AffittaSardegna was founded in 2011 in Florence. Since 2018 its office has been in Porto Torres, and today it manages more than 300 holiday homes in over 30 places across northern Sardinia.
At that time, our life was there.
Edoardo had grown up in Sardinia until he finished school, then moved to Florence to study. He had graduated, started working and built his career.
I'm Souad, and I'm Moroccan. We met in Florence; we worked, bought a home and built a stable life.
We had permanent jobs. We had security. We had a path already mapped out. But Sardinia was never really far away.
AffittaSardegna was born around a table in our living room. At first we handled bookings for a few homes belonging to family and friends in northern Sardinia. We took care of everything personally: enquiries, organising stays, communicating with guests.
It was a side project alongside our life in the city. But season after season, that project grew. And with it grew a realisation: we didn't want to talk about Sardinia from afar. We wanted to live it.
With the birth of our first daughter, that question became real. What kind of life did we want to build for our family?
We decided to leave Florence, our permanent jobs and the certainties we had built over the years. We came back to Sardinia. It was November 2017; in March 2018 we set up the company.
We chose Porto Torres as our base, because here we had roots, family and the chance to build something lasting.
It wasn't a romantic move. It was a business plan and a family plan at the same time.
We wanted to live in northern Sardinia all year round, to truly understand the area and build direct relationships with owners and guests. From then on AffittaSardegna became a business rooted in the local area.
It hasn't been a straight path. We've been through changes in the law, shifts in the short-term rental market, three economic crises and the total shutdown of 2020.
We have always chosen to work by the rules, with transparency and a long-term view.
2011 — Florence
We start managing our first homes, belonging to family and friends in northern Sardinia, as self-employed professionals
2017 — In Sardinia
In November we move to Sardinia. The same year brings new tax rules for short-term lets, extending the cedolare secca (Italy's flat-rate tax on rental income) to short-term rentals too.
2018 — AffittaSardegna SRLS is founded
In March the company is founded; the same year we open our operational base in Porto Torres
2020 — Resilience
Tourism comes to a complete halt; we reorganise and hold firm
Today
Over 300 properties, more than 30 places, a permanent team, a street-front office
Today AffittaSardegna manages more than 300 properties in northern Sardinia, with a presence across Stintino, Porto Torres, Alghero, Castelsardo, Badesi, Costa Paradiso, Santa Teresa di Gallura, Palau, Porto Rotondo, Olbia, San Teodoro, Budoni, Orosei and Cala Gonone. Our operational base has been in Porto Torres since 2018. This is where we live. This is where we work. This is where we coordinate our team.
There were two of us at the start, with one computer and a lot of determination.
Today we have a street-front office in Porto Torres, a team of 5 permanent people all year round, seasonal staff in the high-season months and outside companies that work with us to ensure quality, maintenance and professional services.
We're not a distant platform. We're a family that chose to build, in northern Sardinia, a way of managing homes that is organised, professional and rooted in the local area.
AffittaSardegna has grown, but it remains what it has always been: a life choice, a project built with responsibility, a business that looks to the future without forgetting where it started.
— Souad, Edoardo and the AffittaSardegna team
We manage your property in northern Sardinia with the same care we put into building our own story.
