Appartamento in Trecate
Luminosissimo bivani con ingresso/soggiorno, cucina separata abitabile con balcone e finestra, bagno completo con allaccio per lavatrice e finestra, grande camera da letto con balcone e predisposizione armadio a muro. Cantina con porta di ferro. No agenzia o intermediari.
What it really costs
Can you move in?
Move in as it is
In the listingHabitableSee what needs doing and what each job costs
At €70,000 (€1,167/m²), the estimated effective cost is about €82,000, or €1,367/m² after allowing for routine habitable-home work. That is roughly twice the local level of €667/m², although the apartment has balconies, a garage, cellar and heating.
More on the house and the area
A bright, genuinely habitable apartment with a clean fitted kitchen, comfortable bedroom, and useful balcony outlook over the surrounding town. The elevated urban view adds appeal, but the home is practical and pleasant rather than architecturally special or visually unforgettable.
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€4,000 – €7,000
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.
- Compact 60 sqm one-bedroom apartment with fairly ordinary 1970s interiors.
- The broad town view is attractive but hazy and urban rather than scenic countryside or mountain scenery.
- No bathroom photo is shown, so its actual finish is less independently verifiable.
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 51/100Cerano sits in the flat western Po plain between Novara and the Ticino valley. The Ticino river and the Parco del Ticino are within reach to the east, with riparian woodland, wet meadows and former gravel-pit lakes in that corridor. Novara is the nearest town of size, with a substantial historic centre and services. The area is known for irrigated rice country and a network of canals and farmsteads typical of the Novara plain.