Contrada Laise, Belvedere Marittimo
Tribunale: l'Aquila RGE: 1/2025 PVP: 4648295 Piena proprietà della quota di 1/3 di appartamento di tipo popolare nel Comune di Belvedere Marittimo (CS), Contrada Laise, piano Terra e identificato catastalmente come segue: Catasto Fabbricati Comune di Belvedere Marittimo, Foglio 33, particella 420, subalterno 1 unita…
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
Despite the €2,974 headline price (€37/m²), this is a judicial auction for only a 1/3 ownership share, not a normal purchase of the €81 m² apartment. The advertised €37/m² therefore does not represent the cost of acquiring a fully owned, readily usable home.
More on the house and the area
The illustrated interior is bright, polished, and genuinely move-in ready-looking, with a modern kitchen, attractive flooring, and a good bathroom. However, the exterior is a generic apartment block, and the photos are explicitly non-representative, so the real home's beauty and condition cannot be trusted. The extremely low price reflects the fractional auction ownership rather than a dream-home bargain.
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€5,000 – €9,000
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 explicitly says the images are indicative and not photos of the actual property.
- This is only a 1/3 ownership share sold through an auction, not a straightforward full-home purchase.
- The building exterior shown is plain and poorly maintained, with no convincing Italian character or private outdoor space.
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 is on the Tyrrhenian side of northern Calabria with the coastal ridge of the Catena Costiera immediately inland and the sea at Belvedere Marittimo close by. The Riviera dei Cedri runs along this stretch of coast and the area is known for cedar cultivation. Belvedere Marittimo has a historic upper town and a seafront lower town with everyday services; Scalea is the nearest larger coastal centre on this section of shore, and Paola farther south is the main rail stop for wider connections. The western edge of Parco Nazionale del Pollino is inland beyond the immediate coastal strip, but it lies outside the 15 km landscape around the cluster.