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The pool in a residence, as holiday complexes with shared facilities are called in Italy, is judged in May, on the day the cover comes off. If the water can be brought back without surprises and the equipment starts up again, the season begins on time; if a…
In November a holiday home by the sea seems to be resting. The shutters are closed, the air conditioning is silent, the balcony railing is dry. The salt from the summer, though, is still there: a thin film on the metal, in the tracks of the French windows,…
There is one question that always arrives at the same moment: when the home has been chosen, the offer is almost ready and the family starts going through the figures with the bank. “On top of the price, how much do I need to set aside?” It is…
A Saturday in July, ten o'clock at night. The guests have just arrived in Eraclea Mare, and you are at home, an hour and a half's drive away. Someone has to hand over the keys, check their identity documents, report their details to the police within twenty-four hours…
“I already have a buyer: the neighbour from the next beach umbrella, who knows the flat well. What do I need an agency for?” Owners ask me this often, with the honesty of someone who does not want to offend. On one point they are right: Italian law…
At the end of September, when the beach umbrellas disappear from the sand, someone asks me: “So what is left in Eraclea Mare now?” It might be someone who has had a home here for years and closes it every autumn without ever having lived in it at…
“Let's sign it tonight, so nobody takes it from us.” It is the sentence I hear most often at the end of a successful viewing, when the family is out on the terrace and the sea shows between the pines. I understand it: after months of searching, the…
When an owner sits down across from me and says “it would be worth more in Jesolo”, I stop right there. On the Jesolo figures, they are often right. But that sentence hides a mental shortcut that is about to cost them dearly, one way or the other.
