Casa Semi Indipendente in Centro Paese
Casa Semi Indipendente in Centro Paese. Habitable, autonomo heating, garage, mansarda, fibra ottica, porta blindata, impianto tv con parabola satellitare, esposizione doppia.
What it really costs
Can you move in?
Livable, but something basic is worn out
In the listingHabitableSee what needs doing and what each job costs
At €48,000 for 110 m², the purchase price is €436/m²; allowing roughly €22,000 for a habitable home, the effective cost is about €636/m² versus a local reference of €345/m². Town-center location, independent heating, garage and attic add practical value, but the price is not a clear bargain.
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€7,000 – €12,000
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.
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 52/100The area sits in the Scrivia valley at the meeting point between the lower Piedmont hills and the Ligurian Apennines. The Scrivia river runs through the valley. Within about 15 km are the wooded ridges and passes of the Appennino Ligure around Arquata Scrivia, Vignole Borbera and the Val Borbera side valleys. Libarna, the Roman archaeological site near Serravalle Scrivia, is the main local historic feature. Novi Ligure is the nearest larger town and has a substantial town centre and services. The landscape is known for valley-floor transport corridors and outlet-commercial development around Serravalle, with vineyard and hill country beginning nearby toward Gavi and the lower Apennine foothills.