ROME, May 9 (Thomson 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 south, many of which are fighting de-population and decay.

The 16 stone homes were put on sale in January, each for the price of ….

Sorgente: Foreigners stage ‘positive invasion’ of Sicily in one-euro home sale – Reuters