Appartamento in Amantea
Appartamento in Amantea. Habitable, autonomo heating, garage, videocitofono, cancello elettrico, fibra ottica, porta blindata, balcone, terrazzo, cantina, esposizione doppia.
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Can you move in?
Move in as it is
In the listingHabitableSee what needs doing and what each job costs
At €376/m², the apartment is below the local €450/m² benchmark, but estimated habitable-property costs bring the effective price to about €577/m². The seafront location and garage are positives, while the listing does not state the number of bathrooms and provides only one photo.
More on the house and the area
This is a large, apparently habitable apartment with multiple balconies and a terrace, in a sunny Calabria setting with a rocky hillside backdrop. It looks practical rather than beautiful or distinctive, and the single image does not prove an appealing interior, sea view, or strong character.
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€11,000 – €19,000
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.
- Only one exterior photo is provided, so the interior condition and bathroom layout are unverified.
- The setting appears urban and the advertised sea proximity is not visually confirmed.
- Shared parking dominates the frontage; no private garden is 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 68/100The Tyrrhenian coast is at the door here, with a long beach plain backed almost immediately by the lower Coastal Range of Calabria. The Savuto river reaches the sea just north of this stretch of coast. The nearest larger centre is Cosenza inland, with the provincial services, rail connections and hospitals; Paola is the closer coastal town of some size on the Tyrrhenian railway. This part of the coast is known for its beaches and for the old hill settlements set just above the shoreline.