Temporary lease in Trieste: which needs count and how to prove them

Which agreement applies, and which needs does it accept?

For the Comune there are two agreements in force (page updated on 26/08/2026): the one of 14/12/2022, extended by a protocol of 11/12/2025 for the organisations that signed it, and the one filed on 15/12/2025, which in article 1 declares that it replaces the earlier one "integralmente" (in full). Each agreement is certified by its own signatory or adhering organisations, and the lists of needs differ: before drafting the contract, ask whoever will issue the certificate (attestazione) which agreement they work under.

The needs in the 2025 agreement (point 3):

• WhoseLandlord

  home for you, your spouse, your children or family members living with you: marriage, civil union or cohabitation, end of a job with release of a service flat, study or work in a municipality other than the one of residence, separation

• WhoseLandlord

  starting a business or practice of yours, your spouse's, your children's or relatives' up to the second degree (office, workshop, surgery)

• WhoseLandlord

  building works incompatible with use, with the permit already applied for

• WhoseLandlord

  you are in hospital or living in a care home (residenza sanitaria assistenziale)

• WhoseTenantDifferent municipality of residence?yes

  fixed-term employment or quasi-employment, transfer or temporary assignment

• WhoseTenant

  temporary transfer for self-employed work or a contract job

• WhoseTenantDifferent municipality of residence?yes

  medical treatment or personal or family care

• WhoseTenantDifferent municipality of residence?yes

  study with a certain end date, training, internship, traineeship

• WhoseTenant

  a home bought, allocated or rented, available within the lease term

• WhoseTenant

  works that temporarily prevent use of one's main home

• WhoseTenantDifferent municipality of residence?yes

  election campaign

• WhoseTenant

  separation, divorce, end of a civil union or cohabitation

• WhoseEither

  another need tied to a certain event on a fixed date, stated and documented

The tenant must need the home for no more than 18 months. A university student enrolled outside their municipality of residence has a contract of their own, from 6 months to 3 years.

And under the 2022 agreement?

Title B of the 2022 agreement has different rules:

• an increase of up to 5% on the minimum and maximum values, "per favorire la mobilità sul territorio" (to encourage mobility); furniture adds up to 15%;
• residence in another municipality is required for fixed-term work and for an assignment or contract job, not for medical care or an election campaign;
• the landlord can also rely on renovation, a return from abroad or from another city, medical care or a transfer of the workplace, if within eighteen months the home will be needed by the landlord, their children or their parents;
• for cases outside the list or hard to document, the signatory landlords' and tenants' organisations certify the need and the support given, and the contract records it (point 12).

How is the need documented?

Article 2, paragraph 4 of the ministerial decree dated 16/01/2017 requires a specific statement of the need in the contract and, beyond 30 days, attached documentation; the 2025 agreement asks for the reasons "con precisione" (precisely). For example:

• work or assignment: the employment contract or the employer's letter, with dates;
• home on its way: the preliminary contract, the allocation or the lease of the new home, with the handover date;
• works: the building permit application already filed;
• medical care: the self-certification, not the medical certificate.

The self-certification is the one under articles 46 and 47 of DPR 445/2000: anyone who makes a false statement is punished under the criminal code (article 76). For needs outside the list or hard to prove, the decree provides for support from the signatory organisations (article 2, paragraph 5): ask for it before signing.

How much can you ask?

The rent stays within the bands of the agreement, because Trieste has more than 10,000 inhabitants, even if you do not choose the cedolare. The 2025 agreement allows temporary leases up to 20% more (point 9.3); all increases, furniture included, are added together and applied once to the minimum and maximum of the band.

Watch the kitchen: if it is not furnished and complete with oven, hob and fridge, the agreement rules out "alcuna maggiorazione" (any increase). The sentence sits in the paragraph on furniture: if you let unfurnished, ask whoever certifies whether it also applies to the 20%.

For leases of up to 30 days rent and service charges are free, and the need must be stated but not documented.

An example: a technician on a ten-month assignment

Assumptions: a technician resident in Genova is sent by his employer for ten months to a building site in Trieste, and the lease is in his name. Fully furnished flat, with the inventory of furniture attached, 70 m² of conventional floor area, zone 3, low band of the 2025 agreement.

1. Need: temporary assignment outside the municipality of residence; the employer's letter with dates is attached.
2. Band: from €4.20 to €7.10 per m² per month, i.e. 70 × 4.20 = €294 and 70 × 7.10 = €497 a month.
3. Increases: temporary lease 20% + full furniture 22% = 42%. 294 × 1.42 = €417.48; 497 × 1.42 = €705.74 a month.
4. Rent chosen: €650 a month, within the range: €6,500 over ten months.
5. Tax: with the 10% cedolare you pay €650. Without the certificate the reduced rate does not apply: with the ordinary 21% cedolare you would pay €1,365.

Cedolare, ILIA, certificate and registration

The 10% cedolare also applies to temporary leases at regulated rent (canone concordato), from one month to 18 months, in the municipalities listed by law, including provincial capitals: the Agenzia delle Entrate clarified this in circular 8/E of 2017. The Comune also cuts the ILIA (local property tax) to 75% for regulated temporary leases, with a registered contract and a declaration to Esatto SPA enclosing contract and certificate. You do not get the other two 3+2 breaks, which law 431/1998 (article 8) excludes for temporary leases: taxable income cut by a further 30% for IRPEF and registration tax on 70% of the rent.

If the lease is not signed with the organisations' assistance, you need the certificate from a signatory: for the Agenzia (resolution 31/E of 2018) it is an "elemento necessario" (necessary element) for the tax breaks. Under the 2025 agreement it is only valid with a qualified digital signature. Registration is due within 30 days of signing.

What happens if the need does not hold?

The 2017 decree (article 2, paragraph 6) brings the lease back to the length of a 4+4 if you do not follow the rules on duration, rent, statement and proof of the need. That means four years, renewed for another four save for the grounds in article 3 of law 431/1998: the home you wanted back in ten months may stay occupied for years.

And if at expiry you get the home back by declaring a specific use, but without good reason you do not put it to that use within six months, the tenant is entitled to have the lease restored on 4+4 terms or to compensation equal to 36 months of the last rent (ministerial model, Annex B, article 3). At €650 a month that is €23,400.