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Purchase offer template for Italy

Irrevocable offer to purchase a propertyProposta irrevocabile d'acquisto di immobile

The buyer's signed written offer to buy a named property at a stated price, binding on the buyer until a fixed date. If the seller accepts it and the buyer learns of the acceptance, the contract is formed. An accepted offer with full terms already works as a preliminary contract.

Use it after a visit, when you want to buy and want to fix your price and conditions in writing. Agents in Italy usually ask for an offer on their own form. You can use this text instead, or compare the agent's form with it. Sign it only if you are ready to buy on these terms: you cannot withdraw it before the date you set, and the seller's acceptance can bind you as firmly as a preliminary contract.

Reviewed October 28, 2026. Not legal advice. Have a notary or lawyer check your case before you sign.

Key facts

Applies to
Whole country
Binding period
The buyer cannot revoke the offer before the date stated in it (Codice civile art. 1329).
When the contract is formed
When the buyer learns of the seller's acceptance (Codice civile art. 1326).
Effect of acceptance
An accepted offer with full terms is a preliminary contract. Its clauses then govern the sale (Notariato guide).
Agent's commission
Due from each party when the deal is concluded through the agent (Codice civile art. 1755). Acceptance usually concludes the deal.
Registration deadline
Within 30 days, by the agent, if the accepted offer works as a preliminary contract (Agenzia delle Entrate guide, October 2025).
Registration cost
200 euro registration tax, 16 euro stamp duty per 4 pages, and 0.5% of any deposit (caparra) or advance on the price.
Deposit on acceptance
As caparra confirmatoria, the seller keeps it if the buyer defaults and repays double if the seller defaults (Codice civile art. 1385).

The document

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You sign the Italian version. The English version helps you understand it. Your answers fill both.

Irrevocable offer to purchase a property

  1. 1.Parties

    1. 1.1

      The undersigned Buyer's details, hereinafter "the offeror",

      Give each buyer's full name, place and date of birth, address and tax code (codice fiscale). A foreign buyer needs an Italian codice fiscale.

    2. 1.2

      offers to Seller's full name, hereinafter "the seller", through the estate agency Estate agency details, hereinafter "the broker", to buy the property described below, at the price and on the terms that follow.

      Name every owner in the cadastral record. Add the agency's Chamber of Commerce (REA) number. With no agent, delete those words and send the offer to the seller.

  2. 2.Property

    1. 2.1

      Full ownership of the property located at Full address of the property, consisting of Description, recorded in the buildings cadastre as follows: Cadastral data, in its current factual and legal condition, with the related condominium rights.

      Give the cadastral data of the home and each outbuilding. Get the cadastral record (visura catastale) and the floor plan from the agent before you sign.

  3. 3.Price and payment

    1. 3.1

      The offered price is Offered price in euros, in figures euros (Offered price in words), payable as follows: Deposit with the offer euros as a confirmatory deposit on acceptance of this offer; Payment at preliminary contract euros on signature of the preliminary contract; the balance on signature of the notarial deed of sale.

      If the figures and the words differ, a dispute follows. Pay every sum by traceable means: the deed must state how the price was paid.

  4. 4.Deposit with the offer

    1. 4.1

      Optional

      As security for this offer the offeror hands to the broker the non-transferable cheque no. Cheque number and bank, payable to the seller, for Deposit with the offer euros. The broker holds it without cashing it and hands it to the seller only on acceptance, when the sum becomes a confirmatory deposit under art. 1385 of the Civil Code.

      Keep it if the agent asks for a deposit, and keep the deposit small. Delete it if you pay nothing until the preliminary contract.

    2. 4.2

      Optional

      If the offer is not accepted within the stated period, the broker returns the cheque to the offeror without delay.

      Keep it together with the previous clause.

  5. 5.Conditions

    1. 5.1

      Optional

      The offer is subject to the condition precedent that the offeror obtains, by Date by which the loan must be approved, a mortgage loan of Loan amount euros. If the loan is not granted by that date, the contract has no effect and every sum paid is returned to the offeror without interest or penalty.

      Delete it only if you pay entirely from your own funds. Keep proof of the bank's refusal.

    2. 5.2

      The seller warrants that the property is in the seller's full and exclusive ownership, free of mortgages, attachments, adverse recorded entries, non-apparent easements and pre-emption rights, and that it will be handed over vacant at the date of the deed.

    3. 5.3

      The seller warrants that the property complies with planning and building rules and that the cadastral data and floor plans match its actual state, undertakes to deliver the energy performance certificate (APE), and declares that there are no overdue condominium charges and no extraordinary works already approved, except as follows: no exception.

      Replace "nessuna eccezione" with any known works or arrears. The buyer becomes jointly liable for the condominium charges of the current and previous year.

  6. 6.Preliminary contract and deed

    1. 6.1

      Optional

      If the offer is accepted, the parties sign the preliminary contract of sale by Latest date for preliminary contract, which repeats the terms of this offer.

      Delete it if the accepted offer will itself serve as the preliminary contract.

    2. 6.2

      The notarial deed of sale is signed by Latest date for the deed (rogito) before the notary Notary chosen by the buyer, chosen by the offeror, with payment of the balance of the price and handover of the property at the same time.

  7. 7.Broker's commission

    1. 7.1

      Optional

      The offeror agrees to pay the broker a commission of Agent's commission owed by the buyer, due on conclusion of the deal under art. 1755 of the Civil Code.

      Delete it if no agent is involved. You may agree that the commission is due only at the deed, but the agent must sign that change.

  8. 8.Irrevocability and acceptance

    1. 8.1

      This offer is irrevocable under art. 1329 of the Civil Code until the following time and date: Date and time the offer expires. If that time passes without the offeror having learned of the acceptance, the offer loses all effect.

      The Notariato advises the shortest possible period. You cannot withdraw before this date.

    2. 8.2

      Acceptance must be unconditional. Any acceptance with changes counts as a new offer from the seller.

  9. 9.Signatures

    1. 9.1

      Place and date: Place of signature, Date of signature. Signature of the offeror.

    2. 9.2

      Unconditional acceptance of the above offer, on Date the seller accepts. Signature of the seller.

      Every owner must sign. The contract is formed only when the offeror learns of the acceptance, so return a signed copy to the offeror.

Formalities

  1. No notary, witness or official form is required.
  2. Sign and date the offer. Give it to the agent or the seller against a dated receipt.
  3. The contract is formed when you learn of the seller's acceptance. The seller must sign the acceptance and send it back to you.
  4. If you give a deposit cheque, make it non-transferable and payable to the seller. The agent holds it until acceptance.
  5. If an agent is involved and the accepted offer has all the terms of a preliminary contract, the agent must register it with the Agenzia delle Entrate.
  6. An offer that is not yet accepted is not registered.

Common mistakes

  • Signing the agent's pre-printed form unread. Once the seller accepts, its clauses on payment dates, deposit and guarantees bind you as a preliminary contract.
  • Leaving out a mortgage condition when you need a loan. If the seller accepts and the bank refuses, you can lose the deposit.
  • Giving a large deposit with the offer. The money is blocked while the seller weighs other offers. The Notariato advises a small deposit and a short validity.
  • Making the deposit cheque payable to the agent, or paying in cash.
  • Not stating that the commission is due only if the deal completes. Under the Civil Code the agent earns it when the deal is concluded, usually at acceptance.
  • Describing the property without its cadastral data. Use the sheet, parcel and sub-unit numbers (foglio, particella, subalterno) from the cadastral record.

Legal basis

Sources

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