An Italian Footnote | 2025

By Filippo Martini

2024 was a busy year for yacht sales in Italy. It is a dynamic market full of exciting, high quality brokerage yachts and with clusters of fantastic yacht builders who deliver Italian enthusiasm and flair to yachts that come from our shores. I enjoyed my role as Berthon’s agent in Italy last year.

We are making good progress with the development of the Berthon Brand in Italy and our hard work is starting to bear fruit. We offer a truly international yacht sales service to Italian owners wishing to sell their yachts, using the Berthon marketing machine to market their yachts effectively on both sides of the Atlantic. Our clients have appreciated this service.

We have also introduced the Italian system of yacht purchase to Berthon, where the yacht owner pays the broker selling his yacht and the buyer pays the broker working for him on the buy side. This is not as complicated as it seems and has the advantage that both buyer and seller have brokers who are on their side of the deal taking care of their specific interests.

Of course, local taxes, registration and Italian regulations take a little getting used to and so working with Berthon in the Italian market together with my partner Gianfranco, enables Berthon buyers and sellers to have us on hand to navigate these hurdles and to enjoy a trouble free purchase with us.

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