Via Card. O. Luis Romero, 35, Morrovalle
Via Card. O. Luis Romero, 35, Morrovalle. Habitable, autonomo heating.
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 €99,450 (€691/m²), the apartment is already about 24% above comparable Marche listings before allowing roughly €28,800 for habitable-condition work, bringing the effective cost to about €891/m². Autonomous heating is a positive, but the listing is very sparse and does not state the bathrooms, size of any required updates, or energy performance.
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€10,000 – €16,000
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 52/100This is a belt of low cultivated hills between the Chienti valley and the Adriatic side of southern Marche. The Chienti river plain lies nearby, and the coast around Civitanova Marche is about 15 km away. Macerata is the nearest provincial town of size, with a historic centre, theatres and services; Civitanova Marche is the main larger centre nearby for rail, shops and the seafront. The area is known for mixed farming and for the footwear and light-manufacturing districts of the Marche hills and coastal plain.