I spent five summers looking for a store of a home in Italy. I traverse the country until I settled on the Abruzzo region in 2017 Romina showed me a historical property which checked all of my boxes. The property needed updating, but its bones were solid. When I walked through the door, I just knew it was the home of my dreams.

As we walked away from our first sighting of the town house we were about to buy in Casalbordino, Abruzzo, Italia, my wife, Arnna said ‘I think I need a drink!’ It didn’t help that we had done what every sane home buyer is told not to do! We’d bought property online. Exclusive Property, ensconced in nearby Vasto, and more specifically – Romina and Mila - were the agents that had drawn us into the somewhat complicated web of Italian real estate. Before we'd met face to face we had sent the deposit!

We (my husband and me) are the first generation of Italians born abroad, both medical doctors living in South America. We decided to establish a place of residence in Italy and, to do so, buy a property. After several months of searching, we found the house that seemed ideal to us and we were lucky enough to meet Mila and Romina, owners of the company Exclusive Property, who guided and advised us at every stage of the acquisition process.