How much does an Italian cadastral floor plan cost?

Yes, for anyone entitled to it. The Italian Revenue Agency allows owners and holders of other real rights of enjoyment to consult and download documents relating to their own properties free of charge and exempt from fees, the floor plan included. You log in with SPID, the electronic identity card or the National Services Card and receive a PDF. The only case where a payment applies concerns copies of floor plans relating to superseded states or suppressed units held exclusively in the paper archives: there the fee is EUR 30.00 per copy, plus stamp duty.

Because they are reselling a retrieval service. Those portals are not applying a public tariff: they make on your behalf a request you could make yourself, and add a margin. That is not improper, but it helps to know you are paying for convenience rather than for the document. The distinction matters most to owners, since for them the document has no cost at all. Turning to a professional does make practical sense when the plan is needed for a property you do not hold rights over, or when you need the drawing interpreted rather than just supplied.

Only the owner, anyone holding another real right of enjoyment over the property, and an authorised representative. This is the main difference from the ordinary cadastral extract, which anyone may request: the floor plan shows the internal layout of a home, so access is restricted. Qualified professionals and public officials work through the Sister platform and must identify the rights holder by tax code. Someone buying a property therefore cannot obtain it independently: they have to ask the seller or be given written authorisation.

When the floor plan you need is not in the computerised database but only in the paper archives, and relates to a superseded state or a property unit that no longer exists. In that case EUR 30.00 is due per copy as a mortgage and cadastral services fee, plus the stamp duty applying to cadastral certifications. Two things are worth noting: the test is not how old the document is but what medium it is stored on, and the amount applies to each copy, so a historical reconstruction covering several states can cost a multiple of thirty euros.

No. A cadastral extract is a record of the property's identifying and classification data: sheet, parcel, sub-unit, category, cadastral income and registered holders. The floor plan is the technical drawing of the layout, to scale, showing how the rooms are distributed. They serve different purposes and follow different access rules: the extract is public and open to anyone, the floor plan is not. Property transactions often need both, because the extract states what the register holds and the floor plan lets you check whether the property as built matches what was filed.

That is not a question of what the document costs but of cadastral conformity, and it is exactly why the plan is worth obtaining long before completion. If the filed drawing does not reflect the property as built — a wall moved, a room whose use has changed, a mezzanine never declared — a cadastral variation is required. That is a separate procedure, needs a qualified surveyor, and costs something entirely different from the release of the drawing. The free document exists precisely so that you can find this out in time, while there is still room to put it right without stalling a sale.