Stop chasing listings. Let the right home find you.

No: they’re the ones coming free. We manage more than ninety let homes, and every listing says when the home is free, often a few months ahead. When a home is about to come free we offer it first to people whose profile fits, and only then does it go on the website and the portals. A profile is how you get there first.

Two or three months before the date you need the home, and earlier still if you’re arriving in summer or autumn: in 2024 and 2025, half of our contracts with private tenants started between July and October, with October and September at the top. Listings also go up many months in advance, so looking now isn’t too early.

Yes. Some listings have a 3D tour you can walk through as if you were inside. For the others, if the people living there now agree, we do a video call from the home, in Italian or English, and show you whatever you want to see: the light, the view, the bathroom, the stairs. If you sign without having seen it in person, the handover report with photos matters even more (see below).

Italian and English, spoken and written. The website is also in German and Slovenian, but if you write to us in any language other than Italian, we reply in English. The contract is an Italian contract: before you sign, we explain its main clauses in English, and the Italian text is the one that counts.

Not with a click and not with a payment: at the first step you pay nothing and sign nothing. The owner chooses among the people interested, and we present your application to them in good order. The real advantage is being ready: profile done, clear dates, guarantees stated up front. And be wary of anyone who asks you for money to hold a home before letting you read the contract.

It depends on how long you stay and why. These are the options:

• transitional lease (contratto transitorio, which we call “Flex” on the site), from 1 to 18 months, if there is a temporary reason that can be documented (work, relocation, study, medical care, a new home on the way…);
• university student lease, from 6 months to 3 years;
• 3+2 at regulated rent (canone concordato): three years plus two, with the rent within the public values of Trieste’s local rent agreements;
• 4+4 at open-market rent, for long stays;
• company lease (uso foresteria), if your employer signs the contract.

You don’t need to know in advance: we work it out from your timing. Since 2024 our residential leases have been transitional, 3+2 or company leases; there have been two 4+4s.

Yes, with a transitional lease: in Trieste it can last as little as one month, as long as there is a genuine temporary reason (see the next question). Since 2024, 15% of our contracts have lasted two months or less. These aren’t holiday lets: for a tourist stay, we’re not the right address.

One of those listed in Trieste’s local rent agreements: according to the City, two are in force today, the one of 14 December 2022, extended, and the one of 15 December 2025. In the 2025 agreement, the main ones for tenants are:

• a fixed-term job, a transfer or a temporary assignment, outside the municipality where you are resident;
• a freelance engagement or contract;
• medical treatment or care, for you or a family member, outside your municipality of residence;
• a course, internship or traineeship with a definite end date, outside your municipality of residence;
• a home of your own that will be ready within the term of the lease, or works that currently stop you living in it;
• a separation or divorce.

In both, one reason is enough, even if it is only the owner’s.

You prove it with a document attached to the contract (your letter of appointment, fixed-term contract, course enrolment, the preliminary contract for your new home) or with a self-certification (dichiarazione sostitutiva); for health reasons the self-certification is used, without details. Without a valid reason a transitional lease isn’t possible: we clarify this before searching, not after.

If you are enrolled in a degree or postgraduate course (master’s, PhD, specialisation, advanced course, Erasmus too) in a municipality other than the one where you are resident, there is the university student lease: from 6 months to 3 years, renewable at the first expiry unless you give notice between one and three months beforehand. It can be signed by a single student, a group of students or a body for the right to study. If instead you are a researcher, postdoc or visiting scholar with a fixed-term appointment, the route is a transitional lease for work.

Yes, if something serious happens. The law and the standard contracts speak of “serious reasons” (gravi motivi): new facts, beyond your control, that you couldn’t foresee when you signed, such as a job transfer. The notice period is written in the contract, which you read before signing:

• in a transitional lease the parties set it: in ours since 2024 it has been one month in almost three cases out of four, otherwise usually three;
• in a student lease it is three months;
• in a 3+2 or a 4+4 it is six months; a 4+4 may also let you leave whenever you like, still with six months’ notice;
• if a company signs the contract, many of ours let it leave at any time, with the notice stated.

Notice is given by registered letter, or by certified email (PEC) if the contract allows it, stating the reason.

A transitional lease ends on the date written in it, with no notice needed. If you need to stay, tell us two or three months ahead: with the owner a new contract is possible, transitional if there is still a temporary reason, or a 3+2. A 3+2 or a 4+4 renews automatically at its first expiry, for two and four years respectively, except in the cases where the law allows the owner to end it.

Yes to both. Before signing we send you the draft with rent, charges, deposit and notice period, so you have time to read it calmly and show it to whoever you like. After signing, if the contract lasts more than 30 days, we handle its registration with the Italian Revenue Agency within the 30 days the law allows: the landlord pays the costs of the paperwork, and you only pay your half of the tax and stamp duty, where they apply. You receive a copy of the registered contract. It’s the document you need for your residence registration, utilities and tax deductions: an unregistered lease protects nobody, you included.

Since 2024, the middle rent in our contracts with private tenants has been €850 a month: half of the contracts are between €700 and €1,100, eight out of ten between €580 and €1,335. These rents exclude building charges and utilities, which the contracts list separately. In contracts under the local rent agreements (3+2, transitional, student) the rent stays within public values that depend on the area, size and features of the home: the calculator shows them to you. Almost every listing states the home’s rent.

Usually, at signing:

• the first month’s rent, paid in advance;
• the security deposit: in our contracts since 2024 it has been two months’ rent in more than half of cases and one month in almost a third; by law it cannot exceed three;
• your half of the registration tax (2% of one year’s rent, or of the whole period if shorter, with a minimum of €67; less on a 3+2 and a student lease) and of the stamp duty (€16 for every sheet of each signed copy): nothing at all if the owner chooses the flat-rate rental tax (cedolare secca), as in the great majority of our contracts with private tenants;
• our agency fee: on temporary leases up to 18 months, 15% + VAT of the rent for the whole lease, with a minimum of €400 + VAT; on a 3+2 or 4+4, two months’ rent + VAT.

Where the listing has the “What it costs to move in” box, it does the sums with that home’s figures, agency fee included; for your own case there’s the calculator.

The agency fee is due only if the contract is signed: profile, viewings and requests cost nothing. It depends on the lease: on temporary leases, from 1 to 18 months, it is 15% + VAT of the rent for the whole lease, with a minimum of €400 + VAT; on a 3+2 or 4+4 it is two months’ rent + VAT. Before you sign we tell you the amount in euros, VAT included, and the listing already calculates it. We handle the registration and, where needed, the certificate of compliance with the local agreement, and the landlord pays their costs: you only pay the taxes required by law, half each, where they apply.

Three items; the building charges and any advance for utilities are written in the contract with the amount:

• building charges (spese condominiali): a fixed monthly amount, balanced at the end of the year or of the contract; in more than a third of our contracts that describe them, they include water or central heating;
• utilities (electricity, gas, sometimes internet): either they stay in the owner’s name and you pay a monthly advance balanced against the real bills, as in more than half of our transitional leases, or you put them in your own name;
• TARI, the waste tax: if you stay more than six months in the year it is yours; for shorter periods the owner owes it, and usually includes it in the charges.

When the listing doesn’t show the building charges, ask us before the viewing.

Only as written in the contract. If the owner has chosen the flat-rate rental tax (cedolare secca), as in the great majority of our contracts with private tenants, the ISTAT inflation update cannot be requested for as long as that option lasts: the rent stays as it is. Without the cedolare, in contracts under the local rent agreements (3+2, transitional, student) the update, if the contract provides for it, is requested in writing once a year from the second year, by no more than 75% of ISTAT inflation; in a 4+4 what the contract says applies. Rent higher than the amount written in the registered contract is not owed.

At the end, when you hand back the keys: you and the owner check the condition of the home and read the meters together, and your deposit comes back with statutory interest (1.60% a year in 2026), minus whatever it is fair to keep. By law it cannot exceed three months’ rent. The owner may keep only damage beyond normal wear, unpaid charges or bills and, if the contract provides for it, cleaning when the home isn’t returned in order. Balances that arrive later, such as the building’s annual accounts, are settled as the contract says. The photos from the handover are your best defence.

Yes. The tenant deductions apply to a registered contract, for the home where you have your registered residence and actually live; they don’t add up, you choose the most favourable:

• young people aged 20 to under 31, with income up to €15,493.71, in a home other than their parents’: 20% of the rent, from €991.60 to €2,000 a year, for the first four years;
• employees who move for work from at least 100 km away and from another region: €991.60 a year (€495.80 with income between €15,493.71 and €30,987.41), for the first three years;
• anyone with income up to €30,987.41: €300 or €150, which become €495.80 or €247.90 with a 3+2 at regulated rent.

University students living away from home, with the university at least 100 km away and in a different province from their residence, instead get 19% on rent of up to €2,633 a year (a deduction of up to about €500), with a transitional lease too, and even if the parent who supports them claims it; it doesn’t apply to master’s, PhD or specialisation courses, it shrinks above €120,000 of income, and the rent must be paid traceably. Deductions are claimed in the Italian tax return: a tax assistance centre (CAF) or an accountant checks them for your case. Anyone with a low ISEE (the Italian household means test) whose residence has been in the region for at least two years can instead apply for the City’s rent contribution, on the previous year’s rent, through a call published every year (it can’t be combined with the deductions).

None at the first step: your profile and a few answers are enough (when, how much, who will live there, what you do for a living, what guarantees you can offer). Documents come later, once the owner has said yes in principle:

• ID and Italian tax code (codice fiscale);
• proof of income: from a payslip we only need the employer, the type of contract and the net pay, you can cover the rest;
• proof of the reason for a transitional lease, or of university enrolment;
• the guarantor’s documents, if there is one.

We never ask about religion, origins, health or private matters: they have nothing to do with renting a home. If you are not an EU citizen, at signing we also ask for the document that entitles you to be in Italy (see the question on moving from abroad).

Often, yes. The owner cares about one thing: that the rent gets paid. Besides a payslip, these work:

• a guarantor, often a parent, who signs with you;
• a bank or insurance guarantee (fideiussione);
• a contract in the name of your employer or institution;
• if you’ve only just started, your offer letter or letter of appointment.

Say so straight away in your profile: that way we present your situation properly to the owner, who decides.

Two things, to start early:

• the Italian tax code (codice fiscale): without it the contract can’t be registered. A foreign citizen’s first code is requested in person, by appointment, at an office of the Italian Revenue Agency, or before you leave at the Italian consulate in your country (each consulate has its own rules and timings, and it can take weeks); for non-EU arrivals the Questura or the immigration desk (Sportello Unico) can also issue it, as part of the residence permit procedure;
• if you are not an EU citizen, at signing we need your passport and the document that entitles you to be in Italy: the residence permit or the receipt of your application, or your visa if you have just arrived. Within 48 hours the owner sends the Questura your passport details and address; with the registered contract, or with that notice, you then apply for the residence permit, if you don’t have it yet.

We explain in English what you need and in which order.

Yes: that’s the company lease (uso foresteria), which your employer signs for the staff or collaborators it sends to Trieste. We know it well: since 2024, more than one in four of our contracts has been in a company’s name. We need the company details and the names of the people who will live there; for a crew or a work team we can also look for several homes at once.

Yes, if the home really becomes the place where you habitually live: in Italian law, residence is a fact, where you live, and it doesn’t depend on the type of contract. On the City of Trieste’s form you state on what basis you live in the home: whoever signed the contract gives its registration details, the people living with them sign the same declaration, and without a valid basis residence isn’t granted. If the contract is in your company’s name, ask the registry office (Anagrafe) first which document it accepts. You file the declaration within 20 days of moving, by email, certified email (PEC), registered letter or at the counter (non-Italians attach the documents the form asks for); the City registers you within two working days and has 45 days to carry out its checks. Careful if you are a student living away from home: moving your residence to Trieste means losing the 19% deduction. If residence is essential for you (for a permit or a citizenship application), say so in your profile: we tell the owner before the viewing.

It depends on the home. In our transitional leases, when the contract mentions animals it is to ban them, and one in three explicitly bans smoking indoors. But not every owner says no. Mention it straight away in your profile (what animal, how big): that way we ask first, and you don’t waste time on pointless viewings. Building rules approved by the residents’ meeting cannot forbid keeping pets (art. 1138 of the Italian Civil Code): the yes or no is the owner’s, and we write it in the contract.

Having friends and family to stay is fine. If someone is moving in with you for good, tell us first and have it written down: our contracts usually forbid handing over the home, even in part, without the owner’s written consent, and the number of occupants also matters for the charges. The same goes for subletting, the whole home or a room: the standard contracts we use forbid it unless agreed in writing, and in transitional and student leases a breach can end the contract. If you host a non-EU citizen, you must notify the Questura within 48 hours: Italian immigration law requires it, and registering the contract is not enough.

For contracts under the local rent agreements (3+2, transitional, student) the table of ancillary charges in the ministerial decree of 16/01/2017 sets it out; for the others the Civil Code and the contract apply, with the same basic rule:

• small repairs due to use are yours: taps, locks and keys, broken glass, painting the walls, cleaning and the annual service of the boiler;
• extraordinary repairs and replacements are the owner’s: a boiler or water heater to replace, a system to redo or bring up to standard, and faults caused by age or by chance (art. 1609 of the Civil Code).

Whom to call is in the contacts we leave you at handover: the owner, or us if we manage the home. For work that falls to the owner, tell them before calling a technician: otherwise you may end up paying.

First you sign, then you move in. At handover we check the home, the furniture and the electricity, gas and water meters together, with the readings, and leave you the keys, the instructions for the systems and the emergency contacts. Our advice: photograph every defect, even a small one, and have it written in the report. Whatever isn’t written counts against you: without a description, Italian law presumes you received the home in good condition (art. 1590 of the Civil Code).

By giving written notice within the terms of the contract; a transitional lease simply ends on its date. When you leave, you and the owner go round the home and read the meters, with the handover report and photos, and your deposit comes back. To hand back the keys, get in touch: we are at Via Torino 34. Leave the home clean and as you found it: in one in four of our transitional leases, the contract provides for a cleaning charge if it isn’t.