Stunning Villa Rental B&B Business In Marche Italy For Sale

Business description

This majestic 10 bedroomed 400m2 Italian villa was completely rebuilt and restored in 2006, the Villa has been converted into four spacious, self-catering apartments covering 350m2 plus 70m2 for storage or further development.

Together with the pool, vineyard and gardens, the property sits in 8 acres of rolling Italian farmland that benefits from stunning views of the fantastic medieval town of Sarnano and the Sibillini National Park, both of which lie in the Le Marche Region less than 2km from the villa. The holiday rental business for sale consists of a restored farmhouse and barn.

There are two lovely three bedroom apartments and two stylish two bedroom apartments. It has been signed off as a "casa and appartamenti in affitto" and currently runs as a very successful tourism business attracting guests from all over the globe. En-suite rooms can also be rented on a room only basis. In fact it can cater for any party from 2 to 28 people.

A highly visible website plus great trip advisor reviews ensure that this business is highly successful with great income and is a great buy for someone who wishes to live the dolce vita without risk.

Property information

Real Estate:

Real Property Included

Living accommodation:

We live in one of the apartments but in recent years have rented a place in town for the peak months of the year, as each month we do this generates an extra €5000 in revenue.

Location:

This large property is located in the commune of Sarnano in the province of Macerata surrounded by farmland and woods and with views towards the Monti Sibillini. The Villa lies 1 kilometre from the Sibillini National park that protects the wildlife and medieval villages in this beautiful and dramatic stretch of the Apennine Mountains. The nearby hills and mountains are the ideal setting for an Italian walking holiday or cycling holiday.
The village of Sarnano is one of Italys most beautifyul villages and has yearround tourism thanks to the Terme, the ski resort, its climate, the 20+ ristorante, bars, shops plus its proximity to great scenery, lakes, the sea and many beautiful medieval towns.

Premises details:

The present owners have supervised the restoration work, which is to anti-seismiuc standards, and the house is in good condition. The building, which has been divided into 4 independent apartments, is L shaped with the 2 wings joined by an internal courtyard with an attractive archway looking out towards the town of Sarnano on its nearby hill. The south wing has 2 floors and 2 apartments. On the ground floor is a large lounge/dining area, a kitchen and 2 double bedrooms with en suite bathrooms. On the first floor, reached by an independent staircase the apartment has a lounge, a kitchen/dining area, 2 double bedrooms and 1 bathroom. It also has a balcony above the internal courtyard. The north wing is on 3 floors, with the ground floor occupied by a wine cellar, the communal laundry room and storage rooms. The first floor apartment has a kitchen, a lounge/dining area, 3 bedrooms and 1 bathroom. The second floor apartment has an open plan kitchen/living/dining area, 1 double bedroom with en suite and 2 other bedrooms, which share the second bathroom.
There are stand-alone wood-burning stoves in the south wing apartments and in the north wing there is a state of the art wood burning boiler which provides central heating and hot water in the winter months, with a gas boiler for hot water production in summer time.
All 4 apartments are wired for the internet.
Features:

The villa
4 rental apartments
Rural location
Vineyard
14 metre pool
Mountain views
Wired for internet
1h20 to airport

Grounds and services.

The property is on a plot of 2,9 hectares or about 7 acres, and has its own productive vineyard. The external porticoes, one of which has a traditional bread oven, and the paved area around the heated pool provide ample space for outdoor living and eating. The views from the pool area across to Sarnano and the Monti Sibillini are particularly attractive.

Mains water and electricity are laid on, LPG gas for heating and cooking is stored in an underground tank.

The very typical and attractive town of Sarnano, with shops and all amenities, is just 1 km away and Ancona airport, with direct flights to Milan and London, can be reached in about 1 hour and 20 minutes.

Size in square feet:

4,000

Planning consent:

all plans and douments signed off and legal

Business Operation

Expansion potential:

The ground floor cantinas are currently store rooms and could be converted into another 2 bedroom apartment.
We have considered other ventures such as painting or art holidays, walking holidays, wine tours, weddings, or even a restaurant and have received a number requests for these, but decided that we were happy with our income and workloads. However, there is undoubtedly a market for these opportunities and the web site's capabilities lends itself to positioning any business in a very prominent position if you decided that you wished to extend the booking period and/or add value to holidays. For instance we attract traffic for hiking holidays and outlet shoppers and know that we should exploit this opportunity better. We have just made an agreement with the local Roman ruins at Urbisaglia to bring tourists to do excavations, the archeological site will provide transport and also arrange historical tours of the region in return for the free labour, we now need to finalise details and publicise it.
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> The land could also be used more productively, at present 2 hectares is rented for €250 per annum, whereas the 100 vines that cover a small area (350m2) should yield 700 litres of wine and I've calculated that there's room for a further 5000 vines if we get thirsty, which could potentially yield 6 or 7 litres a vine, or say 35000 litres or 46000 bottles. I've done quite a bit of research on the best varieties for this altitude and position and found a great local supplier for quality vines of all varieties at around €1 a plant. There is also an opportunity to host advertising on the site as the traffic is high the value of the site and clicks that arise from ads increase- see this SEM rush report for VSR on the subject

Competition / Market:

Whilst there is much colmpetition in the local rental marketplace, we punch above our weight and are probably the most successful rental property in the region. Marketing Once the site was established we ensured that clients started writing about us, creating a buzz on sites such as tripadvisor. We built up a linking strategy and now have 820 links from sites with good reputations and page rank (see explanation below) that boost our "authority" with Google We tried Google adwords but soon stopped it as it made ever increasing financial demands, instead we built any successful keyword into our own site. We have optimised Google places and Google maps as this is ever important and features on page one of Google now for location based searches (Try "holiday villa le marche" and you will see VSR in position A on the map) We are using youtube, social media & PR sites to increase publicity We changed our site to an end user friendly CMS system using Joomla software as this is very easy for us to use and very Google friendly The success of our own site has reduced our dependence on paid advertising. Management Information Results Here is some of the key data relating to the site: There are now 213000000 web sites in the world. In terms of traffic/visitors our site is currently 1,100,000th/ in top 0.26% of all world sites based on ALEXA site ranking system We also have an Italian language site that has a 2200000 alexa rank and 4200 visitors a year The quality of the site content site combined with the number of links has given us a very good or great Google Page Rank of 6 Unbelievably, we have the same Google page rank as the likes of www.marksandspencer.com and http://www.arsenal.com We received over 34000 site visits in 2010, up 25% on the previous year. See attached VSR site traffic spreadsheet. Our site visitors come from the following sources: 11.9% arrive directly 18.67% arrive via referral sites (following a link in one of the 750 sites above) 69.81% of our traffic arrives via search engines and 98% of this is from Google Our web site continues to rise in visibility and traffic and is now very low maintenance. I have recently run a ranktracker report which shows the following: The "organic" (not via adwords) position of VSR site for our critical 160 keywords across 4 search engines (so 640 results) We are in search engine position one for 25% or 173 results We are on page one for 75% or 480 results We are within the first 2 pages for 89% of results We are within the first 10 search engine pages for the remaining 10%

Reasons for selling:

we have thought about it long and hard and still don't know if we are doing the right thing, but we missed family and friends, our parents are not getting any younger and we felt that it would be good to give the children a taste of English life and their 20 cousins after 7 years here. If we could afford to keep the place and also start life again in the UK we surely would, as the villa gives us such a relaxed way of life and a great income, we feel we are fully ensconsed in the local community and are really reaping the cumulative benefits from our toils. Sharon has moved back to the UK and is there during term time where we all live with my parents, I am in Italy from April to October and obviously this time apart is unhealthy (although we have great friends in Italy as well and I keep myself busy hiking, biking and at the local hostelries) Sharon is studying human nutrition at Uni and the children are 14 and 16 and likely to continue education. The move back will be difficult as property prices are comparitively still high and I dont know whether I will return to Project Management or SEO. The whole family have had, and continue to have a wonderful time here and the richness of the experience in terms of culture, a sense of achievement and satisfaction and the friends and skills that we have made never cease to give us contentment. The children have probably benefitted more than us as they are now fully bilingual and have had the most amazing life and had to live in great hardship on site during the project and then learn to be ambassadors for our business; Grace (14) is now studying 5 languages, the highly structured appoach to Italian grammar standing her in great stead. If we sell we do so with heavy hearts!

Trading hours:

all year

Employees:

0

Years established:

2008

Other information

Support & training:

handover training for web site and property as required

Furniture / Fixtures value:

€50,000 (included in the asking price)

Website:

Please click here to view the link

Related documents:

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• Ground fl;oor plans

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• 1st floor plans

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• 2nd floor plans

Home based:

This business can be run from home.