Oristano · Sardegna
StableMontresta
Under 500 people and openly recruiting
Photo Gianni Careddu, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Decline, ageing, empty stock, declared shortages
Schools, medical, shops, connectivity, travel
No registered trades here yet. Work here? Join free
Holding its own. Come for the place, not the rescue mission.
One of the smallest comuni running a repopulation push, in the wooded hills behind the Costa del Sinis. Tiny, warm, and honest about what it is: you would be a meaningful percentage of the population.
Before you fall in love
- No primary school in the comune — school-age children commute.
What Montresta is short of
Drawn from comune statements, school and service data, and the shape of the local economy.
Families, urgency 5 of 5
School closed. Reopening it needs children on the register.
Farming & land, urgency 4 of 5
Land available, nobody to work it.
Business founders, urgency 4 of 5
No bar, no shop beyond basics — open one and you have the market.
Schemes you may qualify for
Sardinia first-home grant
Non-repayable regional contribution of up to €15,000 — capped at 50% of the spend — towards buying or renovating a first home in a Sardinian comune of up to 5,000 inhabitants. Funded at €15m a year through 2028.
€15,000
Details
Sardinia first-home grant
Non-repayable regional contribution of up to €15,000 — capped at 50% of the spend — towards buying or renovating a first home in a Sardinian comune of up to 5,000 inhabitants. Funded at €15m a year through 2028.
€15,000
DetailsEligibility
- Comune of up to 5,000 inhabitants (raised from 3,000 for 2026 onwards)
- The property becomes your registered primary residence
- Priority scoring favours arrivals from outside the region or abroad, under-40s, and families with children
What you commit to
- Residence must be kept in the property for 5 years after the final payment
- Applications go through each comune's own call, not the region directly
Terms checked against the issuing body on 2026-08-18 · official source.
7% flat tax for foreign pensioners
Foreign pension and foreign-source income taxed at a flat 7% for NINE tax years for new residents of southern comuni up to 30,000 inhabitants — the threshold was raised from 20,000 on 7 April 2026 (Law 34/2026), which added the larger southern towns.
Details
7% flat tax for foreign pensioners
Foreign pension and foreign-source income taxed at a flat 7% for NINE tax years for new residents of southern comuni up to 30,000 inhabitants — the threshold was raised from 20,000 on 7 April 2026 (Law 34/2026), which added the larger southern towns.
Eligibility
- Receiving a pension paid from outside Italy
- Not Italian tax-resident in the previous five tax periods
- Residency in a comune of up to 30,000 inhabitants in Sicilia, Calabria, Sardegna, Campania, Basilicata, Abruzzo, Molise or Puglia — or a 2009/2016 earthquake comune of any size
- The paying country must have an administrative-cooperation agreement with Italy
What you commit to
- Genuine tax residency must be maintained
- The regime runs for nine consecutive tax periods, not ten as widely reported
Terms checked against the issuing body on 2026-08-18 · official source.
Where Montresta is
350m up, 20km from the sea, 80km from an airport.
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Who can do the work
The trades register is new
No registered trades in Montresta yet.
We only list businesses that have signed up themselves, so an empty register is an unknown, not a no — it means nobody has joined yet, not that there is nobody to do the work.
Are you a builder, electrician or geometra here?
Sei un'impresa, un elettricista o un geometra? Iscriviti, è gratis.
Join the register — free