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.
Cefal , Sicily, Italy
In the popular seaside town of Cefal , is this 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom contemporary and very well presented 119m2 apartment, located on the 3rd floor and top floor of 3. The apartment is very centrally located providing easy access to all the ameniti...
€210,000
Trabia, Sicily, Italy
A secluded and spacious villa in the seaside town of Trabia just 1 km from the sea. This beautiful villa has an abundance of outside space and terraces to enjoy the mild all-year round climate on this beautiful island.
€150,000
Belmonte Mezzagno, Sicily, Italy
This imposing 5 bedroom, spacious Villa is immersed in the valleys of Belmonte Mezzagno, just outside Palermo and just 9 kms from the actual village of Belmonte Mezzagno. This beautiful villa with surrounding gardens and private swimming pool has bee...
€540,000
Trabia, Sicily, Italy
This charming top floor apartment of circa 80 m2 boasts its own outside garden for al-fresco living. It is perfectly located in the quaint seaside town of Trabia, just on the outskirts of Sicily's bustling capital city, Palermo.
€89,000
Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Large villa for sale in Termini Imerese (Pa), in the city center, between via Taormina and via Caltanissetta and just 800m from the tourist port, used as holiday apartments/B&B. The 1,800 square meters building is split over five levels and equipp...
€1,800,000
Palermo, Sicily, Italy
A spacious and well laid out Villa in Mondello, Palermo's most renowned and trendy seaside location on the North coast of Sicily. Palermo International airport is less than 30 mins drive away.
€950,000
Taormina, Sicily, Italy
A stunning brand new contemporary development of apartments in Taormina. These dwellings have a swimming pool, bright glass windows with steel fixtures and balconies, a sea view and parking space.
€755,000
Taormina, Sicily, Italy
A stunning brand new contemporary development of apartments in Taormina. These dwellings have a swimming pool, bright glass windows with steel fixtures and balconies, a sea view and parking space.
€675,000
San Vito Lo Capo, Sicily, Italy
In the hills, just above Castellammare del Golfo on the North Coast of Sicily and less than 1 hour drive to the bustling capital Palermo, is this immaculately presented 5 bedroom detached villa. This 2 storey villa provides jaw-dropping sea views f...
€700,000
Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Spacious detached two storey Villa in Villagrazie di Carini, on the outskirts of the bustling capital, Palermo and close to the Poseidon shopping centre. The beach is a short 10 minute walk away.
€290,000
San Vito Lo Capo, Sicily, Italy
These well proportioned independent Villas are located in Scopello, Castellammare del Golfo on the north West coast of Sicily. The sale if for one of a number of newly built Villas in the exquisite countryside around Scoppello.
€390,000
San Vito Lo Capo, Sicily, Italy
A stunning and contemporary 4 bedroom detached villa of approx. 216m2, located in Larga Fraginesi, Castellammare del Golfo affording fantastic panoramic views of the sea.
€520,000
Taormina, Sicily, Italy
Right in the centre of Taormina and just a few minutes walk from Porta Messina, is on offer a two-room apartment with a large veranda and terrace providing spectacular sea views and views over the town. This well presented property consists of a liv...
€175,000
San Vito Lo Capo, Sicily, Italy
A beautiful Vila with surrounding outdoor space in the popular seaside resort of San Vito Lo Capo in Northern Sicily. The villa is approx 70 m2 with 210 m2 of surrounding private and enclosed garden area, bringing the outside area in and providing p
€280,000
Casteldaccia, Sicily, Italy
A 4 storey villa with garden and terraces in Casteldaccia, near Palermo in Sicily. The villa is spread over 4 floors and is currently used as a single residential unit, but is suitable into being divided into 2 independent units, each with their ow...
€380,000
San Vito Lo Capo, Sicily, Italy
An opportunity to buy in to an exclusive project of single-family villas in this newly built residential complex. These elegant modern villas located just outside Castellamare del Golfo and close to Scopello beach in North Western Sicily integrate p
€500,000
Trapani, Sicily, Italy
A splendid villa with surrounding land at the "Residence Ulivi" located in Castelluzzo in North West Sicily, close to the popular seaside resort of San Vito Lo Capo and the city of Trapani and just one hour's drive to Palermo International airport. ...
€190,000
Giardini-Naxos, Sicily, Italy
A 2 bedroom seafront apartment on the beautiful Tysandros promenade, in the heart of Giardini Naxos. This ideally located seafront property provides 80m2 of living space with balconies overlooking the sea and is a short distance from Sicily's main to...
€225,000
Lascari, Sicily, Italy
A spacious newbuild 120m2 Villa that is just 900 meters from the sea and Salinelle Beach. The Villa is just 2 kms from Lascari Center and 15 kms from the popular seaside town of Cefal .
€165,000
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.