Pre-purchase check · Sicilia
Buying property in Sicilia: the technical check before you sign
The buyer inherits the irregularities of whoever built. Checking them first means knowing what you are buying — and what it will cost to put right.
- Dove
- Sicilia ()
- Ente
- Comune competente per territorio
- Primo passo
- Support up to completion
The notary will complete the sale even if the building does not match the approved project: they check ownership, not the state of the works. Discrepancies nobody declared become your problem after completion — when you let the property, when you resell it, or with the first application you file.
When you need it
- Before the preliminary contract, while the price is still negotiable
- When the bank asks for documents the seller does not have
- For country houses, where extensions are often unauthorised
- If the property will be let as a holiday rental
- In an inheritance, before deciding whether to sell or renovate
When you don't
Worth saying, because people often pay for an application that was never required.
- For a recent building with complete documentation and a valid certificate of habitability
- If you are buying land only, with no buildings on it
- If a recent technical survey exists and nothing has been built since
What you need to have
- Land registry extract and cadastral plan — I retrieve these myself
- The building permit for the property, if the seller has it
- The preliminary contract or offer, if already signed
- Access to the property for the inspection
Missing documents are retrieved from the archives: that is the real work, and what determines the outcome.
How I work
Pre-purchase check
Inspection, comparison between the building file, the land registry and the actual state, and a report with a straight answer: what is regular, what is not, and what it takes to fix it.
Check and regularisation
If discrepancies emerge: amnesty application, cadastral update, certificate of habitability. One point of contact for the whole process.
Support up to completion
Liaison with the notary, the estate agent and the bank so that the technical side is complete at signing.
The times shown are mine, from receipt of the documents. The authorities' times come on top and are not in my hands.
A real case
A home bought to let
A property already used as a holiday rental, without a certificate of habitability. The check showed the documents existed but were split across three archives; after the cadastral update, the filing was made. The hard part was not technical: it was establishing which documents actually existed.
Tell me what you need
I reply personally. If you prefer a call, tell me when to ring you.
Application to be filed with: Comune competente per territorio. La pratica è firmata direttamente dallo Studio.