Nuoro · Sardegna
PrimePartner comuneOllolai
Barbagia highlands, granite houses, long lives
Photo Pispisos, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Decline, ageing, empty stock, declared shortages
Schools, medical, shops, connectivity, travel
No registered trades here yet. Work here? Join free
Needs people and can support them. The sweet spot.
Deep in the Sardinian interior, in one of the blue zones where people routinely pass a hundred. Ollolai has run schemes for years and actively courts foreigners and remote workers, with a digital-nomad programme alongside the cheap housing.
Before you fall in love
- Population down 10.1% in 6 years. The decline is ongoing, not historic.
What Ollolai is short of
Drawn from comune statements, school and service data, and the shape of the local economy.
Remote workers, urgency 5 of 5
Explicit programme to attract people who bring their own income.
Families, urgency 5 of 5
School numbers critical.
Artisans, urgency 3 of 5
Weaving and woodwork traditions with no successors.
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 Ollolai is
970m up, 60km from the sea, 95km from an airport.
Loading map…
Who can do the work
The trades register is new
No registered trades in Ollolai 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