Casa bifamiliare in Località Case Pilato 224
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What it really costs
See what needs doing and what each job costs
The €361/m² asking price is 36% below the local €567/m² benchmark, with garden and parking adding appeal. However, the listing does not state the condition and gives a vague, promotional description; assuming substantial renovation at about €700/m², the effective cost reaches roughly €1,061/m².
Certified wiring, water and drainage, a heat source, a roof that keeps the water out, one working bathroom. Facade, insulation, a second bathroom and the floors wait.
All the services redone, bathrooms, kitchen, windows. The structure is left alone.
Our read of the photos, €700/m², falls in this band.
Turnkey, facade and insulation included.
Materials only, work you may do yourself€36,000 – €63,000
Wiring, water and sanitary work of any kind, heating, air conditioning and gas go to a registered firm by law, and so do flues and the air openings for gas appliances. That labour stays in the bill. Yours is the stripping out, plaster, paint, floors, tiling and carpentry.
Labour is 61% of a renovation price on average and 67% at the median, across 191 items of the Emilia-Romagna 2025 public price list. Materials are the rest. An averaged price list, not a quote.
Materials you buy yourself carry 22% VAT; supplied by the firm doing the work they go at the 10% renovation rate. On a €30,000 materials bill that is €3,600 of extra tax.
Household wiring installed before 13 March 1990 counts as compliant if it has a main breaker with overcurrent protection, protection against direct contact and a 30 mA RCD. Having a firm bring the existing wiring up to that and certify it is the cheapest lawful route.
Estimate from the listing and its photos, not a survey. Treat it as the starting point for your own quotes. An Italian builder's quote is normally written without VAT and without design fees, so add about a quarter to any figure a firm gives you.
The area around
Location score 68/100The cluster sits on the northern slopes of the Parma Apennines (Emilian Apennines). The immediate landscape is hilly to low-mountain with mixed beech and chestnut woodland, pasture and smallholdings. Local watercourses are small streams that feed the Taro River system. Land use around the houses is mostly forestry, pasture and small-scale farming, with seasonal foraging (chestnuts, mushrooms) in the woods and scattered hamlets linked by rural roads. The A15 Parma–La Spezia corridor and the Cisa valley provide the main east–west road access through the Taro valley within regional driving distance. The nearest larger market towns in the area are Fornovo di Taro and Borgo Val di Taro, which offer shops, services and weekly markets. There is no national-park or UNESCO designation immediately around the cluster.