Ivan NozziCivil engineer

Guides

Guides for buying, building and renovating in Abruzzo

Ivan Nozzi is an Ingegnere — an engineer who has passed the Italian state examination and is entered on the professional register — working from Torrevecchia Teatina in the province of Chieti. These three guides answer, in full, the questions that reach him before almost every engagement.

Checks before buying a houseUpdated

Why these guides exist

Ivan Nozzi, a civil engineer registered with the Ordine degli Ingegneri della Provincia di Chieti under no. 2489, wrote these guides because the same three questions arrive before almost every engagement: what has to be checked before you sign for a house in Italy, what order a building project actually follows, and how an Italian professional fee is put together.

Answered on the phone, each time, those questions get a hurried answer. Written out once, they move the first conversation to where it belongs — the documents on your particular property, rather than the basics. Each guide also states where it stops, because knowing what a check does not cover matters as much as knowing what it does.

Index

The guides

The first three entries are the guides themselves. The last two are the pages to read straight afterwards. Each one closes on a decision you can then take on your own.

Checks before buying a house in ItalyThis guide lists the paperwork to request from the seller — the visura and cadastral plan, the planning titles, the agibilità — and shows how each is compared against what has actually been built. Read it and you will know whether the house in front of you can be negotiated as it stands, or whether to stop before making an offer.The stages of a building projectThis guide follows a project from feasibility through to handover and names, for every stage, the document that closes it and the decision that is yours to make. Read it and you will know when the technician should be appointed and where delays normally begin.What an engineer costs in ItalyThis guide sets out how Italian professional fees are structured: a percentage of the value of the works, or a fixed amount per filing, plus the 4% Cassa contribution and 22% VAT, with municipal charges and filing duties always separate. Read it and you will be able to compare two quotations and explain why they differ.Geometra, architect or engineerThe three Italian professions do not overlap the way most foreign buyers expect: a geometra does not sign reinforced-concrete structural design or seismic calculation, and much of Abruzzo falls within the more demanding seismic classifications. This page sets out who may sign what, so the choice is made before the appointment rather than after it.Buying a house in AbruzzoThis page follows the Italian sequence of proposta, compromesso and rogito, and places each technical check at the point where it can still change the outcome. Read it and you will know what the notary verifies, what the notary does not, and how the work proceeds when you are not in Italy.

Next step

From the guide to your actual property

A guide states the rule; it cannot describe your building. Write to me with the comune, what you are buying or renovating, and the documents you already hold. I will tell you which check applies, what I produce, and what it does not cover. A written estimate comes before any engagement.

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