The 2016 country reputation ranking The countries with the highest reputation worldwide have been ranked by the Reputation Institute in its annual Country RepTrak index. A ranking to be proud of According to the Reputation Institute, Italy ranks 12th. This is great,…
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The weakness of Italian banks, an opportunity for foreign investors? Italian banks have an estimated $360 billion worth of bad credit. Those are loans that will be hard to be rebate by the doors, since their financial or economic recitation…
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The last real estate Observatory of Nomisma, one of Italy’s most prestigious think tanks, evidences that the interest of Italians is no longer limited to the residential sector in recent months: investment in real estate for companies has also grown….
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In 2015, in Italy, the real estate housing market, after the long, steep descent observed since 2007, seems to be back on a growth path (449,000 standardized transactions), confirming and passing (6.5%), the positive figure of the previous year (421,000)….
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The Italian economy is historically fluctuating. Sometimes, it undergoes a depression that can last more than a century. For instance, the Italian economy was perhaps Europe’s most prosperous during the Renaissance. Then, European nations started colonization of Africa, Asia and America,…
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In 2016, the Italian government lowers property taxes in order to boost the real estate market IMU (Imposta Municipale Propria) and TASI (Tassa sui Servizi Indivisibili) are abolished for principal residences Practically, only residents in Italy will benefit from this abolition. Therefore, these two…
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Italy finally in the top ten of European real estate investors This is what immediately catches your eye when you see the report “Emerging trends in real estate europe 2016” published by PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and the Urban Land Institute (ULI)….
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The evolution of the Fiups Index (real estate operators sentiment) from 01/2012 to 08/2015 The Fiups is an acronym for Federimmobiliare, University of Parma and Source Group and is a graphical representation of sentiment. The index is produced by Sorgente…
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