(Finance) – It’s always there home the safe haven par excellence for Italian families and real estate investment the safest form of protection of savings of citizens. The data from the Fiaip National Real Estate Observatory report show in 2022 levels of buying and selling in the residential sector that hadn’t been recorded for over twenty years (+3.5% compared to 2021, equal to 775 thousand total transactions). Market values were substantially stationary, except for increases in large urban centers (+5/10%), generated by a demand that remains high in the face of an increasingly reduced supply, both in relation to sales and rentals. For non-residential use, on the other hand, a trend was recorded in sales (shops +0.5% offices -0.1% warehouses -0.3%) and in prices (shops +0.2%, offices +0 .1% and sheds -0.8%) substantially on the same line as in 2021.
Accompanied by a Focus on energy efficiency in the real estate sectorcreated 10 years ago in collaboration with ENEA and I-Com (Institute for Competitiveness), the report was presented today in Rome at the Temple of Hadrian by Francesco La Commare, President of the Fiaip Study Center, together with Ilaria Bertini, Director of the ENEA Department of Energy Efficiency, and Franco D’Amore, Vice President of I-Com with the final considerations of the National President of Fiaip Gian Battista Baccarini.
To follow, the round table entitled “Green houses and energy requalification – New scenarios for the challenge of the energy transition of the real estate assets” which was attended by the National President of Fiaip Gian Battista Baccarini, the President of I-Com Stefano da Empoli, the Director of the ENEA Department of Energy Efficiency Ilaria Bertini, the Deputy Director General of ABI Gianfranco Torriero and the Honorary President of Auxilia Finance Spa Paolo Righi .
The event also saw the participation of the Deputy Minister of the Environment and Energy Security Vania Gava and the President of OPMI (Parliamentary Observatory of the Real Estate Market) Catia Polidori and the Deputy Group Leader of the Democratic Party Piero De Luca.
From the Focus on Energy Efficiency it emerged that 70% of new buildings are in the first two energy classes (A and B), just as there was a + 10% compared to 2021 of renovated properties in the best energy classes. Furthermore, 56% of the sample of about 600 real estate agents interviewed believe that in the purchase of a property there is the right awareness of the importance of energy efficiency, while 58% believe that the EPA (Energy Performance Certificate) helps to guide users’ choices towards buildings with better energy quality. Finally, for 57% of the interviewees, the Superbonus 110% tool definitely had a significant influence on the virtuous dynamism of the real estate market.
“The real estate market confirms its significant growth in 2022 with rising market values in large urban centres”, underlines the President of the Fiaip Study Center Francis La Commare. “There is a worrying scarcity of houses both for sale and for rent, especially in university towns and cities with a strong tourist vocation, which could lead to a further rise in prices, but the prospects for 2023 remain positive mainly by virtue of the newfound convenience of the banks grant mortgages together with the huge liquidity accumulated by Italian families which will stimulate real estate investment not only oriented towards the purchase of the first home but also aimed at rental profitability”.
“Achieving the right energy transition within the timescales envisaged by European and national energy-climate policies requires a radical and rapid change of pace in the way we build, renovate and live in our inhabited space”, comments the I-Com Vice President Frank D’Amore. “All of this will require a new perspective in which the energy efficiency of buildings must be seen as an investment to increase the value of properties and maintain purchasing power through the reduction of energy costs. This process obviously needs to be accompanied and supported to avoid creating distortions and widening the social gap between citizens. The amount of resources required will require the development of financial instruments which allow for the activation of a virtuous cycle of investments which can be repaid over time with the savings obtained, thus overcoming the incentive logic which, in the long run, is no longer sustainable”.
“The centrality of the civil sector in our country’s final energy consumption requires a widespread and decisive action to improve the energy efficiency of the Italian real estate stock”, comments the Director of the ENEA Department of Energy Efficiency Ilaria Bertini. “ENEA, in its role as National Agency for Energy Efficiency, has always been at the side of national and local institutions to offer its technical-scientific contribution and better direct policies to support the development of energy efficiency in the sector. residential. Clear examples of this are the National Portal on the energy performance of buildings, which also offers the individual citizen useful information for orienting himself on investment opportunities for his own property, and the National Energy Efficiency Information and Training Program ‘Italy in Class A’ which will act as a driving force to intercept the demand for social innovation generated by sustainability policies. The Focus on energy efficiency is the result of a ten-year collaboration with Fiaip and I-Com, which makes it possible to align the commitment of public and private entities towards the common goal of sustainable transition”.
“The desire of Italians to own a more energy efficient and more seismically consolidated home is growing, as is the awareness of the importance of buying a less energy-intensive property, confirming the gradual, albeit slow, green real estate transition process decisively facilitated by tax incentives and energy price hikes,” he says Gian Battista Baccarini Fiaip National President. “A virtuous process which, however, risks being greatly slowed down both by the sudden elimination of the discount on the invoice, a measure which we believe should be gradually reconverted, and, even more, by the current formulation of the EU Energy Directive which, if not corrected, it will have devastating effects on the real estate market and therefore on the economy of our country, devaluing a large part of the properties with consequent impoverishment of Italian families and weakening of the most important and strategic guarantee of the national public debt, precisely the value of widespread real estate ownership”.
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