Casa indipendente in Corso Italia 14
CASA INDIPENDENTE NEL CUORE DEL CENTRO STORICO, A POCHI PASSI DALLE RINOMATE SCALE DI SANTA MARIA DELLE SCALE Nel fascino autentico del centro storico, a pochi passi dalle suggestive Scale di Santa Maria delle Scale, che collegano il quartiere superiore alla splendida Ibla, proponiamo in vendita una casa indipendente…
What it really costs
Can you move in?
Not before the basics are done
Condition not stated in the listingMust be done first
- Damp
- Wiring
- Plumbing
- Heating
- Bathroom
- Kitchen
See what needs doing and what each job costs
The €15,000 asking price is exceptionally low at €136/m², and the historic-center location near the Scale di Santa Maria delle Scale adds appeal. However, after accounting for approximately €99,000 of renovation work, the effective cost is about €1,036/m²—well above the local €409/m² benchmark.
More on the house and the area
The ornate historic façade and central Ragusa setting are genuinely atmospheric, with strong Sicilian baroque character. However, this is currently a stripped renovation shell rather than a usable home, so its beauty is mainly a future-project promise.
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, €900/m², falls in this band.
Turnkey, facade and insulation included.
Materials only, work you may do yourself€22,000 – €39,000
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.
- Major renovation required: interiors are stripped to bare masonry with no finished floors, kitchen, or bathroom visible.
- Extensive damp, damaged plaster, exposed wiring, and structural/roofing issues should be professionally assessed.
- Urban historic-center location means limited privacy and likely access or heritage-restoration constraints.
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 55/100The cluster is in the Hyblaean plateau around Ragusa, with limestone hills cut by deep valleys locally called cave. The Irminio river valley lies nearby, and the Mediterranean coast around Marina di Ragusa is about 20 km away so it does not count as an immediate landscape feature. Ragusa is the nearest town of size and has the late-Baroque historic districts of Ragusa Ibla and Superiore; the Val di Noto UNESCO site covers Ragusa together with other towns of south-eastern Sicily. The area is known for dry-stone walls, pasture and carrubo countryside, and for the Baroque towns of the south-east.