A new study conducted by the Gate-away.com intelligence department has revealed where and what foreign buyers are willing to invest on in Italy by comparing the data collected from the enquiries received so far in 2009.
The report has highlighted that the interest of foreign buyers is still mainly for the most popular regions of Italy but that also less known regions are becoming ever more popular, attracting interest of overseas investors.
Tuscany is still the most wanted region with the 19.52% of the enquiries, followed by Le Marche (12.85%) and Liguria (11.12%). In a range between 6.35% and 6.95% there are Apulia, Abruzzo, Calabria, Lombardy and Piedmont. Sardinia and Umbria rank 9 and 10 with 5.76% and 4.49% respectively.
Despite Tuscany keeps leading the way we can see that the gap between Tuscany and the other region has been narrowing in the last few years, meaning that the interest in properties is spreading throughout the Italian territory. This is due mainly to low cost airlines that opened up to new areas of Italy, thus new property market, but it is also due to an increasing number of estate agents in those areas who started to market their properties to overseas buyers making the choice of properties in those regions wider, whereas before when a potential buyer wanted to invest in an unknown area of Italy found it very hard to spot any property availability and had to divert the interest in another, more popular, area.
The average asking price of the properties enquired is
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