Sicily, the largest island in the Mediterranean, is an increasingly popular choice for international property buyers. Properties for sale in Sicily can be in a stylish seaside resort, a baroque city, a friendly village or overlooking a vineyard or lemon grove. What most property in Sicily has in common is its affordability, including the famous one-euro homes made famous by Amanda Holden, Stanley Tucci and others.
Naso, Messina, Italy
Villa Maria Teresa - Naso Beautiful country house with sea view and small garden near Capo D'Orlando in the Comune Naso. Surroundings Our property is located on the north coast of Sicily in the province of Messina. The village is around 2 hours fro...
€150,000
Palermo, Palermo, Italy
Appartamento Michela - Palermo In one of our favourite palazzo buildings on Palermo's beautiful via Roma, Appartamento Michela is a luxury fourth-floor apartment that is as spacious as it is filled with history. The four-bedroom property offers 250...
€360,000
Casteldaccia, Palermo, Italy
Villa Valentina - Casteldaccia In Casteldaccia, in the north of Sicily, between Palermo and Cefal , you will find the completely renovated and modern Villa Valentina. Surrounded by nature and tranquillity and a magnificent view of the sea are just ...
€440,000
Palermo, Palermo, Italy
Appartamento Valentina - Palermo Appartamento Valentina This spacious apartment is located in a quiet yet central district of Palermo; from here it is only a few hundred meters to the Teatro Massimo and the pedestrian street via Maqueda. The apartm...
€190,000
Villabate, Palermo, Italy
Villetta Panorama - Villabate 2-storey house surrounded by lemon groves with 180-degree views of the Gulf of Palermo Surroundings It is about 5 minutes by car from the center of Villabate to the property. Villabate itself is a typical suburb of s...
€115,000
Santa Flavia, Palermo, Italy
Villetta Giusy Santa Flavia Detached house in perfect condition in the hinterland of Bagheria - approx. 10 km from the sea. This country house has a plot of about 2000 m where you can even build a swimming pool. The house is in perfect, renovate...
€290,000
Bagheria, Palermo, Italy
Villa Vanessa - Mongerbino Villa Vanessa is a splendid, newly built villa situated on the coastal road that connects Aspra with the fishing village of Porticello. Along this road there are numerous villas that belong or have belonged to wealthy Pale...
€840,000
Ribera, Agrigento, Italy
Villa La Torre - Ribera Situated on a small hill less than 6 km from Ribera and about 1700 metres from the sea is the beautiful Villa La Torre. The villa enjoys excellent privacy, there are no properties in the immediate vicinity and it is totally ...
€610,000
Santa Flavia, Palermo, Italy
Villa Elena - Santa Flavia With a spectacular, unobstructed seafront position overlooking the Gulf of Termini Imerese, Villa Elena is a luxurious four-bedroom villa available at a fantastic price. Combining unique 1960s design in a perfect natural...
€340,000
Sciacca, Agrigento, Italy
Casa Salvo - Sciacca Characteristic country house surrounded by olive trees, citrus plants and fruit trees. The house is located in the municipality of Sciacca in the province of Agrigento. Sciacca is a coastal, tourist and spa town rich in monumen...
€100,000
Mistretta, Messina, Italy
Casa Nella - Mistretta Surroundings Casa Nella is located in the town of Mistretta, in the province of Messina. It is a charming country house, immersed in the greenery and tranquility of the Sicilian hills in a panoramic and evocative position. Th...
€85,000
Trabia, Palermo, Italy
Casa Marianna - Trabia Casa Marianna, Tiny House in the hills above Trabia with sea view The property This small house is located in the countryside in the suburb of Trabia in the province of Palermo on the north coast of Sicily. The house is in...
€78,000
Casteldaccia, Palermo, Italy
Casa Giuseppe - Casteldaccia Casa Giuseppe is located in Casteldaccia, a coastal town in northern Sicily between Palermo and Cefal . It is a property with ample outdoor space , a very large veranda and a beautiful garden. Of course, you cannot miss...
€155,000
Licata, Agrigento, Italy
Appartamento Rita - Licata This apartment is located on the second floor of a residential building in the immediate vicinity of the marina, which is frequented by yachts from all over the world. Surroundings Licata is located 47 kilometers southe...
€120,000
Santa Flavia, Palermo, Italy
Appartamento Antonio Sant'Elia This newly built flat is located on the 1st floor of a condominium in Sant'Elia, a hamlet of Santa Flavia, only 15 km from Palermo. It is only a few hundred metres from the village's small beach, the picturesque bays o...
€220,000
Santa Flavia, Palermo, Italy
Appartamento Paolo - Sant'Elia Small, newly renovated apartment with sea view on the 1st floor in the fishing village of Santa Elia. The surrounding area Santa Elia is a picturesque seaside resort that belongs to the municipality of Santa Flavia....
€129,000
Santa Flavia, Palermo, Italy
Appartamento Alessandro - Sant'Elia The hamlet of Santa Elia in the province of Palermo is a place of ancient and authentic charm, immersed in nature and surrounded by the crystal-clear sea of the Sicilian coast. Casa Alessandro is a new apartment...
€190,000
Lascari, Palermo, Italy
Plot Alessandro - Lascari Four kilometres inland from Sicily's beautiful north coast, Plot Alessandro is a 4.5 hectare plot of agricultural hillside land around 300m above sea level. With panoramic views to the north and west, over the sparkling tur...
€160,000
Chiaramonte Gulfi, Ragusa, Italy
Baglio Caterina Chiaramonte Gulfi Baglio Caterina near Comiso In the sunny south-east of Sicily, we have a very special rustic property here, consisting of four independent residential units, a large warehouse or stable and a plot of land measuri...
€320,000
Santa Flavia, Palermo, Italy
Appartamento Valentino - Porticello One of the biggest three-bedroom apartments you'll find in small-town SIcily, Appartamento Valentino is found just 200m from the sea in the small fishing village of Porticello. With over 170m2 of internal space, ...
€185,000
Given its location at the crossroads of Europe, the Middle East and Africa, an island so large that it’s hard not to bump into when sailing laterally across the Mediterranean, it’s no wonder that Sicily has an important place in antiquity. Sicily is an Italian island but with a distinctly Greek feel to it. Indeed, when the Greek mathematician Archimedes left out of his bath yelling “Eureka!”, he was in Syracuse, on Sicily’s east coast.
So let’s start there. Syracuse, and its island Ortygia, is one of Sicily’s baroque cities. Sicilian Baroque is a luscious, curvaceous style of architecture developed in the early 18th century in Sicily after an earthquake in 1693 levelled much of the existing architecture. Baroque-style properties for sale in Sicily will tend to be pricier, but there are plenty of affordable older properties down the alleyways of Ortygia, Palermo, Noto, Ragusa and other baroque beauties.
Palermo is the capital of the island home to one of Sicily’s two airports with year-round direct flights from the UK and other countries. Other options for arrival include the train, which after a beautiful route from Naples along the coast is loaded onto a ferry for the 20-minute crossing of the Straits of Messina. It all takes around 48 hours from London to your home in Sicily.
You can’t talk about property for sale in Sicily without mentioning one-euro homes in Sicily. The story so far… the authorities in small towns and villages in central Sicily were so worried about losing younger families to the cities and mainland that they came up with the idea of selling older properties for just one euro, so long as the buyer committed to spending thousands doing them up. Cue an influx of energetic, wealthy overseas buyers and new jobs in construction. Film crews followed! The best of the one-euro Sicilian homes have now gone, but there are plenty of together for only a few thousand more.
Most people looking for a suitable property for sale in Sicily will choose the more well know areas, either along the northern coast either side of Palermo or the east coast around Catania and Syracuse.
Taking the north first, the popular resorts of Trapani in the far west, Cefalú in the centre and Milazzo in the east are historic cities that have adapted well to tourism. Prices tend to rise the further west you go, but you’ll find a nice home for sale in Sicily’s northern coast from €100,000.
On the east coast, the glorious resort town of Taormina has long attracted the British and Americans – the latter in particular since featuring in The White Lotus TV drama.
In the east, Syracuse jostles with Catania for position as most attractive city. The honey-coloured baroque buildings, resplendent with carved figures and water features, just invite you to sit down with a local wine from Mount Etna, or a gelato, and watch the world go by. There are plenty of villages too, with property for sale in Sicily. One of the most attractive is Castiglione di Sicilia, with country properties for sale in the Sicilian countryside from just €200,000, all with Mount Etna puffing away gently (usually) in the distance. Weird though it may seem, you can ski on Mount Etna too.
Perhaps the best thing about Sicily is its people. Forget the cliches, Sicilians tend to be kind, calm and friendly.