Walk the alleys behind the parish church and you’ll pass doorways built wide enough for a cart, most of them still in the same families. Farmhouses for sale in Siggiewi come up in ones and twos: an unconverted razzett with a well in the yard, a finished conversion with a pool on the village edge, a walled holding with a few tumoli of fields out towards Girgenti. The village covers one of the largest boundaries on the island, so no two of them are really comparable.
Siggiewi
Available From · Aug 26, 2026
Ref | 31335 Siggiewi was a farming village for centuries before it was anything else, and the housing stock reflects that. Properties still come to market as unconverted shells with a yard, a well and a stone stair, usually sold by families who’ve held them for generations. Others have been half-restored and stopped, which can be the better buy if the structural work and the roof are already done.
The older parts of Siggiewi are inside the Urban Conservation Area, and some buildings carry a heritage grade of their own. That may affect what you can change on the façade, what you can do with apertures and balconies, and how the roof is treated. Any properties on the outskirts of the village are likely to fall outside the development zone, where the rules are tighter again. It’s worth a planning search through the Planning Authority before a promise of sale is signed, not after.
It is a good idea to work with an architect from early on so you can accurately estimate your budget. Conversion of older farm buildings often includes new services throughout, damp treatment, a roof membrane, and stonework.
Two or three rooms around a courtyard, a stone stair to the roof, and often a well and a disused barn or outbuilding. These are bought for the shell and the plot, and the price of getting one habitable can match what you paid for it. They come up most often in the old streets, where access for machinery is the first thing an architect will ask about.
Fully restored properties with open plan living space, a pool, a summer kitchen and parking, mostly on the village edges. Some have been kept close to the original layout and others gutted and finished to a contemporary standard behind the old stonework, so see a few before you settle on a style. Pool, plant room and garden upkeep all carry running costs that are easy to underestimate.
Larger properties on the boundary come with fields measured in tumoli, mature trees, and sometimes a vineyard, an orchard or a stone store. Water rights, rubble wall boundaries and any agricultural tenancy on the land all need checking at the searches stage. These are the properties people buy when they want their nearest neighbour out of earshot.
Some properties include a self-contained flatlet, a basement level or airspace that could take a further floor (subject to permits). You may be able to use the extra space for a parent, a grown child or a home office.
Buyers who aren’t EU nationals, and EU nationals who haven’t been resident in Malta for five years, usually need an Acquisition of Immovable Property permit to buy outside a Special Designated Area. There’s no SDA in Siggiewi, so the AIP route applies to most farmhouse purchases here by overseas buyers. Permits are tied to one property for your own use, and a minimum value applies, so build the application into your timeline from the start.
Malta has first-time buyer exemptions on duty up to a certain threshold, along with separate schemes for properties in urban conservation areas and older vacant buildings. A farmhouse in an older area may qualify for more than one, and your notary will confirm what applies to the specific address.
Buying runs through a promise of sale, usually with a deposit held by the notary, while searches on title, planning history and outstanding charges are carried out. Three months is typical, longer if a permit or a bank valuation is involved. Nothing is binding on the seller once the period lapses, so keep the searches moving.
The amount of land that comes with a farmhouse in Siggiewi varies from a walled courtyard of a few square metres in the village core to several tumoli of worked fields on the outskirts. Larger holdings towards Girgenti, Fawwara and the valleys are where the land is, and the plot usually drives the price more than the internal floor area. Ask for the site plan early, since boundaries on older properties are not always where the walls suggest.
Whether you can build a pool will depend on where the property is in Siggiewi. Inside the village, a pool is possible where there’s enough enclosed outdoor space, subject to a permit. Properties outside the development zone are treated differently and applications are assessed more strictly, so the presence of a big garden doesn’t mean a pool will be approved. Check the planning history of the property and get an architect’s view before you buy on that basis.
Many unconverted properties will have at least water, but at a supply level suited to a store rather than a house, so a full rewire and new service connections are normal. Older properties often have a well or a reservoir, which is worth keeping for the garden and can be a genuine asset in an August drought. Confirm the meter numbers and any outstanding utility arrears before the deed.
The timeline for a farmhouse restoration really depends on what you have in mind for it and the condition of the property when you start. As a rough guide, allow a year to eighteen months for a full conversion once permits are granted, and add several months for the application itself if the property is in a conservation area. Access matters more than people expect in the old alleys, where deliveries and machinery have to work around narrow streets. Trades book up well ahead, particularly stonemasons.
Siggiewi works for owners who want a base for part of the year and don’t need to be on the coast, with Għar Lapsi, the airport and Valletta all reachable in well under half an hour. Short-let demand inland is lower than in the harbour towns, so most farmhouses here are bought as homes rather than as letting stock. If letting income is part of the plan, look at the property’s licensing position early.
Farmhouses are a small, slow-moving part of the Maltese market, and in a village like Siggiewi, the better ones often change hands quietly. We’ve been selling property across Malta and Gozo for over 30 years, with offices on both islands and long relationships with the families and landlords who own this kind of stock. Our agents can tell you which conversions were done properly, which streets a lorry can’t get down, and what a realistic timeline looks like once the deed is signed.
Tell us what you’re after in Siggiewi and we’ll let you know when something fits, including properties that never reach a public listing.
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