Sambuca di Sicilia's $1 home scheme, once dominated by American buyers, now sees increasing Italian interest, rejuvenating the town and fostering a revival of rural Italy's abandoned properties.

Narrator: And that's Gillian, a new homeowner in Sambuca, Sicily, a picturesque town in Italy's countryside in danger of dying out. That is, until the government started selling abandoned homes ...

A British couple bid €5,000 (£4,200) to win an abandoned house in Sicily they had never seen before — and now they have three years to renovate it or risk losing it. Lyndsey and Rob Mosley, a ...

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Meredith Tabbone, 45, forked out 1 euro - roughly 80p - for a home in Sambuca di Sicilia, Italy. She managed to secure herself a steal due to the area's depopulation issue, with homes being ...

Tabbone bought the property in Sambuca di Sicilia, Italy, for around one euro after she seized the opportunity provided by the region's depopulation crisis, with abandoned houses slipping into ...

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Financial adviser Paolo Morabito, 25, from Messina in northeast Sicily, and his architect ... projects manager across Italy helped him realize that Sambuca’s housing scheme has a lot to offer ...