Il fascino della tradizione: Splendido rustico con giardino e cortile segreto
Il fascino della tradizione: Splendido rustico con giardino e cortile segreto. Habitable, autonomo heating, garage, esposizione esterna, impianto tv con parabola satellitare, arredato.
What it really costs
Can you move in?
Livable, but something basic is worn out
In the listingHabitableSee what needs doing and what each job costs
At €70,000 (€389/m²), the home is only slightly above the local €359/m² benchmark before allowing roughly €36,000 for habitable-condition updates. The 180 m² farmhouse has heating, a garage, garden and furnishings, but its effective cost is about €589/m², making it a reasonable rather than exceptional deal.
More on the house and the area
A genuinely habitable Lombard farmhouse with plenty of space, a working kitchen and bathroom, rustic beams, a fireplace, and a generous private garden/courtyard. It has real live-in potential and excellent value at this size and price, but the interiors are dated and the exterior areas need tidying rather than offering a polished dream-home presentation.
Decoration, tired fittings, a bathroom or a kitchen. The house is liveable as it stands.
Our read of the photos is €200/m². There is no published price band below €350/m², so the range is that figure widened by the spread of the lightest band.
Materials only, work you may do yourself€12,000 – €20,000
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.
- Interiors are very dated and would benefit from substantial cosmetic updating.
- Some walls and ceilings show visible staining or signs of moisture/age.
- The garden and courtyard are usable but currently overgrown and rough-finished.
- Only one bathroom is shown for a 180 sqm, three-bedroom home.
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 35/100This is the southern Brescian plain near the border with the province of Cremona, in a flat agricultural area of fields, irrigation channels and scattered villages. The Oglio river corridor lies to the east within this part of the plain. The nearest larger centres in daily use are Manerbio to the north and Cremona farther south-west, with ordinary services, shops and rail connections. This area is known for intensive farming and dairy production in the lower Pianura Padana.