Casa indipendente con cortile e ampio rustico
CASA INDIPENDENTE CON CORTILE E AMPIO RUSTICO. Habitable, autonomo heating, garage, mansarda, taverna, esposizione esterna, arredato.
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 €319/m², the €59,000 asking price looks attractive, but allowing about €200/m² for a habitable 185 m² home brings the effective cost to roughly €519/m², above the €419/m² local benchmark. The independent house has a garage, heating, courtyard and 33 photos, but the inland location offers limited additional value.
More on the house and the area
This is a genuinely usable, spacious Italian townhouse with a functioning kitchen, heating, bathroom, bedrooms, and attractive old-fashioned details such as timber floors, decorative doors, traditional furniture, and patterned tiles. The private courtyard adds potential, but the exterior is utilitarian and the attached rustic structures are rough and renovation-heavy, keeping it below the dream-home tier.
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€12,000 – €21,000
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 main house appears habitable, but finishes and bathroom fixtures are notably dated.
- The large rustic outbuilding has visibly deteriorated brickwork, exposed structure, and likely needs substantial renovation.
- The courtyard is private but currently cluttered and overgrown; there is no notable landscape or panoramic view shown.
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 34/100This is flat Po Valley countryside between the Oglio and Po river systems, with fields, drainage canals and scattered farmsteads as the dominant landscape. The nearest town of size is Casalmaggiore, which has a full set of everyday services and a historic centre on the Po. The area is known for intensive agriculture and for the network of small rural settlements of the lower Cremonese plain.