Casa indipendente in Contrada Costa
La vendita è IN ESCLUSIVA. La proprietà è situata in montagna, a circa 900 metri di altitudine, in località Costa presso il Comune di Serravalle del Chienti. Quanto in vendita si compone di una casa indipendente cielo-terra, un locale ufficio/studio situato in un diverso fabbricato, di un ampio garage e di un giardino.…
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Can you move in?
Move in as it is
Condition not stated in the listingSee what needs doing and what each job costs
The €56,000 price is €467/m², about 38% above the local €339/m² benchmark; estimated effective cost rises to roughly €667/m² after allowance for cleaning and minor damp repair. The house is promptly habitable, seismically renovated with new windows, and includes a garage, office, garden and terrace, but its remote mountain location limits the value premium.
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This is a genuine, fully equipped country home with a usable kitchen, fireplace, two bathrooms, three bedrooms, tiled floors, heating, and a garden. The glimpse of mountain scenery, leafy setting, shutters, tiled roofs, and large fireplace give it authentic rural-Marchigiano appeal. It appears move-in ready after cleaning and minor moisture-related repairs, rather than being a renovation project.
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€8,000 – €13,000
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.
- Some visible garden and exterior areas need tidying and maintenance.
- The home relies on a wood-burning thermo-fireplace for heating.
- A wall shows signs of moisture staining that may need attention.
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 55/100There is an internal inconsistency in the FACTS: Foligno is normally the town in Umbria (province of Perugia); the listing places the cluster in Macerata, Marche (coordinates 43.038, 12.895). Treating the cluster as being in inland Macerata province, the surroundings are the Apennine foothills of central Marche: within about 15 km the ground is hilly to low-mountain with mixed woodland and agricultural patches. No major lake or coastline lies inside 15 km. There is no named national park or coastal protection zone immediately adjacent (the Monti Sibillini are in the region but are likely farther than 15 km from these coordinates). The local settlement pattern is small towns and medieval hill villages and scattered hamlets; larger services for the area are found in the province’s towns (for example Camerino/Matelica) and in the provincial capital Macerata, which provide hospitals, train links and regional administrative services. The local economy is rural: small-scale farming, woodland (chestnut/oak) and local artisan activity.