Palazzo - Edificio in Oppido Lucano
Palazzo - Edificio in Oppido Lucano. Habitable, autonomo heating.
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In the listingHabitableSee what needs doing and what each job costs
At €49,000 for 75 m², estimated habitable-property costs bring the effective price to about €64,000, or €853/m²—far above the local comparison level of €304/m². Heating is mentioned and the home is described as habitable, but the very terse listing does not state the layout, bedrooms, or bathrooms.
More on the house and the area
This is a genuine, furnished and clearly habitable home with a usable kitchen, bathroom, heating, and multiple balconies with attractive wrought-iron railings. The flowered frontage adds some charm, but the apartment is otherwise a fairly ordinary urban property with dated finishes and no proven special view or historic 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€5,000 – €8,000
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.
- Interiors are dated and would benefit from cosmetic updating.
- No notable landscape view, private garden, or distinctive historic features are shown.
- The listing provides limited detail on bedroom/bathroom count and energy performance.
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 cluster sits in the inland hill country of the southern Apennines (Appennino Lucano). The local landscape within about 15 km is a mix of rolling to steeper hills with cereal and olive cultivation, pasture and patches of oak/maquis woodland typical of inland Basilicata. Potenza, the provincial capital, lies within roughly 10–15 km and supplies hospital services, secondary schools, larger shops and regional rail/bus links. There are no major lakes or coastal features inside the immediate radius; the setting is dominated by local ridges and valleys and a pattern of small hill towns and dispersed farmland.