Do You Want To Buy A House For Only IDR 17 Thousand? Please Lift Your Suitcase To Italy

Patrica, Italy/PHOTO via Wikimedia Commons/pietrocerrato

JAKARTA - The price of the house soaring or expensive does not apply in this village. Located in the south of Rome, Patrica village in Frosinone, Italy offers unreasonable house sale. Only 1 Euro aka the equivalent of 17,082 thousand Rupiah.

Sale of houses for one Euro in Italy has indeed attracted a lot of interest in recent years. There are dozens of people who choose to buy abandoned property in some of the uninhabited cities

Just look at Patrica. More than 40 properties have been abandoned since the early 1900s.

Looking at the rocky highlands overlooking the Sacco valley in central Italy, Patrica is a very beautiful place, but life here is not easy for local residents in the past.

Although local authorities in underpopulated cities as a result of earthquakes and other natural disasters have jurisdictions to sell abandoned houses without permission from their owners, this is not the case in Patrica and other similar cities.

"First of all we need the availability of their owners, or heirs, in releasing their old homes," said Mayor Lucio Fiordaliso as reported by CNN, Monday, March 25.

"Only in this way can we sell this property with their consent, which makes the process very complicated. Almost impossible."

Fiordaliso explained the city received positive responses from 10 owners after sending a public call to engage them in our one euro home project, but they withdrew at the last minute. The rest never answered.

Fiordaliso feels those who change their minds may do so because of problems with other relatives who share in the same property.

Underdeveloped buildings in Italian old cities are sometimes divided into some heirs who only have one part such as bathrooms, balconys, kitchens and nothing can be sold without written permission from all heirs, according to Italian law.

In the past, it was common for children to inherit part of their family homes, including a piece of soil, wells, and fruit gardens.

However, this is not always a guarantee that family relations will remain good and/or stay in touch for years.

Disposal of potentially worth one euro is deadlocked because most relatives who share the same property are at odds with each other for personal reasons or cannot approve of sales, some of them find it difficult to talk or know each other, others live in remote cities and even abroad," the mayor said.