Viale Guglielmo Marconi, Casavatore
Viale Guglielmo Marconi, Casavatore. Habitable, autonomo heating, cantina.
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 €31,500 (€281/m²), this 112 m² habitable apartment remains competitively priced after allowing roughly €22,400 for ordinary updates: about €481/m² effective versus a local reference of €533/m². Heating, cellar, and five photos support the offer, though the brief description does not state the bathroom situation or building age.
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€7,000 – €12,000
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 35/100The cluster sits inside the continuous built-up suburbs north of Naples and is part of the Naples metropolitan area. The Gulf of Naples (Tyrrhenian Sea) and the metropolitan coastline are within the local area. Naples city and its services (the port, Napoli Centrale rail hub, hospitals, universities and major museums) are the nearest larger urban centre. Napoli–Capodichino (Naples) airport and the city’s main rail and road links are inside the local transport catchment. Naples historic centre, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, falls within the roughly 15 km radius. The immediate surroundings are mainly suburban and industrial fabric rather than named natural landscape features; there are few named scenic landmarks inside 15 km. Mount Vesuvius and Vesuvius National Park lie to the east-southeast but are slightly beyond the ~15 km radius from the town centre.