Casa indipendente in Via Umberto I° 169
Proponiamo in vendita una casa indipendente da ristrutturare, una soluzione dalle grandi potenzialità, ideale per chi desidera personalizzare gli ambienti e dare vita a un progetto abitativo originale e su misura. L’immobile, finora utilizzato come studio tecnico, si sviluppa tra piano terra e primo piano e si…
What it really costs
Can you move in?
Not before the basics are done
Condition not stated in the listingMust be done first
- Damp
- Wiring
- Kitchen
See what needs doing and what each job costs
At €80,000 (€541/m²), this former technical office needs full renovation; adding about €1,100/m² puts the effective cost near €1,641/m² versus a local benchmark of €393/m². The sea-front location helps, but the description only suggests conversion into a home and gives a different bedroom count than the listing facts.
More on the house and the area
This is a distinctive old urban house with an attractive pink façade, wrought-iron balconies, original shutters, patterned tile floors, exposed brick, timber ceilings and generous character-filled rooms. It appears structurally enclosed and usable as a project, but the rough finishes, aging surfaces and studio-like layout mean substantial renovation is needed before it becomes a comfortable full-time home.
All the services redone, bathrooms, kitchen, windows. The structure is left alone.
Turnkey, facade and insulation included.
Our read of the photos, €1,100/m², falls in this band.
Materials only, work you may do yourself€59,000 – €87,000
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 property is explicitly sold as needing renovation and is not presented as a move-in-ready home.
- Interior walls and ceilings show damp or age-related wear, while the layout currently functions more like a studio/workspace than a finished residence.
- Only one bathroom is listed for 148 sqm, and the home is in a dense urban street with no private garden.
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 74/100The cluster is on the Milazzo peninsula on the Tyrrhenian, with rocky headland coast and beaches inside the 15 km radius. Capo Milazzo is a clear local landscape feature, and the Marine Protected Area of Capo Milazzo lies at the tip of the peninsula. The old town and castle of Milazzo stand on the headland above the sea. Across the water the Aeolian Islands are a constant presence from the coast, and ferries leave from Milazzo for them, but the islands are outside the 15 km radius. The nearest city of size is Messina, with full urban services and ferry links to Calabria.