In Reggio there are around 3 thousand vacant homes, but in the face of growing demand. What makes owners wary? Fabrizio Carretti, vice president of Fiaip, responds
REGGIO EMILIA – One strong demand for rental homes that collides with 3 thousand vacant homes, which the owners deliberately keep empty. This is the market situation in the capital municipality, according to research conducted by the Municipality of Reggio and Unimore. In the opinion of those who work in the real estate sector, lThe reasons for the owners’ mistrust are different. “Some of them have had some problems in managing to maintain a paid rent, with additional expenses paid and condominium costs – he explains Fabrizio Carretti, vice president of the Italian Federation of Professional Real Estate Agents – There’s a bit of distrust especially from users who do not yet have a income of course, because they have fixed-term contracts and are in an evolving family situation. On the part of some owners there is also a certain foreclosure on users not Italianto”.
The continuous increase in university enrollments, which have exceeded 10 thousand, has increased the demand for housing, pushing rents upwards. Average prices range from 400 to 600 euros for a one-bedroom apartment. Between 550 and 700 euros for a two-bedroom apartment. Many medium to large apartments have been converted to accommodate university students. How to act to try to calm prices?
“The apartments are mostly rented with the agreed rent – declared Carretti – It cannot be the private individual who takes on the burden of making particularly low rents because the private individual must have a fair remuneration. It is the public that must expand the offer of public properties given at lower prices in relation to the difficulties faced by a portion of the population that has difficulty in having an acceptable income to pay rent”.
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