The highest asking price in Italy this week is 65 million euros, for a seafront villa near Porto Cervo. Below it, on the same September 2026 listings, come a cliffside house on the Amalfi Coast at 58 million, a compound of four villas at Cala di Volpe at 38, two lakefront villas at Como at 35 and 34, a former convent by the Quirinale at 30, and a run of Tuscan houses between 30 and 28. Here are the ten most expensive homes for sale in Italy with a published price, who is selling them, what the listings say when read line by line, and why the true top of the market is not on any list.
How the list was built
The rules are simple and they matter. Only homes: no hotels, no farms sold as businesses, no whole palazzi traded as investment lots, of which the Italian portals carry dozens between 30 and 450 million euros. Only published prices: “price on request”, which is how Italy Sotheby’s, Lionard and Engel and Völkers present much of their trophy stock, cannot be ranked, so a 2,500-square-metre estate at Laglio or a palazzo on the Grand Canal does not appear here whatever it may be worth. Only listings live on 26 September 2026, on the brokers’ own sites or on Immobiliare.it and Idealista, the two portals that sort by price. An asking price is what a seller hopes for. It is not a valuation, and a listing’s date, where the portal shows one, is as useful as its price.
| # | Asking price | Where | What | Size | Listed by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 65 million euros | Costa Smeralda, near Porto Cervo | Seafront villa, private berth | About 1,000 sq m, 1.25 ha | Sardasmeralda |
| 2 | 58 million euros | Amalfi Coast | Cliffside villa on three floors, 23 bedrooms | 1,700 sq m | Von Poll Real Estate |
| 3 | 38 million euros | Cala di Volpe, Costa Smeralda | Compound of four villas, dock on the bay | 800 sq m, park over 10,000 sq m | Immobiliare Europa |
| 4 | 35 million euros | Como, lakefront | Neoclassical villa of 1840, private dock | 1,500 sq m, 2,200 sq m garden | Lionard |
| 5 | 34 million euros | Lake Como | Historic villa, 17th-century jetty | 800 sq m, 1.35 ha park | Lionard |
| 6 | 30 million euros | Rome, Rione Trevi | Former convent with deconsecrated church | 3,535 sq m, 614 sq m garden | Lionard |
| 7 | 30 million euros | Forte dei Marmi, Roma Imperiale | Villa with annexes, pool | 1,050 sq m, 4,200 sq m plot | Don Marco Solution |
| 8 | 29 million euros | Florence, southern hills | Historic villa, chapel, guest house | 2,800 sq m, 7 ha park | Italy Sotheby’s International Realty |
| 9 | 29 million euros | Forte dei Marmi, Roma Imperiale | Villa with guest cottage, lift, pool | 850 sq m, 2,500 sq m plot | Don Marco Solution |
| 10 | 28 million euros | Massa Marittima, Maremma | Estate with vineyard and wellness centre | 2,700 sq m, 34 ha | Italy Sotheby’s and four other agencies |
Sardinia: 65 million at Porto Cervo, 38 at Cala di Volpe
The 65 million euro villa is listed by the agency Sardasmeralda on Immobiliare.it and Idealista, with the listing last updated on 29 August. The house has about 1,000 square metres of living space on roughly 1.25 hectares of seafront, a pool, direct private access to the sea and a private berth. Two lines in the listing deserve a careful read. The agency describes the sale as an off-market opportunity, and it states that every image is a rendering and does not show the actual villa. A buyer at this level will see the house before anything else happens, and the price will be tested then. A few kilometres south, Immobiliare Europa asks 38 million for a compound of four villas at Cala di Volpe, each with its own pool, on a park of more than 10,000 square metres with a small wooden dock on the bay. It is the largest single lot on the list and the only one that is really four houses. The runners-up are Sardinian too: a villa at Romazzino at 27 million, whose listing has not been updated since June 2025, and an 800-square-metre waterfront house at Porto Rotondo at 25. A private seller also asks 50 million for a villa still under construction at Porto Cervo, due in 2027; it is off-plan and not brokered, so it stays outside the ten.
Amalfi Coast: 58 million on a cliff
Von Poll Real Estate lists the second most expensive home in Italy at 58 million euros: a villa on three floors with 1,700 square metres, 23 bedrooms, 15 parking spaces, an infinity pool and terraced gardens of citrus, with frescoed vaults and original Vietri majolica floors, on a cliff above the sea. The two portals that carry it name different towns, Amalfi on one and Vietri sul Mare on the other, and the listing itself says only that the property is sold with full ownership as a single private villa. Twenty-three bedrooms is the number to think about. The listing does not say how the house has been used, and the next owner will decide what a house of that size on that coast is for. Further west, Lionard lists a waterfront villa at Positano at 26 million, built in 1963, with a guest house, a private mooring and direct access to the water. It sits just outside the ten.
Lake Como: 35 and 34 million, both through Lionard
Lionard, the Florentine brokerage, holds both Como entries. At 35 million euros, on Immobiliare.it and Idealista, is a neoclassical villa of 1840 on the lakefront at Como itself, with 1,500 square metres, seven bedrooms, a music room, an independent apartment, a private dock and a 2,200-square-metre garden. At 34 million, on Lionard’s own site, is a historic villa on the lake whose town the broker does not name: 800 square metres, seven bedrooms, frescoes from the early 1800s, a 17th-century jetty and dock, a guardian’s house and, in the 1.35-hectare park, a funerary temple of 1858. No published price on the lake is higher, and the reason is not a shortage of bigger houses. Italy Sotheby’s carries a 2,500-square-metre estate at Laglio and an 1,800-square-metre villa at Menaggio at price on request, and a villa on the hill at Brunate appears with at least two agencies at 20 and 21 million. The market above 35 million on Lake Como exists. It is simply conducted without a number on the page.
Rome, Florence and the Maremma
The Roman entry is a home only in the sense that it is sold as one. Lionard asks 30 million euros for a former convent of the Discalced Carmelites in Rione Trevi, near the Quirinale: 3,535 square metres on six levels, 40 bedrooms, 15 bathrooms, an internal courtyard, a 614-square-metre garden and a deconsecrated Baroque church completed in 1611 and rebuilt in 1683. The next Roman villa on our criteria is on the Appia Pignatelli at 22 million, with 5.8 hectares. In Florence, Italy Sotheby’s International Realty lists a historic villa in the hills south of the city at 29 million: 2,800 square metres in a seven-hectare park, 16 bedrooms, 20 bathrooms, a frescoed chapel, a pool, a tennis court, a cinema and a guest house. At Massa Marittima, in the Maremma, the same brokerage and four other agencies share a 28 million euro estate of 2,700 square metres on 34 hectares, with a vineyard, olive groves, a wine cellar, an artificial lake, a wellness centre and 17 bedrooms. One of the agencies notes that it operated as a hotel between 2003 and 2011. It is the entry on the list that looks most like a business.
Forte dei Marmi: 30 and 29 million in Roma Imperiale
Two listings from one agency, Don Marco Solution, both published on Idealista in August, put Forte dei Marmi in the ten twice. The 30 million euro villa in Roma Imperiale has 1,050 square metres of built space on a 4,200-square-metre plot, 15 bathrooms, a pool and a 1995 construction date, and sits between 500 and 800 metres from the beach; the listing notes that it can be divided into several apartments. The 29 million villa, built in 1990, has 850 square metres on four floors with a lift, a pool and a guest cottage on 2,500 square metres, and the listing says it currently earns from seasonal rentals. Both prices set a new ceiling for Versilia’s published listings, where the next villas stop at 20 million. Neither has a second agency or a second portal. They are the newest numbers on this list, and the ones the market has had the least time to answer.
What the top ten says about the market
Five of the ten are on the sea, two on a lake, three in Tuscany and Rome, and none in Milan or Venice. That is not because those cities are cheap. Engel and Völkers’ Market Report Italia 2026, prepared with Nomisma and presented in April, puts prime prices at up to 47,000 euros per square metre on the Costa Smeralda, 27,000 in central Milan, 25,000 at Portofino and Santa Margherita, 24,000 at Cortina and 20,000 in Venice and Courmayeur, and it counts international buyers at 35 percent of luxury purchases nationally, 52 percent in central Italy. In Milan and Venice the stock is apartments. The most expensive apartment in Milan with a published price this week is a penthouse in Brera at 15.7 million; in Venice, a duplex at San Marco at 12 million. A house on the water at Porto Cervo is a different asset from a floor of a palazzo, and the top of any Italian list will belong to the sea. The other reason the list stops at 65 million is that the real record is private. In April 2025, Italy Sotheby’s International Realty announced the sale of a villa at Romazzino, on the Costa Smeralda, for more than 160 million euros, and described it as the most expensive villa sold on the Costa Smeralda and in Italy. Two other large private sales reported by the Italian press this year, in Gallura and on Lake Como, have not been confirmed by the parties, so they stay off this page.
Read the price, then read the listing
Three habits protect a buyer at this level. First, read what the listing says the house is, because “villa” on a portal covers a former convent, a working wine estate and four houses on one park. Second, look at the date: portals show when a listing was last updated, and a price unchanged since 2025 is information. Third, count the agencies. Nine of the ten are with a single agency; the Massa Marittima estate is with five, all at the same 28 million, which at least fixes the number. None of this is a criticism of the sellers. It is how an asking price becomes a purchase price, and at 30 million euros the gap between the two is where the negotiation lives. For buyers arriving from abroad, and the market report says one in three is, the flat tax for new residents is the other number in the conversation.
The Luxury.it perspective
The list is a portrait of where Italy’s price ceiling sits in public: Sardinia first, the Amalfi Coast second, Lake Como third, and everything else below 30 million. It is also a portrait of how the very top of the market prefers to operate, which is without a published number. The 160 million euro sale at Romazzino in 2025 was announced only after it closed, and the 65 million villa at the top of this week’s list is presented, by the agency’s own note, through renderings. Between those two facts sits the whole Italian trophy market: a handful of houses, on the water, whose price is a conversation and whose listing, when there is one, is a door rather than a description. For anyone reading the list as a buyer, the useful number is not 65 million. It is 47,000 euros per square metre on the Costa Smeralda, because that is the figure the seller of the next villa will have in mind.
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