In Sardinia , 8 out of 10 homes were built more than 44 years ago: the homes are old, in poor health and, many, uninhabited. Out of 1,034,609 properties for residential use, only 722,186 are occupied by at least one person, 69.8%. On the contrary, 312,423 units are uninhabited, such as those in small towns undergoing depopulation, or used as second homes for holidays.
On the Island, not only is the population aging, but also the real estate assets that house it. This is what emerges from the analysis carried out by the Research Office of Confartigianato Imprese Sardegna, on the "Consistency and state of the island's real estate portfolio", examining the 2024 data from Enea, Siape and Istat.
The analysis on the “health” of the residential real estate stock also says that the total buildings, such as single-family homes, villas, townhouses, terraced houses, apartment buildings, condominiums, even with economic activities at street level, are in total over 500 thousand. More than 300 thousand were built before 1980 while almost 200 thousand are after this date.
Of the total of over 700 thousand occupied homes in Sardinia, 61.3%, 442,700 units, were built before 1980. The oldest in Italy are in Liguria, with 82.8% of homes built more than 40 years ago: Sardinia ranks 19th. The “youngest” are in Veneto with 58.7% built before 1980 against a national average of old homes of 68%.
"The age of the Sardinian building heritage is one of the main obstacles in the transition towards sustainable construction", comments Giacomo Meloni, President of Confartigianato Imprese Sardegna, "we are a region, like the rest of Italy, with old and inefficient houses. To remedy this situation there is no time to waste", continues the president, "so interventions must be implemented immediately to support the redevelopment of buildings with the objective, indicated by the U e Directive. To guarantee the green transition of buildings, we must at least make the 65% tax deductions stable and permanent".
