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Foreigners stage “positive invasion” of Sicily in one-euro home sale

RomeThomson Reuters Foundation Bargain hunters from Argentina to China swooped on a one-euro-auction and snapped up 16 abandoned Sicilian homes in a foreign buying frenzy that was heralded on Thursday as a positive invasion of a dying hilltop town. Selling homes for token sums has become a popular, last-ditch strategy for tumbledown towns in Italy’s […]