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Perugia My tenant has missed three months’ rent and I want to give him notice. adds that the proximity to Rome airport The rules seem to have changed (about 90 minutes’ drive) with its repeatedly during the Covid-19 Get all the charm Città di Castello intercontinental flights makes it a more pandemic, but what are the current of without Siena attractive alternative to Florence or Pisa. rules for notices? Niccone “ started a bit like an Lake extension, a spillover to Tuscany, but it There are two main notices used to its high prices (or Trasimeno has gained its own status,” she says. In end assured shorthold tenancies terms of pricing, great opportunities can under the Housing Act 1988. The first tourists), says Città della Pieve be found in the “sweet spot” between is a “no fault” section 21 notice that UMBRIA €400,000 and €600,000. However, there ends the letting on or after the last Emanuele Midolo are areas such as the Niccone valley, day of the tenancy. The second is a near Città di Castello, where buyers with section 8 notice, which ends the deep pockets can find more high-end tenancy early if there are rent arrears 50 miles erugia, strongly fortified properties. A 320 sq m five-bedroom or other grounds to do so under by art and nature, on a villa with a pool in Valbona schedule 2 of the act. lofty eminence, rising Rome is available with Savills for €1.9 million. The rules on both forms of notice abruptly from the plain “Now is absolutely a great time to have been modified during the where purple mountains while he was living in Hong Kong. “We buy,” says Chiara Pelizzoni, project pandemic. The government has mingle with the distant travelled across Europe looking for manager and analyst at Italian property announced it intends to abolish the sky, is glowing, on its properties,” he says. “Italy was an easy research institute Nomisma. “Prices in “no fault” eviction procedure and ‘Pmarket-day, with radiant colours,” wrote decision. We fell in love with the country the region have started to recover since section 21 completely, although no Charles Dickens in his 1846 book beyond anywhere else.” the financial crisis, but are still below legislation has yet been passed to do Pictures from Italy. Morgan and his wife didn’t want to be their peak in 2007.” Data from Nomisma so. But the minimum notice periods Perugia’s reputation was further surrounded by other Brits so they shows that, last year, Perugia’s province under sections 8 and 21 have been fortified this week when with great decided to avoid Tuscany — which was accounted for 51 per cent of all extended in both England and Wales. excitement — and complete inaccuracy also more expensive. “Umbria was better transactions in Umbria. In England, the latest extension in the — it was reported that Boris Johnson for that. It wasn’t just a place to spend a Gemma Bruce, founder and managing Coronavirus Act 2020 (Residential had spent a weekend in the medieval vacation, it was truly Italian.” director of estate agency Casa & Tenancies: Protection from Eviction) hilltop town in Umbria. Over the five years that followed he Country, who is selling David Morgan’s (Amendment) (England) Regulations Over the past few years, Perugia and spent almost €2 million in refurbishing house, says that the rising popularity of Above: Passignano sul 2020 applies to all notices given its countryside have attracted their fair a ten-bedroom, ten-bathroom villa that the region is mainly due to one thing: Trasimeno, on the shores between August 29, 2020 and March share of British admirers. Colin Firth, is now for sale for €1.8 million with “Umbria is good value. It has become of . 31, 2021. The rules are complicated, who has recently separated from his Casa & Country Italian Property estate more sophisticated. It presents a Left: a six-bedroom villa but in most instances landlords must Italian wife of 22 years, still has a house agency. “I’m losing my shirt by selling it cheaper, more traditional alternative to perched on a hilltop 9km now give their tenants a minimum there. So has Ed Sheeran, who bought a now,” he says, “but it’s way too big for me Tuscany.” Her parents have bought a from Perugia, on sale for notice period of six months. But if villa with a vineyard in in 2017. on my own [he is now divorced].” holiday home in the region. €2.5 million through there are significant rent arrears (ie at But these A-listers are not the only Brits He tries to fly down to Umbria every Speaking of international travel, Knight Frank. Right: least six months’ rent), the section 8 who have chosen Umbria over the more Friday. “The best moment of my week,” Perugia airport has retracted a press the medieval city of notice period is only four weeks. expensive (and touristy) Tuscany. he says, “is opening the shutters on a release in which it said the prime Perugia, capital of You can therefore now serve David Morgan, 55, works for an Saturday morning and letting the Italian minister travelled to the city last week, Umbria. Far right: a section 8 and section 21 notices and international advertising company. He countryside come in. All the world’s explaining it “confused” him with Tony five-bedroom farmhouse issue possession proceedings, but for lives in Frankfurt, but has spent troubles quickly disappear.” Blair. Whatever happened there, Ryanair close to the town of now you will have to give your tenant lockdown in Umbria with his twin boys Jelena Cvjetkovic, global residential flies from Stansted to Perugia three also has a at least six months’ notice. and teenage daughter, who go to school director at the estate agency Savills, says times a week while Johnson only travels boules court and a Mark Loveday is a barrister with in Città della Pieve. Morgan bought a a small community of British expats by private jet, so there is zero chance of pool house. On the Tanfield Chambers. Email questions house in , on Lake previously living in Asia, like Morgan, being seated next to him. Another great market for €1.9 million to [email protected] Trasimeno, in the province, in 2001 have decided to relocate to Umbria. She reason to visit the region. through Savills

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