What the data tells us about an island reshaping its own map.
In 2025, foreign buyers spent 5.5 billion euros purchasing property in Italy — the highest figure in the past decade: up 10% from 2024, and 48% above 2019 levels (source: Scenari Immobiliari).
Within this context, Sardinia has grown from 1% to 9% of total international demand over ten years. Germany leads foreign purchases at around 70%, followed by the United States and Canada (10%), the United Kingdom (8%), France and Switzerland.
But the island is not a single market. It is two.
According to the Italy Market Report 2026 by Engel & Völkers and Nomisma, a new luxury villa in Porto Cervo’s exclusive residential areas costs between €8,000 and €15,000 per square metre today. Seafront properties exceed €20,000/m². At the top of the market, the most prestigious villas reach €47,000.
These are the numbers of a consolidated, mature market — and today, a saturated one. The Costa Smeralda remains the Mediterranean benchmark for luxury real estate, but those arriving now pay for a visual code already written. Exclusivity here is measured in price, not experience.
Less than two hours south, along the same coastline, the market reads differently.
In Ogliastra, on the island’s eastern coast, a new sea-view build in Tortolì or Baunei is priced today between €3,500 and €6,000/m². Turnkey, new construction — designed, built and managed directly by the developer. A third of the price of an equivalent property on the Costa Smeralda.
On one of the most unspoiled stretches of Mediterranean coastline. In one of the world’s five Blue Zones.
This is not coincidence. It is the result of a choice Ogliastra made decades ago: not to become a showcase neighbourhood, not to chase the August season, not to build beyond the territory’s own rules.
Ogliastra is one of the five Blue Zones on the planet — regions identified by National Geographic where people live the longest. It is home to Cala Goloritzé, ranked the world’s most beautiful beach by The World’s 50 Best Beaches. Here, sea and mountain share the same horizon: the coastline opens directly onto the Supramonte and Gennargentu.
The rarest asset, however, is something else entirely. Ogliastra’s villages are alive year-round. Restaurants open in February. Craft workshops that don’t close in September. Communities that recognise who arrives — and make room for them.
Buying in Ogliastra is not buying a summer retreat. It is buying access to a way of everyday life that has been forgotten elsewhere in Europe.
Edil Costa Sarda is a family of builders. We have been working in Ogliastra since 1998. In nearly thirty years, we have completed over thirteen projects and accompanied more than one hundred and fifty families in choosing their home by the sea.
We’re not an agency. We’re the builders themselves and your partner in Sardinia. We design, construct, and manage every stage — from the reservation to the deed, from personalizing finishes to assisting you long after the keys change hands. Bilingual contracts, tax code registration, document translation, utility connections, planning applications, tax advisory. And once the home is yours: a stocked fridge on arrival, a maintained garden, short-let management when you’re away.
We prefer to let the work speak. Not the promises.
International demand for Sardinia will continue to grow. In Ogliastra, prices are following that demand — not anticipating it. For those who choose today, there is a window that will not stay open for long.
We build here. And we stay here.
