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Via Della Cananea, 1, Montalto Uffugo

Montalto Uffugo, Calabria
Bedrooms
12
Baths
0
m²
275
Price per m²
€115
Property type
Townhouse
Rooms
5 locali

Tribunale: Cosenza RGE: 368/2012 PVP: 4650975 Piena proprietà 1000/1000 di un’unità immobiliare residenziale sita ai piani seminterrato (locale cantina), terra e primo di un fabbricato in muratura ordinaria. VUOI ACQUISTARE QUESTO IMMOBILE ALL'ASTA? PRENOTA ORA LA TUA CONSULENZA GRATUITA! Rispondi subito a questo…

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What it really costs

Can you move in?

Move in as it is

In the listingNeeds renovation

The photographs say otherwise, and we go by the photographs.

  • Sold at judicial auction
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Why this price is what it is

This 275 m² property is being sold through a judicial auction, which carries legal and purchase-process risks and is excluded from ordinary habitable-home deals. Although the advertised price is only €115/m², renovation would materially increase the effective cost, and the listing states that the images are only indicative rather than real.

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What the photos show

The interiors look polished in the supplied images, but they are explicitly not photographs of this property, so they cannot establish real beauty or condition. The actual home is a large auction townhouse needing renovation, with no confirmed bathrooms and no proven standout setting or character.

Minimum to live in it€350–500/m²
€96,000 – €138,000

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.

This house
Comfortable
€165,000 – €248,000

All the services redone, bathrooms, kitchen, windows. The structure is left alone.

Our read of the photos, €700/m², falls in this band.

Full€1,200–1,500/m²
€330,000 – €413,000

Turnkey, facade and insulation included.

Materials only, work you may do yourself€54,000 – €97,000

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.

Connections and paperworkabout €10,000

Bringing a house that has stood empty back into service: new water, sewer and electricity, plus the practices. The same sum on an 80 m² house and on a 300 m² one, which is why a €40,000 house is not a €40,000 project.

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Water 1,800 · sewer 2,500 · electricity 700–1,600 · CILA 1,000 · cadastral filing 500 · structural design 700 · Legge 10 report 900 · safety coordination 1,800

No mains drain: add €2,000–4,500 for a septic tank. Listings never say, so ask.

Asking price + this range + connections
€207,000 – €290,000
What worries us about this house
  • The listing explicitly says the images are indicative and not photos of the actual property.
  • Needs renovation; the stated bathroom count is 0.0, so basic livability is unconfirmed.
  • Court auction purchase with potentially significant legal, access, and condition checks required.
  • The exterior shown is a dense, ordinary apartment-block setting with no visible view 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 50/100

The cluster is in the Crati valley, with cultivated hills and low ridges around the built-up area. The Crati river plain lies nearby, and the Tyrrhenian coast around Paola and the Gulf of Sant’Eufemia is a short drive west but outside the immediate landscape. The Sila mountains rise to the east beyond Cosenza, but they are not within the 15 km setting here. Cosenza is the nearest city of size and provides the main services, rail links and hospitals for the area. This part of Calabria is known for mixed agricultural land, hill villages and the corridor between the Tyrrhenian side and the Cosenza basin.

The comune of Montalto Uffugo
People living here
20,034
+11.0% between the 2011 and 2021 census
Over 65
16%
18% are under 14
Flood zone
11%
of residents live in a medium-risk flood area
Landslide zone
2.4%
of residents live in a high-risk landslide area
How far to everything
To the sea
12 km
Nearest airport
77 min drive
Nearest city
33 min drive
Property address:Via Della Cananea, 1
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Asking price

€31,587.56
Deal score
5/100
Wow
28/100

Listed 24/10/2026