(Finance) – I am 108 nominations that the entities transmitted on the online platform created specifically by Invimit SGRa company 100% owned by the Ministry of Economy and Finance, for the OPA project, launched in June. The initiative, whose notice expired on 30 September, aims to purchase properties from local authorities and central administrations throughout the national territory to be used, in this first launch, for the construction of student residences.
With reference to territorial distributionthe majority of requests, i.e. 48 percent, come from Southern Italya with the primacy of Calabria, Campania and Puglia in terms of number of applications presented. Reggio Calabria, Salerno and Taranto were the most active cities in the South requests received from the North of the country they stood, however, at 41 percent, with Veneto, Piedmont, Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna among the regions with the most requests submitted. In the Piedmont case, for example, Alessandria is the city that has nominated the highest number of buildings, followed by Novara, Turin and Asti. Finally, decidedly smaller numbers were recorded by Center, in which requests were 11 percent of the total. Lazio is leading the way in this area, with a total of six nominations. Followed by Tuscany, Umbria, Marche and Abruzzo.
“With the Invimit student housing fund and in close collaboration with local administrations, we will provide a quality and sustainable response to students’ housing needs, improving the attractiveness of the Italian university offer from North to South”, he declared Nuccio Altieri, president of Invimit.
“Three months after the launch of the project, the response we have received from the territories is very positive – he declared Giovanna Della Posta, CEO of Invimit –. It is a project that makes us proud for several reasons: it allows us, in fact, to offer an opportunity to Local Authorities, which can give an effective and efficient response to the issue of student housing emergency with a positive impact also on public finances, and at the same time it allows us to provide an answer to national and international operators in the sector who want to invest in an asset class which offers important development potential in Italy.”