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The construction of efficient and safe buildings requires a clear and up-to-date regulatory framework to replace the current fragmented regulatory landscape, which hinders industry professionals and public administrations. For all these reasons, it is absolutely necessary to update the relevant building and construction standards so that they can be applied in the changed Italian and European context.

The decree-law represents an opportunity to give new impetus to the country’s economy through the administrative and bureaucratic simplifications necessary to access the resources provided by European funding instruments.

However, the measure under consideration does not adequately address the issue of urban planning and building code simplifications essential for the urban regeneration projects that our cities so desperately need. In the hope that the issue of building code ...

Assoimmobiliare believes it is necessary for this instrument to be extended not only over time and to other types of real estate (in addition to private residential properties) but, above all, to other categories of users, including real estate funds, real estate asset management companies, SIIQs, and others.

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Italian real estate market has been and continues to be extremely severe.

Confindustria Assoimmobiliare has identified six urgent and priority legislative measures capable of providing relief to the real estate sector by reducing costs for operators and helping the country’s economy recover.

Confindustria Assoimmobiliare is firmly convinced that the future of Italy’s urban fabric will increasingly depend on the ability to rethink and redesign the use of space, because the new urban reality cannot and must not be based on the consumption of new land but must stem from the renewal of the existing fabric. The process of urban regeneration has been made even more urgent by the health emergency triggered by the spread of the COVID-19 virus, which has impacted the way people ...

Energy efficiency and, in particular, building retrofitting are two closely linked processes whose synergistic development represents a growth opportunity for the entire country. The energy retrofitting of the building stock is, in fact, an essential component of promoting environmental sustainability in the economy, especially in Italy, where the building stock has characteristics that require significant investments to improve its energy efficiency. Urban regeneration represents not only ...

The decree-law in question represents a unique opportunity to be seized in order to give new impetus to the country’s economy, with a view to transforming the construction sector into a true driver of economic growth, leaving behind cumbersome and pointless bureaucratic requirements. Assoimmobiliare has welcomed the Government’s efforts to accelerate administrative and bureaucratic simplifications, which also intersect with the important Recovery Plan that the Government will need to ...

Conversion into law of Decree-Law No. 23 of April 8, 2020, containing urgent measures regarding access to credit and tax compliance for businesses, special powers in strategic sectors, as well as measures concerning health and labor, and the extension of administrative and procedural deadlines (the so-called “Liquidity Decree”).