Four Aussie mates buy $1.63 home in Italy to escape house prices

Four young Aussie mates sick of sky-high house prices have ditched Australia and snapped up a home in Italy for just $1.63. Best mates Miles, Ricky, Jack and Riley have walked away from the grim reality of trying to buy in Australia, instead taking a chance on a crumbling €1 property in Sicily. Their bold move has already struck a nerve online, with the group’s renovation journey pulling more than 11 million views across 16 Instagram videos and helping them build a following of nearly 300,000 since launching the account late last month. “We are four best mates from Australia who got fed up with house prices. We thought there must be a better way,” they said in one viral post. “We jumped on a plane to Italy to find out if you could really get a house for €1.” MORE NEWS The wild family gamble that changed everything ‘Third-world’: Bleak photo shames booming suburb Driver baffles with bizarre Bunnings car load Four Aussie mates quit Australia for a regional town in Italy. Photo: Instagram/theoneeurodream Turns out they could – but what they found was a long way from a dream home. After hiring a car and inspecting properties across Sicily and the mainland, the four friends came face-to...