Property for sale in Tuscany

The hills of Tuscany are full of old houses to restore that the Italians do not give much value - yet.

Four, five years ago you could get a small farm-house with land for less than 100,000. At that time it was relatively easy to afford the additional restoration costs, but attractive country houses are now often 200,000 euros or more and so with the high costs of restoration a full project can cost close to 500,000 euros or more to fully restore a 200sqm farmhouse.

Installing a must have swimming pool with all the necessary pumps and filtration systems can easily cost in excess of 30,000 euros.

There is a recen article on the Daily Telegraph on how to find and what to look for when restoring a old house in Italy.

But there are lots of alternative, cheap and eco friendly ways to restore old ruins.