The technical studio international buyers call before they sign — and after another professional has said the case is hopeless. Pre-acquisition due diligence, sanatoria, and restoration across Umbria and Tuscany. Delivered in Italian and English.
"Before us, the property could not be sold.Studio Tecnico Geom. Ludovico Petturiti — Lisciano Niccone, Umbria
After us, it was."
Studio Tecnico Petturiti was founded by Geom. Leonardo Petturiti in 1980. For four decades he has worked the same six municipalities across Umbria and Tuscany — long enough to know each Comune's planning office personally, and which thresholds a sanatoria will and will not clear.
Geom. Ludovico Petturiti joined the practice in 2021 and now leads international client work. The studio handles roughly twelve to fifteen properties per year. It declines more than it accepts.
All deliverables — pre-purchase reports, sanatoria filings, restoration documentation — are produced in side-by-side Italian and English.
From blank land to finished villa, from a neglected farmhouse to a prestige listing — we manage every technical and bureaucratic step of the process.
A fixed-fee, ten-day report covering urban conformity, cadastral accuracy, habitability, heritage constraints and every risk the notary is not required to flag. Delivered in side-by-side Italian and English. One document that tells you what you are really buying — before the compromesso.
Italian properties carry histories that rarely match their plans. We reconcile the two — formally, definitively, and in writing. From cadastral non-conformity to the most complex abusi edilizi, we resolve what stands between your purchase and a clean title. 20+ sanatorie closed. All positive.
Once the title is clean, the work begins. We lead the full arc — design, permits, Soprintendenza, tender, site direction, final handover — on behalf of owners who are usually elsewhere. From derelict ruin to keys delivered.
Restoration project — Niccone Valley
Italy's planning and cadastral system is complex, layered and — if you are not deeply familiar with it — opaque. Properties get stuck. Sales fall through. Buyers walk away. We have spent 30 years navigating exactly this complexity.
"We have made sellable properties that had been blocked for years. If the problem exists within Italian planning law, we can find a solution."
Rooms that legally don't exist, extensions never registered, internal layouts that don't match the records. We correct, regularise and make the property saleable.
We assess whether amnesty (sanatoria) applies, prepare and submit the full package, and resolve the irregularity with the relevant municipality.
Converting a barn, agricultural outbuilding or commercial space into a legal residential property requires specific permits. We manage the full procedure.
Before you sign, we review every technical and planning aspect of the property. No surprises after the notary.
We collaborate regularly with the international agencies whose buyers expect technical certainty before signature, and with the Italian notaries who close the deals that follow.
Bucciarelli-Ducci · Migliori e Biavati · Gambacorta
We never hold client funds. All payments flow through your Italian notary's trust account. We represent the buyer's technical interest — never the seller, never the agency.
US buyer, UK seller. Sotheby's International Realty in the deal. A property other professionals had set aside. Annexe with an entire sub-basement floor missing from every official document; non-compliant internal and external openings; partial change of use from non-residential to residential. In five months we delivered full sanatoria, cadastral regularisation, the Certificato di Agibilità — the single most decisive document to make a property legally sellable — and the Relazione Tecnica Integrata alla Compravendita, the legally binding technical report in which the surveyor personally assumes responsibility for the property's compliance. Closed at €4.5M.
Client identities protected. Confidential dossier — sanitised — available on request to qualified buyers and their advisors.
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Niccone Valley, Lisciano Niccone. A complete transformation from derelict ruin to one of the valley's most significant private estates. Main villa with wine cellar, gym and master suite with private balcony. Swimming pool, tennis court, two independent gated entrances and a fully independent two-storey guest villa — 200 m² with its own private pool — set apart on the opposite side of the estate.
Est. value €7,000,000
Cortona. A historic estate totalling 1,000 m² comprising the main villa, a secondary residence (La Fattoria) with arched portico and lemon house, swimming pool, limonaia, garage and formal Italian garden.
Est. value €5,000,000
Cortona. The villa featured in the 2003 film Under the Tuscan Sun. The estate comprises the main villa, fattoria, small annex, swimming pool, formal gardens and a remarkable wisteria-covered brick pergola with central well. Approximately 550 m² total.
Est. value €3,500,000
Cortona, within the historic walls — directly below the Basilica di Santa Margherita. Private park comprising main villa, studio annex, guest house, Italian gardens with terraced stonework, travertine-lined pool and solarium. Within the grounds, a preserved 11th-century monastery ruin maintained as an open-air museum.
Est. value €6,500,000
Passignano sul Trasimeno. A hilltop complex rebuilt entirely from derelict ruins. Joint venture with an international client — we presented our design proposal in France and were awarded the commission over competing firms from Rome.
Est. value €5,000,000
Complete restoration with oversized timber-frame pergola, full exterior rework, Italian garden, restored pool with new travertine solarium and stone annex. Direct view onto the Castello di Sorbello.
Est. value €2,400,000
Lake Trasimeno · Castiglion Fiorentino · Monte San Savino · Asciano
Thirty years of operating in the same area means we know every municipality, every planning office, every local contractor and every nuance of how property ownership works here. That knowledge is not replaceable.
We reply within one business day, directly from the studio. We work in English and Italian, and are used to clients in different time zones.