Following is a transcription of the video: Narrator: These are Italy's famous dollar homes. Gillian Sweeney: This bit here, I'm not gonna talk because there is a pigeon living in this bit.

Buying a home in the Italian countryside for cheap comes with a catch — in one case, to the tune of of nearly half a million dollars.

Imagine paying as little as 1 euro for a home. That's what happened in Italy a few years ago. The plan was to inject life and money back into dying towns. But for many foreign buyers, it wasn't ...