How many homes sell in Friuli, town by town

The figures are from the OMI observatory of the Agenzia delle Entrate, Italy's revenue agency. Each deed is weighted by the share sold, so half a house counts as half a sale.

The four provincial capitals account for 6,729 sales, over a third of the total; Trieste alone makes up 90% of its province. Then comes the seaside: Lignano Sabbiadoro, with 6,888 residents, sells more homes than Gorizia, a city of 33,620.

On its 2025 map the agency places 145 of the 215 municipalities between 1 and 50 sales, 37 between 50 and 100 and 24 between 100 and 200; the smallest, it notes, lie mostly in the mountains, hills and foothills. Where a town's own figure is missing, the report often gives a ceiling:

• Carnia, 28 municipalities: apart from Tolmezzo, Sappada, Arta Terme, Forni di Sopra, Ravascletto and Paluzza, none exceeds 24 sales.
• Pedemontana: Bordano, Lusevera, Montenars, Taipana and Venzone stay at 21 or below.
• Canal del Ferro and Val Canale: beyond Tarvisio, Chiusaforte, Malborghetto, Moggio and Pontebba, none goes above 6.

At these volumes percentages jump: Trasaghis doubled to 32 sales, Sgonico fell to 16 (-23.8%). In a village, such a swing is a handful of deeds, not a trend.

To set a village beside a city, the agency uses the IMI, or market intensity: the share of existing homes sold during the year. The region stands at 2.4%, Udine at 3.0%.

Leading the table are towns of the plain and the hills, Montenars in the Pedemontana, and Tarvisio and Ravascletto in the mountains. But Chiopris-Viscone has 703 inhabitants and Montenars 498: a few sales are enough to rank high. Where a figure is published, the median is 2.1% in the mountains (31 of them) and 2.4% across the hills and plain (68).

White dots mark municipalities with no published IMI.

OMI districts group neighbouring, similar municipalities, including those without a figure of their own. In 2025 sales grew most away from the sea:

• Pedemontana (Gemona, Venzone, Bordano): +35%, 256 sales;
• Pordenone valleys, from the Valcellina to the Val d'Arzino: +27%, from 125 to 160;
• Natisone valleys and Cividale +21%, Destra Isonzo (right bank of the Isonzo) +21%;
• Udine's suburbs +15%, Canal del Ferro and Val Canale +15%.

The established markets stood still or slipped: Monfalcone and the Sinistra Isonzo -0.3%, the furniture district around Sacile -0.2%, Grado -4.7%. And more sales do not mean higher prices: in the Pedemontana the average value barely moved (how prices are moving).

The agency counts sales in all 215 municipalities, but prints the figure only for those it names in its regional report: 94, and 109 for the IMI. Its open files stop at provinces and provincial capitals. Town-level data is free on request with a login, but excludes the 43 municipalities under the land register (tavolare) system: all of the Trieste and Gorizia provinces and part of Udine's. There, the regional report is the only public number.

The list also leans towards busy markets: of the 15 municipalities where more than 3% of homes changed owner, the report names 11; of the 11 below 1%, only Erto e Casso. If your town is missing, look at its district instead.

Selling. Many sales mean a liquid market: more buyers about and more recent deals to measure a price against. With a few dozen a year the reverse holds: the right buyer has to be sought further afield, abroad included (who buys from outside); comparisons are scarce and the OMI range can sit unchanged for years (values town by town), so the house itself has to justify the price.

Buying. Where little sells, there are few recent prices to test an asking price against, and the market will be just as thin on the day you sell. That is not a flaw of the place; it is a factor to weigh, like the price.