To redevelop the national real estate assets and implement the EU directive on so-called “green homes” an investment of between 800 and one thousand billion would be needed. This is what emerges from aDeloitte analysis, which highlights how in Italy over 8 out of 10 residential buildings are obsolete, with 83% of Italian residential buildings having been built before 1990 and more than half (57%) dating back to before the 1970s. According to Deloitte’s reworking of Istat data, in 2024 the Italian real estate stock consists of more than 13 million buildings, of which approximately 89% are for residential use. And according to the study, the percentage of energy class F and G properties in Italy is over 60%, while in Germany it reaches 45%, in Spain 25% and in France just 21%.
“The Italian residential real estate stock represents approximately 55% of the overall wealth of Italian families. For this reason, a strategy is needed to ensure that the directive does not transform into a black hole, but, on the contrary, becomes an opportunity. ‘adaptation of real estate assets to the provisions of the EPBD directive will, in fact, require technical solutions not only for individual buildings, but also at an infrastructural level” he declared Angela D’Amico, real estate sector leader of Deloitte Italia.
“According to an analysis by Deloitte, between 800 and 1000 billion would be needed to implement the European directive on the energy efficiency of buildings in Italy. It would be laughable, if it weren’t a damned serious thing. We’re talking about figures that are completely out of every logic, which should make all those who supported this measure reflect – he commented in a note Giorgio Spaziani Testa, president of Confedilizia –. It’s time to completely reverse course. The new European legislature must be the one that replaces fanaticism with common sense, and economic freedom for dirigisme. Finally closing the door in the face of lobbies that push every day to enrich themselves at the expense of homeowners. And the first act will have to be to make a clean sweep of the ‘green homes’ directive which, although modified, remains inadmissible. On 8 and 9 June we will vote above all on this.”
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