The 20 best-rated places to buy in Italy
Ranked on the balanced profile: climate and risk, local vitality, amenities and access, property value, and the market — weighted as a buyer with no single overriding priority would weight them.
- Drawn
- Jul 31, 2026
- Ranked from
- 3,994 municipalities
- Excluded, provisional
- 352
- Scoring model
- 2026.12-momentum-v1
| # | Municipality | Province | Population | Overall score | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fiumicino | Roma | 82,829 | 78/100 | A |
| 2 | Ladispoli | Roma | 40,794 | 77/100 | A |
| 3 | Varese | Varese | 78,992 | 76/100 | A |
| 3 | Somma Lombardo | Varese | 17,879 | 76/100 | A |
| 3 | Varano Borghi | Varese | 2,512 | 76/100 | A |
| 6 | Luino | Varese | 14,125 | 75/100 | A |
| 7 | Cuveglio | Varese | 3,368 | 74/100 | A |
| 7 | Castel Volturno | Caserta | 30,731 | 74/100 | A |
| 7 | Ispra | Varese | 5,360 | 74/100 | A |
| 7 | Tremezzina | Como | 4,979 | 74/100 | A |
| 7 | Cittiglio | Varese | 3,799 | 74/100 | A |
| 7 | Olgiate Olona | Varese | 12,744 | 74/100 | A |
| 13 | Santa Marinella | Roma | 18,431 | 73/100 | A |
| 13 | Busto Arsizio | Varese | 84,005 | 73/100 | A |
| 13 | Como | Como | 83,135 | 73/100 | A |
| 13 | Gallarate | Varese | 52,902 | 73/100 | A |
| 13 | Porlezza | Como | 4,905 | 73/100 | A |
| 13 | Saronno | Varese | 38,732 | 73/100 | A |
| 13 | Marchirolo | Varese | 3,624 | 73/100 | A |
| 13 | Azzate | Varese | 4,689 | 73/100 | A |
What this table leaves out, and why
- 352 municipalities were dropped for a provisional grade. Where one of the five pillars has no data for a town, the site fills it with a neutral value and marks the grade provisional. That is fair on the town's own page, where the marker is visible. In a ranking it is not: a town competing on two measured pillars and three neutral ones would place on the strength of what we do not know about it.
- 3,558 were below the population floor of 2,000 inhabitants. Percentile scores are unstable where a single amenity or a single housing development moves the whole figure, and those places sort to the top of an ungated list.
- Tied towns share a rank. Scores are published as whole numbers and they saturate at the top of a table, so several towns here hold the same score and therefore the same position. Where a tie has to be broken to fit twenty rows, it is broken alphabetically — which is arbitrary, and is why the rank is shared rather than invented.
- The ranking is within Italy, not across Europe. Each pillar is a percentile against that country's own distribution, so a Spanish 80 and an Italian 80 are two statements about two different populations. Pooling them would rank countries, not towns.
- This is a municipality, not a house. Everything here describes the place — its climate, its hazards, its services, its market. It says nothing about any individual property in it.
Computed under scoring model 2026.12-momentum-v1. A ranking published under a different model version is not directly comparable with this one — the weights or the inputs changed, so a town moving between two editions may be the model moving rather than the town.
Using it
Free to reproduce, in whole or in part, with attribution to Terragrado and a link to this page or to the methodology. The CSV carries the same rows plus the edition, the model version and a link to each town's page, so a reader can check any line of it.
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