Italian town tantalized visitors with offer of old houses for 1 euro. Then the trouble started. There was interest from U.S. visitors, but family divisions scuttled the plan ...

For several years, Ollolai has been tackling depopulation by offering houses in need of renovation for just 1 euro to those willing to relocate and contribute to revitalising the area.

In 2025, 1 euro houses in Italy continue to attract the attention of many people from around the world. This programme, created to combat the depopulation of small villages and bring abandoned ...

Find out where to buy 1-euro homes in Italy from Tuscany to the Amalfi Coast and what 1-euro homes cost including renovations according to real estate experts.

Towns across Italy are selling off abandoned homes for 1 euro. Here’s how much people spent buying and renovating them.

A renovation on this 1-euro house in Mussomeli, in central Sicily, would cost a buyer about $50,000. (Foreign Correspondent: Matt Henry) Italy has the oldest population in Europe.

To reboot the area. A house in Italy for one euro sounds too good to be true, which is why we visited Mussomeli - the best known 1 euro house scheme - and talked to foreigners who bought houses there.

The 1 Euro House hosted by Airbnb will allow you to move to Sicily for a year to live in your very own redesigned European townhouse. The catch?

The 1-euro campaign was first proposed in 2008 by TV personality Vittorio Sgarbi, then the mayor of Salemi in southern Sicily, where homes were destroyed in a 1968 earthquake.