About Camillo Barone

Camillo Barone is one of the three founding partners and a senior property consultant at Salento Properties, the international platform of Mondo Immobiliare Lecce. Since 1994, Camillo has guided international buyers — from the UK, Germany, Netherlands and Scandinavia — through the Italian property purchase process.

Camillo is a registered member of FIMAA (Federazione Italiana Mediatori Agenti d’Affari) and is the primary point of contact for all English-language enquiries at both the Lecce and Porto Cesareo offices.

Specialisations

• Residential property sales in Lecce historic centre and province
• Coastal properties — Porto Cesareo, Gallipoli, Otranto (Ionian and Adriatic)
• Investment property for holiday rental income
• Masserie and rural properties in the Salento countryside
• 3D virtual tours and digital marketing for property vendors
• Guiding foreign buyers through Italian purchase law and bureaucracy

Experience & Credentials

FIMAA-registered agent · Founding partner of Mondo Immobiliare Lecce, active in the Salento property market since 1994 · Specialist in digital marketing, drone photography, and Matterport 3D virtual tours.

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Author of “Buying Property in Puglia”

Camillo is the author of Buying Property in Puglia: The Insider’s Guide to the Salento Real Estate Market — nineteen chapters drawn from his years of work in Lecce, Porto Cesareo and along the Ionian and Adriatic coasts: what to buy and what to avoid, the scams that target foreign buyers, the real numbers behind three completed purchases, visas and the 7% flat tax, renovation, and the honest arithmetic of the rental season. Kindle and paperback, on Amazon.

Articles by Camillo Barone

Camillo regularly writes guides for international buyers looking to purchase property in Salento, Puglia. His articles draw on first-hand market experience since 1994.