properties and useful reading: we are preparing a concise digest with the topics you choose.

Discover the newsletter ↗

In preparation · Subscriptions are not yet open.

Looking for a starting point? →
Image credits

Space to explore. Time to choose.