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Palazzo Tornabuoni

Via Tornabuoni, Florence. A Medici palace of 1400s made Italy's first private residence club, run by Four Seasons.

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A Medici palace sold in eighths. Fingen's property arm and the Washington firm Kitebrook spent five years restoring the fifteenth-century Palazzo Tornabuoni — frescoes, statues and a whole city block of it — into 38 residences with interiors by Michele Bonan, managed by Four Seasons: Italy's first private residence club, where members bought one-eighth fractions and gained memberships of the city's tennis and riding clubs with them.

Later the model changed: after the first phase sold out, 18 residences were released for whole ownership at EUR 1.6 to 5.1 million. The opening is 2007 in one account and April 2009 in another; the register records both. The reports named the palace without a country.

Who it is not for

Not for a buyer who wants sole ownership by default: most residences here are fractional club shares.

Sources

  • casestudies.uli.org (the restoration of the 15th-century palace as 38 residences with retail and restaurant space, occupying a full city block; the first private residence club in Italy; developers Kitewood Partners and R.D.M. Real Estate Development
  • sherpareport.com 07.04.2009 (managed by Four Seasons; each member owning a one-eighth fraction of a residence; club room, library and cigar room, spa, private wine cellar, 24-hour concierge; automatic membership of Florence's Circolo del Tennis and the Centro Ippico Toscano
  • elitetraveler.com (developed by RDM, the real estate division of Fingen, with Kitebrook Partners of Washington; five years of restoration with the Tuscan interior designer Michele Bonan; a second phase releasing whole-ownership apartments after the first sold out
  • italialiving.com (18 whole-ownership residences released at EUR 1.6 to 5.1 million, one to two bedrooms of 700 to nearly 3,000 sq ft; the club opened in 2007 and fractionalised into one-eighth shares in 36 apartments
  • italialiving.com — the world's first 'Palace Residence Club' (opened April 2009; a joint venture of RDM and J. Byrne Murphy
  • fingen.it (38 apartments — 27 Private Residences and 11 Club Residences — with statues and frescoes preserved
  • palazzotornabuoni.com (the club in its sixteenth year of operation
  • Knight Frank, The Residence Report 2025-2026, p. 9 (named as 'Palazzo Tornabuoni'
  • Savills, Spotlight Branded Residences 2018, p. 6 (named as 'Palazzo Tornabuoni')

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Classified by The Resort Collection House · Edition 2026 · PR-D-397

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23.09.2026 · No country given, run 5 — a Medici palace sold in eighths, and a defence ministry turned into homes

Palazzo Tornabuoni in Florence is a fifteenth-century Medici palace restored over five years into 38 residences run by Four Seasons — Italy's first private residence club, where members bought one-eighth fractions before 18 whole-ownership homes were released at EUR 1.6 to 5.1 million. The Maybourne Saint-Germain turns the seventeenth-century Îlot Saint-Germain, long the French defence ministry's headquarters, into a 101-key hotel and 23 residences for 2027, drawn by Pierre-Yves Rochon and Laura Gonzalez.

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Investment migration — the facts the rule turns on

The rule for Italy: No property route — checked 24.09.2026.

Entry priceNot established23.09.2026 · searched in the record's sources; not published
SellerNot established23.09.2026 · searched in the record's sources; not published

The register publishes the facts and the rule; it does not say whether any purchase qualifies. Eligibility attaches to a sale, not to a building, and the register is not immigration counsel.