Via Giovanni Verga, 20, Mottola
Tribunale: Taranto RGE: 27/2020 PVP: 4647795 LOTTO A: Quota pari a 1/2 della villetta a due piani fuori terra con terreno pertinenziale sita in Mottola alla Contrada Bovara, IV strada a destra lungo la strada Bovara provenendo dalla S.P. Mottola-Noci VUOI ACQUISTARE QUESTO IMMOBILE ALL'ASTA? PRENOTA ORA LA TUA…
What it really costs
Can you move in?
Move in as it is
In the listingHabitable- Sold at judicial auction
- Only a share of the property is for sale
See what needs doing and what each job costs
At €20,567 for 152 m² (€135/m²), the headline price is far below the local €500/m² comparison. However, this is a judicial auction for only a 1/2 share, and the listing warns that its images are not the actual property photos.
More on the house and the area
The advertised size and claimed habitable condition sound promising, but the gallery provides no reliable evidence of this particular house's beauty, setting, or interior quality. The historic-looking building and polished rooms shown may belong to unrelated properties, so this is not a convincing dream-home opportunity despite the low headline price.
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 – €17,000
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.
- The listing is for only a 1/2 ownership share, not the entire villa.
- The photos are explicitly illustrative and do not show the actual property.
- No bathrooms are recorded in the facts, and auction/legal occupancy details require careful verification.
- The €20,567 price is not directly comparable to buying a complete 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 67/100The cluster sits on the southern edge of the Murgia (the karst limestone plateau typical of inland northern Apulia). Within about 15 km the terrain is a karst plateau with dry-stone walls, agricultural fields and local gravine (deep karst ravines) cutting the landscape. The Ionian Sea / Gulf of Taranto coastline lies at roughly 14 km. There is no national park inside the immediate 15 km radius. There are no ski lifts in the area. The nearest city of significant size is Taranto, the provincial capital, which provides a major port, industrial employers and regional hospital and services. The local economy and landscape are dominated by olive groves, cereal cultivation and small-scale agriculture; olive oil production is a common local product.