Casa indipendente in Via Albania 2
Nel centro storico di Biancavilla presentiamo in vendita una spaziosa casa indipendente di circa 160 mq disposta su due livelli e dotata di garage con accesso diretto all'abitazione. L'immobile è composto da sette vani complessivi con due bagni (uno per piano) ed offre la possibilità di creare due unità abitative…
What it really costs
Can you move in?
Not before the basics are done
Condition not stated in the listingMust be done first
- Kitchen
See what needs doing and what each job costs
At €344/m², the €55,000 asking price is below the local €409/m² benchmark, and the historic-center location, garage, and two-unit potential add value. However, partial renovation at roughly €600/m² would bring the effective cost to about €944/m², making this only a fair deal unless works are limited.
More on the house and the area
A spacious independent Sicilian townhouse with appealing balconies, traditional shutters, old woodwork, and a distinctive corner façade in Biancavilla’s historic center. The house is solid and fully roofed with generous rooms, garage access, and two levels, but it needs meaningful renovation before it becomes a comfortable home.
Certified wiring, water and drainage, a heat source, a roof that keeps the water out, one working bathroom. Facade, insulation, a second bathroom and the floors wait.
All the services redone, bathrooms, kitchen, windows. The structure is left alone.
Our read of the photos, €600/m², falls in this band.
Turnkey, facade and insulation included.
Materials only, work you may do yourself€32,000 – €56,000
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.
- Requires partial renovation, including a visibly unfinished bathroom and substantial cleanup.
- No kitchen is shown, and the property is currently not move-in ready.
- Dense historic-center setting with narrow streets and no garden or outdoor living area.
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 84/100Mount Etna is directly above Biancavilla on the south-west side of the volcano. The Parco dell'Etna begins just uphill, with lava fields, pine and chestnut woods, and the higher volcanic slopes inside the daily landscape. The Simeto river valley lies nearby below the town. The nearest developed Etna ski area is around Rifugio Sapienza on the south side, roughly an hour by road, and Piano Provenzana on the north-east side is farther. Adrano and Paternò are the nearest larger towns, with the usual services and rail connections toward Catania. This area is known for Etna viticulture, pistachios and other agriculture on volcanic soils.