Rural stone houses, barns and village houses around Lucca, with local professionals for the work.
Have you found a stone house near Lucca that needs work? You are looking at two budgets, the purchase price and the restoration. This page lists the stone houses for sale in Lucca that we handle and that need restoring: rural houses, small barns and houses in old farm courtyards, on the plain, in the hills and in the villages around the city.
Before making an offer, find out what you are allowed to do: extend, open new windows, turn a barn into living space. The town's planning rules and the land registry status decide this, and we check them along with planning compliance and mortgages.
Essegi is a family-run agency founded in Lucca in 1983. For complete or partial restoration we can introduce you to surveyors, architects and builders from our network, and we can help you look for a mortgage.
Browse the stone houses below and book a free, no-obligation consultation with our foreign buyers' desk.
A stone house left empty for years should be seen by a surveyor (geometra), architect or engineer before you sign. The key questions concern the roof, the wooden floors, the load-bearing walls, cracks and rising damp. Structural work in Italy follows anti-seismic rules, and it can weigh heavily on the estimate.
If you need time for these checks, tell your consultant before you sign an offer, so it can be built into the negotiation.
Depending on the work, a notice or a building permit is usually filed with the town hall by your surveyor; in areas protected for their landscape, a separate approval may be needed. Plan for it: permit times add to the time on site.
The budget also covers design fees, paperwork and utilities. An abandoned rural house may have no mains water, power or sewer connection, and you may need new connections or a private drainage system.
If the house is part of a farm courtyard, the roof, façades or yard may be shared with neighbours, and work on them has to be agreed with the other owners. Ask early who lives in the courtyard and what they plan to do. Our page on farmhouses in Lucca explains how shared courtyards work.
Benedetta Satti and Isabel Saragozza Aquilina, of our foreign buyers' desk, keep you in touch with us in your language between visits. Before you start, read how buying in Italy works.
Antonio and Chiara wrote: "A great deal of credit goes to Margherita for her speed, responsiveness and professionalism, and for her ability to find the properties we were looking for in a short time." (translated from Italian)
