The Property Evaluator

Maria Nørgaard is half Italian, half Danish. When she left Copenhagen for Florence in the late 1980s, her friends at home asked, "But where is Tuscany?" She went on to Verona on a Danish salary and never left. She talks about why Veneto friendships take longer than Tuscan ones, schools that make 12-year-olds recite Shakespeare, Lei versus tu, and her advice for anyone moving now.

Danish MP Steffen W. Frølund, who fought his own country's "tax from hell", and Italian-US tax adviser Paul Rausch on Italy's proposed exit tax: who it catches, why Americans would pay twice, and the three fixes that would make it bearable.

Claire Hearn (@msbritaly) left the Met Police and her own catering business for Salerno in 2018, with no family, no ties and no Italian. Eight years on, she talks friendships, stagnant wages, taxes and why the dream sells people short.

Dan Kidson left a 25-year management career, travelled the world looking for home, and found it in Grottole, a village of 2,000 in Basilicata.

Discover how Magic Towns Italy’s Property Evaluator uncovers hidden risks, local prices and true costs before you buy an Italian home.

Anna: Hi, Caroline. It’s so nice to see you again after more than a year. Caroline: Yes, it’s very nice to see you again, too. How have things been going? Anna: Everything’s good, thanks. Everything’s good. Wonderful. What about you? I mean, I’m interesting about what happened next, but wait, let’s do a recap before. So you grew up in New York, then at 24 you completely changed your life by moving to Italy. Caroline: Yeah. Anna: But the fun fact is how you actually ended up in Guardia, like how you discovered the town, so, I don’t wanna make any...

Luca: [00:00:00] Good morning. This week there is no usual episode. Something happened in our town and I wrote about it in a newsletter. I’m going to read it to you. That’s all there is Days before the death notices, the ubiquitous epigrafi that cover Italian town walls, the grapevine was already busy in its admirably efficient work. Morsels of information at first. Do you know that someone has been run over by a car? It was on that stretch that we all hate to cycle where the path meets the main road. By mid-morning, more detail had come in. It...

Discover Sara’s journey from Chicago to Milan, from studying Italian to building a new career, and why the city won her over.

Luca: [00:00:00] Hi Anna Anna: Hi, Luke. Luca: Hi. A quick quiz before we start the episode. Anna: Oh, no. Not again. Luca: Sorry. So if I told you that the town in Italy where house prices have risen the most over the past 10 years is 12 minutes from Lake Garda, would you believe me? Anna: Mm, I mean, not sure about Lake Garda specifically, but everyone says Italian property has been falling for a decade. Luca: And they are right, but that town is up 80%. So both of those things are true, and that’s what we’re talking about...

Tim Epstein shares why he moved to Lake Garda before Brexit, built a new life in Italy, and ultimately chose to leave the expat dream behind. As mentioned during the show, Tim is also selling his properrty in Toscolano Maderno! Listings are the links below. https://www.casa.it/immobili/53977401/ https://www.idealista.it/immobile/35689869/ https://www.immobiliare.it/annunci/129230480/