My name is Gunther Desaever, since 2000 I live and work in Tuscany as a civil engineer specialised in restoration and renovation My title of engineer has been recognised by the Italian Ministry, which means that I’m authorised to work as an engineer. I have a long experience in restoration and renovation due to a lot of projects in Belgium and Italy. More info on

If you don’t speak Italian and you don’t live in Italy it’s not so easy to find an interesting house. A possible solution could be that you organise a trip to the place were you want to buy, visit some houses with a local real estate agency and hope that one of the houses responds at your demand. This kind of information is easy to find on the website of some local agency. However this way of searching for a home, mostly turns out to be a delusion > more info

In general renovating a property gives you more satisfaction, it’s up to you to decide everything, from the internal to the external design, it’s also less expensive to renovate a building, generally about 30%. Of course renovating is not so evident, on which architect, engineer and firm can you rely on for the renovation project. You can always leave it up to local professionals, turn back to your own country and hope for the best > more info