Via San Giuseppe, 38, Delia
Via San Giuseppe, 38, Delia. Habitable, autonomo heating.
What it really costs
Can you move in?
Move in as it is
In the listingHabitableSee what needs doing and what each job costs
The €60,402 asking price is €351/m², but allowing about €34,400 for habitable-condition work brings the effective cost to roughly €551/m², above the local €482/m² benchmark. The listing does not say how many bathrooms the apartment has, and the very brief description limits confidence.
More on the house and the area
This is a bright, modern, apparently move-in-ready apartment with a well-equipped kitchen, finished bathroom, heating, balcony access, and generous 172 sqm for the price. It is practical and unusually affordable, but the generic apartment-block setting and limited countryside outlook provide little historic Italian charm or true dream-home atmosphere.
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.
- Generic modern apartment block rather than a characterful Italian home.
- The listing facts show 0 bathrooms despite the gallery clearly showing a finished bathroom; verify the official room count and documentation.
- The visible outlook is open but flat and not especially scenic.
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 53/100This is inland central-southern Sicily, in open cultivated hills between the Salso valley and the uplands of the province of Caltanissetta. The nearest town of size is Caltanissetta, which has the province’s main services and rail connections. The wider area is known for grain fields, low rolling badland-like clay hills in places, and the former sulphur-mining landscape of the interior.