Casa indipendente in Via Giuseppe Garibaldi
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What it really costs
Can you move in?
Not before the basics are done
Condition not stated in the listingMust be done first
- Damp
See what needs doing and what each job costs
The €59,000 asking price is attractive at €319/m², but the house clearly needs substantial renovation; even at an estimated €700/m², the effective cost is about €1,019/m² versus a local reference of €416/m². The new roof helps, but the extensive recovery work and energy class G make this a weak deal unless renovation costs can be kept unusually low.
More on the house and the area
This is a genuine, spacious country home with an enclosed courtyard, mature greenery, traditional patterned floors, wooden furnishings, and a lived-in Italian character. The main house is usable with a kitchen, bathroom, heating, and intact roofs, but it is dated and the extensive outbuildings are clearly renovation projects rather than polished living space.
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€37,000 – €65,000
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 home is dated and needs substantial cosmetic modernization and personalized renovation.
- The large rustici/outbuildings appear rough and may require significant structural or functional work.
- Only one bathroom is shown for a seven-bedroom property.
- No notable landscape view or dramatic setting is visible.
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.