Edificio in Via Roccazzo
C. S. "BASILICATA IMMOBILIARE" di Davide Filardi SITI: "FILARDI IMMOBILIARE CASA" e "BASILICATA IMMOBILIARE" (Compravendite e Locazioni Immobiliari) VENDESI nel cuore del centro storico più suggestivo e particolare del Lagonegrese, San Costantino di Rivello, antica ed altolocata area residenziale che padroneggiare le…
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The €79,900 asking price is only €200/m², below the local €304/m² benchmark, but allowing roughly €200/m² for adapting and finishing a 400 m² historic palace brings the effective cost to about €400/m². Its historic-center setting and 4 km distance from the sea add appeal, while the listing does not say how many usable rooms or bathrooms exist or whether residential conversion is ready.
More on the house and the area
A substantial early-20th-century palazzo with an exceptionally elegant historic façade, ornate balconies, original doors, tiled floors, and a grand wrought-iron staircase. The mountain setting and historic village surroundings are highly evocative, while the roof, floors, and furnished interiors appear sound rather than ruined. It is more of a large, dated residence or hospitality conversion than a turnkey home, but it looks genuinely usable with modernization.
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€26,000 – €44,000
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 interiors are habitable-looking but very dated and would need modernization.
- No bathroom or kitchen is clearly shown, and the listing facts do not confirm them.
- At 400 sqm, heating, maintenance, and renovation costs could be substantial.
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 82/100The cluster is on the Tyrrhenian side below the southern Apennines, with wooded ridges and valleys around Rivello and the Noce basin. The coast of the Gulf of Policastro is within the 15 km radius, with the shore at Maratea and the Tyrrhenian immediately below the inland slopes. Much of the area falls in the Appennino Lucano Val d'Agri Lagonegrese National Park. Maratea is the nearest town of size in daily use on this side, with a rail station, port and services. Maratea is known for its historic center on the mountain above the sea, its indented coast and the Christ the Redeemer statue on Monte San Biagio. The area is known for chestnut woods inland and for the coast around Maratea.