Luxury homes in Sardinia, boom in sales to foreigners

Young couples are also starting to buy, no longer just the hard core of the over 65s. Swiss, Germans, Americans, English, Polish, Belgians who browse the offers of luxury homes in Sardinia dreaming of a buen retiro for most of the year, from October to June; or they buy the simplest homes in the historic centers and in the countryside of the interior where they end up residing permanently.

A new decoration

In the last three years, the portal Gate-away.com reports, requests have grown by 30%. And if for multi-million dollar budgets the bulk of preferences are for the upper cape (from Alghero to Gallura, but Cagliari and the southern coast are growing very strongly), foreigners who choose a low profile look for a house everywhere, from Planargia to Baronia, from Nurra to Oristano, from Montiferru to Barbagia. They buy often dilapidated homes for a few tens of thousands of euros and renovate them.

The lifestyle

The real surge, however, is that of luxury homes. "That's right, and it's enough to say that Americans alone have marked a +22% in 2024," confirms Marcello Capitta, of the Capitta & Partners agency in Cagliari, specialized in the sale of luxury properties.

A choice of well-being

Three out of ten are families with children (the others are over 65 or retired). "Young people are managers and professionals who can afford to work remotely. They settle here, they send their children to private school." There are those who commute to Brussels every week to live in Cagliari; the manager who left Hawaii to settle here with his family; the Polish engineering couple who have an international e-commerce.

The expanded research

In the land of the Costa Smeralda, a temple of exclusive holidays, Daniela Ciboddo, owner of Engel & Völkers Porto Cervo with offices also in Olbia, Porto Rotondo and Porto Rafael, notes the trend that drives the purchase. «Today Porto Cervo is no longer the only choice of high-spending clients. Even those with a lot of money are looking for the identity of the places, the authenticity. So the search has expanded to other areas, from Puntaldia to Porto Rafael. And if before we didn't sell houses without a sea view, today we do. The demand for houses in the countryside, villas and stazzi with land around them has grown a lot».