Casa indipendente in Via Cavour
Casa di corte libera su tre lati di 122 mq complessivi, sviluppata su due livelli, composta al piano terra da ingresso, stanza da adibire a soggiorno e ampia cucina abitabile. Salendo al primo piano, la zona notte ospita due spaziose camere da letto matrimoniali e un bagno finestrato. L'immobile è da ristrutturare.…
What it really costs
Can you move in?
Livable, but something basic is worn out
Condition not stated in the listingSee what needs doing and what each job costs
The €25,000 asking price is very low at €205/m², but the house needs renovation; allowing roughly €700/m² brings the estimated all-in cost to about €905/m², well above the local €420/m² benchmark. The three-sided country house has a clear layout and 15 photos, but the listing does not specify the extent of the works or building age.
More on the house and the area
This is a genuine, spacious village home with attractive exposed timber ceilings, terracotta floors, traditional shutters, and a leafy courtyard garden. It is roofed, floored, and appears structurally usable, but the worn finishes and stated need for renovation keep it well below dream-home territory.
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, €700/m², falls in this band.
Turnkey, facade and insulation included.
Materials only, work you may do yourself€24,000 – €43,000
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 property is explicitly described as needing renovation, with visibly worn plaster, dated finishes, and neglected outdoor areas.
- No kitchen installation is shown, and the bathroom is only represented on the floor plan.
- The house is in a dense village/courtyard setting with no notable landscape view or private open countryside.
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 32/100Flat plain of the lower Po Valley within a 15 km radius: continuous arable farmland with scattered farmsteads, irrigation and drainage canals, and the small roads and field boundaries typical of Lombardy's agricultural area. Land use is dominated by cereals, maize and dairy farming; irrigation infrastructure and reclamation works are visible in the landscape. There are no named mountains, lakes or regional/national parks inside the local radius and no ski infrastructure. Immediate local settlements are small comuni with basic shops and services; larger service towns in the province such as Codogno and the provincial capital Lodi provide rail links, hospitals and broader shopping but sit outside the small-village fabric. The area has no UNESCO status or widely recognised tourist designation and is part of ordinary cultivated lowland Lombardy rather than a named scenic zone.