Portale delle Vendite Pubbliche

The Portale delle Vendite Pubbliche (PVP) is operated by the Italian Ministry of Justice and is the official register on which judicial sales in Italy have to be advertised. Judges, court-delegated professionals, insolvency trustees, court-appointed custodians such as the judicial sale institutes (IVG) and authorised sale operators publish the notices; the Ministry owns no stock and runs no auction room. Its own wording sets the remit: sale notices for movable and immovable property from individual enforcement proceedings, creditor compositions with assignment of assets, bankruptcy liquidations and non-possessory pledges.

What you can buy

• Residential property: apartments, houses, villas and rural dwellings; occupancy status and the planning or cadastral position are left to the linked sale notice, which the listings repeatedly tell you to read.
• Commercial and industrial real estate: shops, offices, warehouses, workshops, hotels, sports halls and factory compounds.
• Land: building plots, agricultural parcels and parking spaces.
• Machinery and plant: metal and woodworking machines, packaging and printing lines, construction and farm equipment, lifting gear and medical devices.
• Vehicles and craft: passenger cars, commercial vans, motorcycles, boats and aircraft.
• Art and valuables: antiques, goldsmith work, watches and jewellery.
• Consumer goods: whole warehouse stocks of branded electronics and appliances, and single household lots starting near €100.
• Businesses and intangibles: going concerns and business leases, company shareholdings, trademarks, patents and assigned receivables.

How the bidding works

Searching is free and needs no account, and the interface runs in Italian, English or German. Filters cover macro category (property, movables, securities and receivables, businesses, other), detailed category and type, court, procedure number and year, starting price, listing number, free text and a radius around an address. Each notice carries the sale date, the offer deadline — usually the day before the sale — the starting price, the minimum acceptable offer, in most cases a minimum increment, the judge, trustee, delegated professional or sale operator responsible, and PDF attachments: the sale notice, plus the court expert's valuation on property files. Sale types include sale without auction, competitive sale, sale with auction and sale through a commissioner. The sale mode is either an online session, asynchronous or synchronous, or a session held in person at the seller's or the delegate's address. Where the sale is online, PVP shows a "Presenta un'offerta" button but states plainly that the offer is filed on the appointed sale operator's own site, not on the portal. Property lots may also carry a viewing-request button.

What to check before you bid

The portal is a bulletin board, not a curator: text is written by whichever professional handles the file, so depth varies, old records persist, and obvious date-entry errors sit among the results — sale dates of 3019, 2929 and 2202 are live, one carrying a published correction that admits the typo. Paperwork is the real barrier for buyers outside Italy: PVP documents only a CNS smart card for its own reserved area, and everything the electronic offer needs — identification, certified mail, digital signature, an Italian tax code — is handled on the sale operator's platform under ministerial rules, so read the notice, allow weeks, or use an Italian lawyer. The sale notice and the valuation are Italian-only whatever language the interface is set to. Deposits, buyer's fees, registration tax and VAT are not published on PVP at all; the only figure it states is the €100 publication contribution, which falls on the creditor, not the buyer. Property sells as-is, and occupied lots normally have a court-appointed custodian named on the page. Movable lots are collected at the seller's site, so the pickup address comes from the individual lot and not from the sale venue.