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Your vibrant marketplacefor everyone who loves Italy.

Share your wish listWe pre-select for youOff-market on requestFor investors and private buyersDicembre all’italiana24 or 31 doors full of ItalyAre you an estate agent?20 founding partner places

You arrive.

We’re already here.

Your home in Italy. And the people who make it feel like home.For everyone from abroad who wants to live or invest in Italy.

You arrive. We’re already here.

Your home in Italy. And the people who make it feel like home.For everyone from abroad who wants to live or invest in Italy.

Pre-launch · We’re launching soon

Be part of it from day oneand treat yourself to our calendar Dicembre all’italiana.

A little joy every day.

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5spaces, one marketplace
founding partner places for agents
20founding partner places for agents
doors full of Italy, or 31 surprises if you like
24doors full of Italy, or 31 surprises if you like
Off-market properties for investors and private buyers, on request
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Gate2Italysays ciao!

There’s always something new to discover here, around the clock: properties all over Italy, stories, experiences and a colourful, lively community that welcomes you too.

Dreaming of a home in Italy or already planning your move? Here you’ll find your property, your agent, the right experts and people who have already made the move to Italy.

Because in Italy, too, it helps to know someone who knows someone.

You’ll find what you’re looking for. And discover what you never knew you were looking for.

Searching and discovering, reimagined: Gate2Italy is built for the way people search, discover and decide today.

Our story

What brings you here?

We connectproperty and people.

The property

Houses and apartments, location, features, prices, agents, financing and the buying process.

Two arcs close into a circle: the property on the left, the people on the right, a person in the gap at the top, our community in the middle. Below, Gate2Italy.
La PiazzaOur
Community
Gate2Italy

The people

Neighbours, contacts, experiences and a community where you arrive and belong.

Five spaces, one marketplace: Pick where you’d like to start.

  • Cream-coloured villa with green shutters in a garden of cypresses, olives and oleander on turquoise Lake Garda.Join now

    Property

    Your new home anywhere in Italy, from agents and private sellers. You see at a glance who you’re talking to.

    Are you an estate agent in Italy?

    Buyers and investors from abroad increasingly start their search with AI.

    Gate2Italy is a property marketplace for all of Italy, built from day one for multilingual AI search. We optimise your agent profile and your listings specifically for it. That makes it easier for international buyers to discover you, your region and your expertise.

    Buying abroad raises lots of questions. That’s why your future buyers also find experts and a community here to guide them on their way to Italy.

    We’re launching with 20 founding partners. As a founding partner, you secure preferential rates, fixed for two years, and help shape our marketplace from the very start.

    Become a founding partner
  • Three friends around 60 laughing over breakfast on a sunny terrace high above a lake in Northern Italy.New

    Living Dreams

    New ways of living for your next chapter. With more lightness, more sunshine and new people.

  • A long table on a small Italian piazza in the evening: people of all ages raise their aperitivo glasses under strings of lights.Open to all

    La Piazza

    Places, stories and people who share your love of Italy. Plenty of inspiration, all in one place.

  • A sunlit desk with a floor plan, an old brass stamp, reading glasses, a fountain pen and an espresso.Coming soon

    Service providers

    Notaries, lawyers, tax advisers, architects and tradespeople. That’s how buyers from abroad who need exactly you find you.

Property, Living Dreams and La Piazza open first. Service providers and investors will follow.

Search

Where in Italyare you looking?

Gate2Italy covers all of Italy. The first properties on our marketplace come from Northern Italy.

MilanBergamoVeronaNorthern Italy, simplified

Lake

Lake Iseo

Kirsten’s home. Monte Isola rises from the middle of the lake.

Share your wish list for Lake Iseo

In three steps

How it works

  1. 1

    Share your wish list

    Tell us a little about yourself and your wishes: where, what for, what budget, when.

  2. 2

    We make a first selection

    This applies to every property on our marketplace, including off-market listings.

  3. 3

    We get in touch

    New listings arrive all the time: we’ll get in touch as soon as the right property comes along.

Share your wish list
Gate2Italy in 90 seconds · with sound and subtitles

La Piazza

New spaces are a beginning.People quickly turn them into home.

Imagine already knowing someone before you arrive. Someone you can ask which tradesperson is reliable and where to find the best aperitivo. A chat becomes a meeting, a meeting becomes a friendship.

You’ll meet people who once had the same questions as you and hear what they would do differently today. At our regional get-togethers, planned once a month, both groups come together. And maybe that’s where you’ll enjoy your first aperitivo with new friends.

Plenty you can. Little you must. Great encounters ahead.

A long table on a small Italian piazza in the evening: people of all ages raise their aperitivo glasses under strings of lights.

Open to all

La Piazza

For everyone who loves Italy and enjoys sharing ideas. Italy groups on Instagram, clubs, associations and regulars’ tables are warmly welcome too: here you’ll meet like-minded people from all over the world.

For expats who already live here or are about to move

Inner Circle

Like every good club, we have a special lounge. Rule number one: you decide how much or how little you take part. We’re planning regional get-togethers once a month and a virtual community where you can stay loosely or closely in touch, just as you like.

Our first members have already joined.

How it all began

The story behindGate2Italy

It all started with a feeling: many people, once their working life ends or the children have left home, long for a fresh start with more lightness, more sunshine and new people.

It quickly became clear: the house is only the beginning. Anyone moving to Italy wants people who welcome them, neighbours to share an espresso with and friends who show them the way.

The whole story
  1. 1A life dream
  2. 2The question: how do people look for a home today?
  3. 3An estate agency, reimagined
  4. 4A vibrant marketplace for everyone who loves Italy

The logbook · Build in public

Our logbook:your invitation.

Watch us build, become part of the community and stay up to date.

We’re building Gate2Italy in the open. In the logbook, you can follow every step: how the idea was born, what’s working right now and what’s next.

Gate2Italy is like every good party: first comes the planning, then the invitations go out, and then comes the big day. Right now, we’re sending out the first invitations.

This one is yours. Want to know when the big party starts? Sign up.

With “Yes, more please!” you sign up for: Keep me in the loop.

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The foundations are laid

Progress
  • The concept
  • Our team
  • A prototype that’s already up and running
  • Personal contacts with people who have bought in Italy
  • Three current, very exciting off-market projects

What awaits you

  • Our partner agents and their listings.
  • New ways of living in our Living Dreams space.
  • Experts in building and living.
  • Our growing community with its people’s stories and topics.
  • And the Inner Circle for everyone who has moved here or is about to.

Like what you’ve seen so far? We’re sure you have something to say too. We’d love every post, every question and every idea.

Write a postAsk a question

Prefer to have a look around first? Welcome to our logbook (in German). To the logbook

21 days until the first door

Dicembreall’italiana.

Free in your inbox from 1 December.

Treat yourself: behind every door, something new and typically Italian awaits. Recipes, stories, news and tips.

Two editions, you choose:

  • Advent edition

    24 doors · 1 to 24 December

  • 31 Italian surprises

    31 doors · 1 to 31 December

Doors 1 to 24 are the same in both editions. The edition with 31 surprises gets doors 25 to 31 on top.

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For agents and businesses

Would you like to send the calendar to your clients with your own logo? From mid-November, on the date of your choice.

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Kirsten Peter at the harbour in Iseo

Kirsten on Lake Iseo

About us

Why we’re buildingGate2Italy

I’ve been living in Iseo for almost four years. I searched for half a year and visited the area five times. With Iseo, it was love at first sight. From day one, I was lucky enough to meet exactly the right people, even before I moved.

That made arriving and living here wonderfully easy. Because it’s great when you know someone who knows someone. My new home quickly felt like home. The move has brought me so much good, above all a better quality of life.

That’s exactly what I wish for everyone. That’s why we’re building Gate2Italy: so that dreams come true easily and reality turns out even better than expected.

I hope you’ll soon be sitting in your new home, with an aperitivo date lined up, looking around and thinking:

“Yes, this is exactly how I imagined it. And how easy it all was.”

Let’s do this together.

Portrait of Kirsten Peter

Kirsten Peter

Initiator & Co-founder

Kirsten is the initiator and co-founder of Gate2Italy and lives on Lago d’Iseo. She stands for the idea and the concept and is currently your first point of contact.

Kirsten’s topics

  • Marketing and partnerships
  • La Piazza and community
  • Living Dreams and new ways of living
  • Investors and off-market projects
Portrait of Simon Bassani

Simon Bassani

Co-founder

Simon is co-founder of Gate2Italy and builds the platform where buyers, agents and experts come together. He makes sure everything on our marketplace truly works, from the first click to the enquiry with the agent.

Simon’s topics

  • Platform and technology
  • Tech contact for agents

FAQ

Good to know

Who is Gate2Italy for?

For everyone from abroad who wants to live in Italy, find a second home or invest. Italians returning home after years abroad are warmly welcome too.

What does Gate2Italy cost me?

For you as an Italy lover, everything is free: browsing, signing up, Dicembre all’italiana. Personal support with your purchase is there whenever you’d like it.

When does it start?

We’re right in the middle of building: we’re bringing our partner agents on board and building the core of our marketplace. Right now, we’re working with our prototype and would love your ideas for improving it. Sign up and be there when we open our marketplace.

Which regions?

Gate2Italy covers all of Italy. The first properties on our marketplace come from Northern Italy.

How is Gate2Italy different from typical property portals?

We connect property and people. Alongside location, price and the buying process, one thing matters just as much to us: how will life be for you there? Do you enjoy meeting lots of people, or prefer a few good ones? Do you like it peaceful or lively? We’ll help you find the right place for that, too. Typical portals show you a house. We show you a home.

Who’s behind it?

The founders are Kirsten Peter and Simon Bassani. Many people around us who know Italy inside out support us with advice and hands-on help. And everyone who has bought in Italy themselves brings their own stories.

Your Italyis waiting.

However concrete your Italian dream already is: we look forward to talking with you.

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