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One address. 50 sources. Millions of data points. Just one report.

Everything you need to know before buying an Italian property that's difficult to verify: risks, local prices, land registry, services, transportation, and much more.

For example: Via Dante 7, Milan.

Straight away and free: the liveability index for the area and the cadastral parcel. If you want to know everything about the property, you can buy the full report, with 32 topics and the buying guide.

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Liveability index free for any address

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What you get A report of more than 30 pages covering 32 topics on the building and the area, plus a guide to the questions to ask and the documents to request.

How it works

  1. Enter the address Street, house number and municipality are enough, or sheet and parcel, or coordinates.

  2. Confirm the property or the land Find the right building or plot directly on the map.

  3. Find out what you need to know Get the report with data, ratings, sources and update dates, online and as a PDF.

How it works, step by step

What do you want to check?

Data that would be hard to find on your own

Vicinalia gathers and cross-checks information from official sources, including specialist databases that are not always easy to find, access or interpret. With 32 topics and a buying guide, it is the most complete report for anyone buying a home in Italy.

You enter an address. Vicinalia does the rest.

86 million
land registry parcels
27 million
house numbers
7,894
municipalities, every one in Italy
Milan facades with shutters, plants on the balconies and the Italian flag
Example: Via Pietro Custodi 3, Milano

88 /100

very good liveability

The area in one number, from 0 to 100

Search for an address and you see the Vicinalia liveability index for free, with every part in detail in the report. It looks at eight things that matter when you choose where to live: services on foot, transport, green space, natural hazards, air quality, noise from trains, major roads and aircraft, local buildings and internet connection.

If other things matter to you, build your own index: with a free account you choose the parameters, for example a state primary school nearby or few bars downstairs, and decide how much each one weighs. From then on it applies to all your reports and searches.

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What's in the report on the home and the area

32 topics and a buying guide. Some of the data would be hard to find and interpret: Vicinalia does it for you and always cites the source.

See a sample report Where the data comes from

Keep an eye on the home With a subscription we write to you if a rating in the report changes, new prices come out or there is a strong earthquake. How it works

The area in one number 1

  • The Vicinalia liveability index A number from 0 to 100 summing up what it is like to live in the area: services on foot, transport, green space, natural hazard safety, distance from stations and airports, buildings and connection, each with its own score. Method and weights are published on the website.

The parcel and prices 4

  • Cadastral parcel The cadastral parcel of the building: sheet and parcel number, area, boundaries on the map and street numbers. Source: Revenue Agency (Agenzia delle Entrate).
  • The land Only in land reports: how large the plot is, how it lies (slope, orientation, altitude), what the area is, whether it looks farmed or idle from the satellite and whether there are buildings. Source: the other blocks of the report.
  • Buildings on the parcel How many buildings stand on the parcel, how much ground they cover, how tall they are and how many floors they have, from open maps. Sources: OpenStreetMap, Microsoft and Google via Overture Maps.
  • Price per square metre of the area Minimum and maximum prices per square metre for buying and renting in the area, including past years. Source: Revenue Agency (Agenzia delle Entrate).

Natural hazards 8

  • Landslide risk Whether the parcel or the 100 metres around it are in landslide risk zones, and how many recorded landslides are nearby. Source: ISPRA.
  • Flood risk Whether the parcel is in an area that can flood, with frequent, infrequent or rare floods. Source: ISPRA.
  • Earthquake risk How exposed the municipality is to earthquakes, on 4 levels, and how strongly the ground could shake at that point. Sources: Civil Protection Department and INGV.
  • How the ground under the house shakes How much the ground under the house amplifies earthquake shaking compared with bedrock, and whether the municipal study reports landslides, liquefaction or faults at that point. The seismic zone applies to the whole municipality, this applies to the single plot. Source: Italian Civil Protection Department and CNR-IGAG.
  • Ground movement Whether the ground under and around the building is sinking or rising, in millimetres a year measured by satellites, with a chart of recent years. Source: Copernicus.
  • Areas burnt by wildfire Whether the land has been burnt by a wildfire, in which year and how close: on burnt land you cannot build for 10 years or change its use for 15, and for 15 years the restriction must be quoted in the deed of sale, otherwise the deed is void. Source: Copernicus.
  • What floods and earthquakes cost on average What floods and earthquakes cost a 100 square metre home on average each year, in euros: the figure to set beside the premium of a natural disaster insurance policy. With the European damage models and the official Italian hazard.
  • Radon Whether the municipality is in a radon priority area (radon is a natural radioactive gas that builds up indoors) and what ISPRA estimates. Sources: Regions and ISPRA.

Building, ground and environment 13

  • Age of buildings in the area When the buildings in the area were built, what they are made of, how many floors they have and what condition they are in. Source: Istat.
  • Energy rating of the building Only in Lombardy and Piedmont The energy ratings of the flats in the building, from the certificates lodged with the Region, and those of the area for comparison; never a single flat. Source: Lombardy Region and Piedmont Region.
  • Ground elevation and slope How high above sea level the property is, how steep the ground of the parcel is, which way it faces and how uneven it is. Source: INGV.
  • Distance from the sea and coastal erosion How far away the sea is and whether the nearest shoreline is retreating through erosion or advancing. Source: ISPRA.
  • Parks and protected natural areas Whether the property is inside or near a park, a nature reserve or a Natura 2000 site, and what that means. Sources: EEA and Ministry of the Environment.
  • Land use in the area Whether the area is town, countryside or woodland: land use at the point and the shares of built-up land, fields, woods and water within 500 metres and 1 kilometre. Source: Copernicus.
  • How much is already built here How much of the land is already covered by houses, roads and yards: the share within 200 and 500 metres of the address, the municipality figure against province, region and Italy, and which land around here was built over in the last year. Source: ISPRA and SNPA.
  • Greenery around the home How green the 500 metres around the home are and how that changes over twelve months, seen from the satellite: whether the area is green or all asphalt, and what happens in summer. On large plots the plot itself is measured too. Source: Copernicus.
  • Summer heat How hot the surface around the home gets on summer days, and how this spot compares with the twelve kilometres around it, with a map of the heat across the area. Source: Copernicus.
  • The air you breathe Nitrogen dioxide, fine particles PM2.5 and PM10 particles at the address, as a yearly average, compared with today's legal limits, the 2030 ones and the WHO recommendations, and how this spot compares with the rest of the municipality. Source: European Environment Agency.
  • Landscape protection on the area Whether the area around the property is under landscape protection (coasts, rivers, woods, parks, areas declared by decree) and whether common land rights apply: these are the cases where outside work needs landscape consent. Source: Ministry of Culture.
  • What the municipal plan says Only in Lombardy, Veneto, the province of Bolzano and the metropolitan city of Turin What the municipal plan says for the parcel: zone and designated use, transformation area, planned public facilities, agricultural area, historic centre and constraints in the plan, with the municipality's sheets or rules; in Lombardy also landscape sensitivity, geological feasibility and buffer zones. Sources: Lombardy and Veneto Regions, Province of Bolzano, Metropolitan City of Turin.
  • Sun and solar panels How much energy solar panels would produce in a year, how many fit on the roof of the building, how much you would save and how many years it takes to pay back (rough estimate). Sources: European Commission and Overture Maps.

Residents, services and transport 9

  • Who lives here Residents, men and women, age, education, work, households and empty homes in the area, compared with the rest of the municipality, with charts. Source: Istat.
  • Income and climate of the municipality What taxpayers in the municipality declare compared with the province and region, how incomes are spread, how many years of income a home in the area costs, and the municipality's climate zone. Sources: Ministry of Economy and Finance, Italian Revenue Agency and DPR 412/1993.
  • Fast internet Whether fibre reaches the home or the street cabinet at the address, at what speed, and whether there is internet from an antenna (FWA). Source: AGCOM.
  • Nearby services Schools, pharmacies, hospitals, shops and other services within 500 metres and 1 kilometre, with the closest ones. Sources: Ministries of Education and Health, Overture Maps.
  • Public transport Bus, tram and underground stops within 500 metres and the lines that serve them, where timetables are public.
  • Cycle paths and pedestrian streets How many kilometres of cycle paths there are nearby and how close the nearest one is, the pedestrian streets nearby and whether the address is on one of them, with what to ask the town hall about limited traffic zones.
  • Noise from roads, railway and airport How close railway tracks, motorways, dual carriageways, the main road and the airport are, read against the noise bands set by Italian law: within 100 metres the law allows more noise than elsewhere, between 100 and 250 metres the limits are less strict. It says how close the source of noise is, not how much noise reaches the house.
  • Industry near the home The large industrial plants nearby: how many within one kilometre and within three, their names, what they do and how far away they are. Power stations, steelworks, cement works, chemicals, landfill sites, incinerators, wastewater plants and intensive livestock farms. Source: European Environment Agency.
  • Contaminated sites in the municipality How many sites recognised as contaminated there are in the municipality and how many have been cleaned up, which open sites lie within one kilometre of the home and how far away, and whether the home is inside or near a site of national interest (SIN) such as Porto Marghera or Taranto. All of Italy except Sardinia, where the report says so. Source: the Regions and ISPRA.

Buying guide 2

  • Questions to ask before buying Questions to ask the seller, the condominium administrator, a surveyor, the notary and the municipality, chosen from this property's data, each with its reason.
  • Official documents and how to get them How to get the cadastral extract, cadastral map, floor plan and other official documents for free or at low cost, with the parcel details ready to use.

What the report doesn't do

  • Covers the building, not the individual flat Floor, floor plan, cadastral income and owners are not public data: you need a land registry search or a floor plan.
  • Prices are for the local area The Revenue Agency publishes a minimum and maximum price per square metre for the zone. The value of a specific home is set by a surveyor.
  • Risks summarise the national maps They do not replace the official plans or a check by a qualified professional.

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