I've been daydreaming a bit about escaping to the countryside and keep seeing houses in rural Italy for €20k–50k. Not the famous €1 houses, but actual homes that often look surprisingly decent in the photos.
Are these listings generally legit, or is there usually a catch? I understand they're often in remote villages with few jobs and shrinking populations, but the prices still seem almost too good to be true from a Northern European perspective.
Has anyone here actually bought one, or knows people who did? What was the reality compared to the advertisement?