There's a specific moment when the dream of buying a house in Italy stops being a romantic idea and becomes something real. Maybe it's a photo you stumbled across. A week spent in Tuscany. A hilltop village you haven't been able to forget. And from that moment, the question starts to take shape: what if I actually did this? It's a beautiful question. And for many people, the right answer is yes. But there's something almost nobody talks about — something that foreign buyers

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