ROME - The house moves the votes. And the parties are worried about the millions of new owners who bought homes during the past legislature. As anticipated in the Sole-24 Ore of 2 April (see also the article below) the Censis annual housing report reports a notable increase in landlords, but Parliament's attention to the problem has been modest. To the point that the condominium reform law, after years of work, reached the threshold of approval only to fall into oblivion a few days before the end of the legislature. Yet we are talking about one million condominiums, where 23.4 million Italians live, 40% of the total: the data comes from another research, which Censis developed with Anaci, the national association of condominium administrators. A reality that always brings controversies and arguments, with significant growth between 2002 and 2003.
The second Censis-Anaci Report, which is presented today in Rome, at 5pm in Piazza Monte Citorio 131, defines for the first time with the seriousness of statistical tools a precise snapshot of the situation. According to the report, based on data from the 2001 Istat census, we can speak of 935,704 condominium buildings in Italy (out of a total of 11 million), where 9,366,741 families live.
But the most significant figure is that of properties with a tax code: 740 thousand in 2002, with an increase of 5.4% compared to 2001. A figure, according to the report, which seems to mark a transition, albeit slow, from a 'spurious' situation of a voluntaristic-family type to actual regularisation. Even the increase in the number of professional condominium administrators, detected on the basis of the 770 forms, which went from 35,684 in 2002 to 40,925 in 2003, with an increase of 14.7%, indicates a real anxiety for regularization. Note that these 41 thousand administrators manage 328 thousand condominiums, so the majority of buildings are still in the hands of very small studios or even willing condominium owners.
The data from the report on disputes is equally significant: of the Anaci administrators interviewed by Censis, 48% define disputes as "fairly frequent" and 15.6% even very frequent. What is striking, however, is the different perception of the variation in litigiousness: a strong increase according to 69.7% of the administrators, a decrease according to 73.9% of the justices of the peace interviewed. But the reason is simple: it is the administrators themselves who report that in 73% of cases the disputes started in the condominium are resolved amicably, 16% find conciliation after a few letters from the lawyers and only 11% actually reach court. As for the reasons for the dispute (see the graph above), the use of common areas and annoying noises come first, as expected. However, beyond perception, the Istat data processed by Censis show, however, a growth in civil proceedings from 2002 to 2003: under the heading "measures and methods of use of condominium services", obtained from data on justices of the peace, the proceedings which occurred between 2002 and 2003 went from 1,377 to 2,036 and those pending went from 1,592 to 2,049
source: Il Sole 24 Ore
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