Crisis can be overcome with the energetic rehabilitation of the houses

Legambiente: "Is it possible to activate 3 billion euro of investments and 120,000 jobs per year"

Rome - The crisis can be overcome by the eco-renovation of houses and buildings thanks to which, according to Legambiente "can be activated 3 billion euro of investments and 120.000 jobs per year". For this reason, the Italian environmental organization has proposed - during a conference organized together with AzzeroCo2 - "a new system of incentives for energy improvement that allows to halve fuel consumption in the condo buildings".

"In light of the current situation emerges," according to Legambiente, "the need for new policies that may trigger a widespread  upgrading of the energy efficiency in buildings". With an eye especially for apartment buildings, where live about 24 million people in Italy and where very often the energy consumption are higher than the already high national average, especially if built after the 50's. According to estimates by Istat and Cresme, exists more than one million buildings with more than five rooms in which there is a condominium management. And, unfortunately for those who live there, hopes to reduce spending on energy bills are very few, given that the existing mechanisms are ineffective and often impossible to implement".

The aim of Legambiente is an average reduction of 50% of the housing consumption, certified by skipping energy class; based on a simulation carried out on condos in Milan, Rome and Bari average return through incentives varies between 31 and 36%, there would be a benefit in the bill and in the comfort both winter and summer, in addition, depending on the intervention, there could be a reduction in heating bills by about 50% within a maximum of 11 years for an amount that varies between 800 and 1300 euro per year.

According to Legambiente is necessary to introduce a new system of incentives that may apply in particular to condominiums, which offers a real possibility of reducing energy expenditure for families and at the same time attack the bulk of the energy coming from the building. "The model to look at is that of the Green Deal introduced in the UK, which allows the creation of interventions at no cost to families to pay for themselves with the savings made in fuel consumption," says Vice-President Edward Zanchini. "To realize these projects in Italy, in our proposal, they would Esco (Energy Service Company, ed) and construction companies, which could see from this scenario, a way out of the crisis in the sector."

"The interventation spaces to make our buildings more energy efficient are very broad, as shown by all the studies known," added Beppe Gamba, President of AzzeroCO2. "The economic obstacles that today's families have to carry out operations of this type can be overcome, and also creating good jobs, with the widespread intervention of the Esco that invest in their own and recover the investments with the savings made in the bill. But why is this virtuous cycle can spread requires new tools and a guarantee fund for loans to businesses. We are confident that the new Parliament will be able to tackle these issues in a constructive way".

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The Italian real estate market crisis, merciless numbers

Translation of an interesting article from the Italian web based newspaper Nove da Firenze .

The figures released by FIAIP are really discouraging: in Italy in the period 2007-2012 real estate sales were down by as much as 40%. In the past year house prices also showed a decrease of 12% (25% if we compare the average prices of the previous year with those of 2008.).

And common clichés that keep the industry afloat we have thought in the past few years the only luxury properties, and this both in Italy and internationally.

According to the findings in the recent MEETIN - a real estate meeting in Naples, for example, this assumption seems confirmed in the Southern Italy.

Over the last five years, sales and construction of new buildings have declined by 40%, sales of larger apartments and luxury properties in the most prestigious neighborhoods of Naples (Posillipo, Vomero, Chiaia) has instead maintained.

The same goes for real estate on the Sorrento coast, who have not registered even the declines in sales prices.

Of the first opinions in contrast seem to come from the Northern Italy, and in particular from Milan.

According writes Joan Valsecchi on Immobiliare.it News, it seems that even the high end of the market - which had not previously been the least affected by the crisis - is starting to feel a bit 'hit: properties of prestige of Milan in fact, would arrive at the cost 20-25% less than it was five years ago.

And if we can not speak of a real crisis, however, would seem obvious signs of some slowdown in the luxury market.

It seems that at this time the only ones who can afford the expense of a certain kind - we speak of digits that can even exceed € 19,000 per square meter - are entrepreneurs belonging to sectors that are resisting more to the crisis, such as fashion or telephone for example, or the super-rich from Russia or the Arab states.

To confirm the trend, in some way, there are also data published on 6 March by Osservatorio Residenze Esclusive (Observatory of Exclusive Residences), sponsored by Tirelli & Partners, and for the second half of 2012 in the cities of Milan and Rome.

According to these data luxury properties are struggling to find buyers, and so stretch of the days of sale.

According Casa24Plus for example, in Milan, for homes with a value of more than € 7,000 per square meter, the average selling now would exceed 16 months (in 2010 were less than one year).

We wanted to explore the question also heard the opinion of Dimitri Corti, CEO of Lionard Exclusive Real Estate, a Pistoia (Tuscany) estate agency specializing in selling luxury real estate in Italy.

According to D. Corti there is not actually a real braking because the Italian sellers are basically willing to consider offers also much lower, while still allowing you to get to the final sale.

Confirms instead the fact that buyers come almost exclusively from countries such as Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Kazakhstan.

We are then told that Tuscany is by far one of the most sought after, not only in Italy but also in the whole Europe.

Real Estate, optimism back with the Web: digital relocation

The new web frontier of real estate market, the dedicated real estate search engine

According to a survey, the benefits in terms of efficiency of the use of the Web for real estate portals are characterized by rapidity in providing timely information to customers, the ability to keep up with the competition and meet the demands of the market with significant time savings and money.

 

The web marketing can very well replace the obsolete forms of traditional advertising, such as newspapers and magazines, which in addition to being inefficient, requiring large amounts of money.

From the point of view of the purchasers, not only are praised all the characteristics of a digital communication, but also the speed to be able to take advantage of an estate portal in order to submit their ad, to be viewed also from a wider range of customers and international at affordable prices.

 

With the increasingly widespread use of search portals property changes the relationship with the customer that easily with one click can search for the home of your dreams in all parts of the world.
 

The advertisements have all the necessary information accompanied by images and videos so as to provide all the details needed for a distance vision.

The popularity of smartphones, tablets and laptops has facilitated this type of interaction, and to guarantee the freedom and time savings potential customer.

 

An excellent example of real estate search engine comes from Italy with Cercacasa.

 

Cercacasa.it is the first professional portal for the promotion of the buildings designed and built by real estate professionals and also managed according to the logic social oriented. A portal opened to the potential of Web 2.0. Experience of more than 12,000 industry professionals get the most innovative solution for the management of its real estate reality and integration with fellow real estate agents located throughout the world, which will allow you to quickly find a property meets your needs.

 

The site was created under the auspices of Fiaip, Italian Federation of Professional Real Estate Agents, which has always worked to make more ethical and transparent real estate market.

Luxury villas and homes, sales increase in Italy

luxury house with pool

The luxury real estate market does not seem to have suffered from the crisis, indeed.

The analysis conducted by an indipendent observatory analyzed the sales of luxury real estate in Italy (here some examples of luxury homes and villas in Italy), recording an increase of 16% between 2011 and 2012.

You can buy real estate property and more throughout the boot and especially from abroad, particularly from Russia. Data that bode well for the industry in a time when other properties are still on the other hand if not in decline: Istat has photographed the real estate market in the same period that saw a decline in sales of 23.6%. Italy thus confirming land of beauty, able to attract foreign investors, attracted by the beauty of our country and the most exclusive houses.

The types of luxury homes in Italy ranging from ancient to modern, following the most beautiful routes in our country. The archaeological wonders, cultural and gastronomic traditions, natural beauty, ranging from the sea to the mountains, the reasons for living in Italy are many, especially for foreigners who have bought more prestigious properties between 2011 and 2012. The figure that emerges from the research speaks of buyers in the United States increased (+9%) and England (+3%). The most significant of these is Russia, which is an increase in double figures with a + 12% of searches on the portal, in particular from Moscow (+55%) and St. Petersburg (+30%).

Different types of luxury homes affecting buyers from Russia are wondering designer villas, while the British confirmed the charm of the Tuscan countryside (Chiantishire) or the cities of art, primarily Florence, Venice and Rome, while the U.S. recall Made in Italy remains the strongest.

Even the location vary according to the groups of buyers with a preference of Russian classics of Italian luxury in places like Lake Como, the fashion district of Milan and Sardinia, while the British link historic houses and castles of the Tuscan hills, the masserie or historic buildings in Venice, followed by the Americans who alternated historic farmhouses to villas and housing design.

Always the Russians are also distinguished by the greater purchasing power for luxury homes ranging from 10 thousand to 15 thousand euro per square meter, exceeding 15 thousand when it comes to villas in Costa Smeralda: the lower the average expenditure of British and American between the 8 thousand and 12 thousand euro per square meter.
 

Black numbers for housing market. Crisis!

Crisis make me cry

ITALY - Black for the housing market crisis, which also affects a small part of the demand for mortgages.

A enderlo known is the Fiaip Federation (estate agents referring to cercacasa.it) which publishes the data on the year 2012, emphasizing a reduction of 11, 98% of real estate prices and a reduction in the number of sales of 17.22% compared to 2011.

The effects of the economic crisis are also found from the analysis of a larger period, ie the five-year period 2008-2013 (according to the experts, the period of real economic crisis), where the only housing prices have fallen by 20-25 %, even the sales have been reduced by 40%. Compared to 2012, net also decrease the prices of rentals, from -5.6% of the locations for housing to -12.5% ​​of the leases for commercial use.

Fiaip appears slightly confident hope of a slow recovery in the second half of 2013 will persist if the conditions of political and economic stability. The real estate market of non-residential showed a decrease in the price of 14.89% for the shops, 15.27% for offices and of 15.04% for construction, with a decrease in sales which amounted on average around 20%.

43% of the trading is done with the use of mortgages and loans, but with a slight reduction in requests and disbursements compared to 2011. Among the cities, the gold medal for the decline in residential property prices in Perugia, the Umbrian capital is recording a peak of -17.13%; reverse speech to Taranto where property prices have fallen by "only" 2 %.

Italy - Black year for the housing market, house prices collapse: Rome -15%

Italy - Black year for the housing market

Fiaip: in contrast Taranto. For the first half of 2013 the market still

Rome, February 15 (TMNews) - Black Year, 2012, for the housing market: the sales fell by 17.2% and housing prices have fallen by 11, 9%. To provide the data is Fiaip (Italian Federation of Professional Real Estate Agents) which released the report on the progress of urban real estate market scenarios for 2012 and 2013.The 2012 "closes with a market stagnation in a context in which the indicators marked a decline in real estate prices in the residential and commercial real estate market," said the Federation. For the trades "there is an average trend of falling prices of '11.98% for houses, while falls the number of sales that amounted to -17.22% in 2012." Sharp decline, then the price for leases for housing and commercial leases -5.60% -12.5% ​​compared to 2011.

House prices fell throughout Italy in 2012 and even in big cities, with record declines in Perugia (-17.1%) but also in Rome (-15%) and Milan (-14.2%). From the 2012 report Fiaip there was a strong general decrease in all cities, "with the exception of Taranto who photographs a reality in contrast." The remaining reductions ranging between -5.75% -14.36% of Avellino and Palermo, passing between -8% of Florence - 8.43 of Venice, -11.11% of Salerno - 12% Genoa - 12.83 Udine, -12.86 of Siena - 13% of Naples - Bologna 13.74 - 13.75 Torino - 14% Cagliari.

"Although the market has discounted the beginning of the crisis to date, more than 40% decrease in the volume of trade and a decline in values ​​that on average amounted to about 25%, the brick - said the Fiaip - guaranteed Italy in a "holding" higher than other forms of investment, through the support of a "demand-established" that contained further declines preventing the occurrence of the explosion of so called "bubble".

Last year, property transactions fell to share 470mila. For the first half of 2013 the market is expected to remain firm: Potential buyers are discouraged and wait "at the" possible new sull'Imu of the next government and the arrival of better times. A benefit is, therefore, the rental market. For Fiaip "only the political and economic stability will enable the start of a slow recovery in the second half of 2013."