🇮🇹 Italy
Moving to Turin
Turin is a grid of arcaded boulevards under the Alps, built as a royal capital and rebuilt as an industrial one, and it is markedly cheaper than Milan for a city of comparable seriousness. The lease types are the national ones — the 4+4 open-market contract, the canone concordato which caps the rent against a locally negotiated table and runs here in four lengths from 3+2 to 6+2, and a transitorio limited to eighteen months. What is local is the winter: the Po valley holds fog and pollution, and heating in a nineteenth-century block is a real line in the budget.
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The full guide
Everything else about moving to Turin
Five guides written for someone arriving rather than visiting — the housing market, the paperwork chain, healthcare, schools, and how to get around.
Where to live
Neighbourhoods in Turin
Your Insider walks these before they shortlist anything, and will tell you which one actually fits how you live.
Centro & Quadrilatero
Professionals, shorter staysInside the Roman grid: arcades, cafés, museums. Beautiful, central and the priciest per square metre in the city.
San Salvario
Younger arrivals, couplesBetween the station and the river — the most international quarter and the centre of the city's evenings.
Crocetta
Families, professionalsSouth-west of the centre by the Politecnico: elegant, residential, quiet, and the address Torinesi aspire to.
Vanchiglia & Aurora
Students, value seekersNorth-east towards the university. The cheapest rents within walking distance, and changing quickly.
Borgo Po & Gran Madre
FamiliesAcross the river under the hill: greener, calmer, and a short walk over the bridge into the centre.
What it costs to rent
Indicative rents
Indicative monthly asking ranges, often unfurnished, excluding condominio charges and utilities — check Immobiliare.it and Idealista for today's figures.
Indicative only, last checked . Rents move; your Insider confirms what the market is actually doing before you commit to anything.
What catches people out
The Turin traps
Every market has its own way of costing newcomers money. These are the ones worth knowing before you start.
Heating, and how it is billed
Most older blocks run one boiler for the whole building, but how you are charged depends on the equipment. Blocks with thermostatic valves and heat-cost allocators bill by consumption, and the city's own rent-scoring sheet treats that as the standard and penalises its absence. Ask which system the block has and for last winter's figures, because in a Turin winter it is a significant bill.
A contract that was never registered
Any lease longer than thirty days must be registered with the Agenzia delle Entrate within thirty days of signature. The duty falls on both parties and the cost is split in half unless agreed otherwise, so a landlord who will not register is not the end of it — you can register it yourself. An unregistered lease is void, and every tenant protection goes with it.
Condominio charges arriving separately
Lift, stairwell, porter and communal heating are billed apart from rent. Ask for last year's statement rather than an estimate.
Which contract you are being offered
The canone concordato caps the rent against the city's own table and is widely available here. Turin publishes it in four lengths — 3+2, 4+2, 5+2 and 6+2 — with the ceiling rising slightly as the term gets longer, so a longer guaranteed tenancy does not mean leaving the capped regime. A 4+4 at the open-market rate is a different and usually worse deal.
After the keys
The admin that follows a move
On Premium, your Insider does this with you rather than sending you a checklist. Timing in Turin: Four to six weeks for an EU arrival. Non-EU, closer to two or three months: the permesso is filed within eight working days of entry, and the post office receipt covers you while the Questura works through it. The codice fiscale is quick and comes first.
Codice fiscale first
Free, quick, and required before the lease, the bank account and the health service.
Residenza at the anagrafe
Register once the lease is registered. It unlocks the health card, the ID card and the residence permit process.
Utilities and the agency fee
Electricity and gas are yours to arrange. The agency fee is paid by the tenant and quoted either in months of rent or as a percentage of the annual rent, plus VAT — get the figure and the VAT treatment in writing before you view, and negotiate, because it is negotiable more often than agencies admit.
Ask about the classe energetica
The energy rating is on every listing by law and in this climate it is the difference between a manageable winter and an expensive one.
Language. Italian for leases, agencies and the anagrafe. English is common at the Politecnico and rare elsewhere. Your Insider works with you in English and negotiates on your behalf in whatever the lease is written in.
Pricing for Turin
What a move to Turin costs
These are the fees in Turin, published before you start. No commission on your rent, no percentage of the lease, no success fee.
Visit
Your Insider visits for you- In-person visit by a local Insider
- Video walkthrough
- Area report
- Scam check
Starter
Full home search- Personal shortlist
- Viewings with video
- Lease negotiation & review
- Handover & keys
- Milestone-protected payment
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Home search + full setup- Everything in Starter
- Bank, SIM & registration
- Utilities & internet
- Healthcare & school search
- First-week orientation
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Who you'd be working with in Turin
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