{"id":896838,"date":"2026-04-04T09:21:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T14:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/what-can-you-do-about-rental-scams-in-italy\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T09:21:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T14:21:18","slug":"what-can-you-do-about-rental-scams-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/what-can-you-do-about-rental-scams-in-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"What can you do about rental scams in Italy?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Central location, great pictures, bargain price? You’re almost certainly looking at a fake Italian apartment listing. Photo by Marie-Laure MESSANA \/ AFP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\n From deposits not returned to fraudulent fees and even fake agencies, Italy’s rental market is notorious for scams. Is there anything you can actually do if you get stung?\n <\/p>\n

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\n I’ve heard from multiple people that foreigners very often have their deposit stolen at the end of a tenancy, probably because agencies know there are such low odds they will be able to do anything about it. It put me off renting. They were lucky it was only \u20ac500.\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Clare Speak – cl*********<\/span>@******<\/span>al.com<\/span> Published: 26 Mar, 2026 CET. Updated: Thu 26 Mar 2026 17:09 CET Central location, great pictures, bargain price? You’re almost certainly looking at a fake Italian apartment listing. Photo by Marie-Laure MESSANA \/ AFP From deposits not returned to fraudulent fees and even fake agencies, Italy’s rental market is notorious for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":896839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26750,30532],"tags":[16925,7707],"class_list":{"0":"post-896838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rental","8":"category-scams","9":"tag-rental","10":"tag-scams"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}