Villetta a schiera in Via Caltagirone, Cianciana,
ZONA: Centro Città - INDIRIZZO: Via Caltagirone - Cianciana (AG) PIANI: Piano terra e primo piano - totale 120 mq. Casa su due livelli costruita in muratura. La proprietà copre un'area di circa 60 mq per piano per una superficie totale di circa 120 mq. La casa è composta da 2 vani in stile rustico e un bagno al piano…
What it really costs
Can you move in?
Not before the basics are done
In the listingNeeds renovationSee what needs doing and what each job costs
At 125 EUR/m2, priced well below the local median of 387 EUR/m2, giving a strong discount for a 120 m2 masonry villa on two levels. Habitable structure needing renovation, walkable to town center, with balcony and terrace. Renovation of a rustic-condition two-story property in inland Sicily typically runs ~500 EUR/m2. Downsides: only 1 photo, no building year or energy class, ~30 min from the sea, and the description is somewhat contradictory about room counts. Solid value buy but budget for full renovation.
More on the house and the area
Single low-quality photo of a peeling stucco facade with a small balcony in a narrow street. Typical Cianciana cheap-Sicily townhouse needing renovation. No interior, no view, no standout architecture visible. The bargain price (\u20ac15k) is common for this market and doesn't create genuine wow. Confused/contradictory room count in description. Nothing scroll-stopping shown.
Certified wiring, water and drainage, a heat source, a roof that keeps the water out, one working bathroom. Facade, insulation, a second bathroom and the floors wait.
Our read of the photos, €500/m², falls in this band.
All the services redone, bathrooms, kitchen, windows. The structure is left alone.
Materials only, work you may do yourself€14,000 – €23,000
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.
Bringing a house that has stood empty back into service: new water, sewer and electricity, plus the practices. The same sum on an 80 m² house and on a 300 m² one, which is why a €40,000 house is not a €40,000 project.
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Water 1,800 · sewer 2,500 · electricity 700–1,600 · CILA 1,000 · cadastral filing 500 · structural design 700 · Legge 10 report 900 · safety coordination 1,800
No mains drain: add €2,000–4,500 for a septic tank. Listings never say, so ask.
- Only 1 photo, showing a deteriorated street-facing facade
- Needs full renovation
- No interior photos to assess condition or character
- No sea proximity specified (30 min to beach)
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 56/100This is inland south-west Sicily in the valley country between the Sicani hills and the lower Belice-Platani area. The Platani river system is the main named landscape feature in this part of the province. Monte Cammarata and the Sicani mountains are to the north, within roughly the wider 15 km landscape only at its edge from Cianciana, and the nearest higher mountain country is around Cammarata and Santo Stefano Quisquina. The nearest coast used in daily life is the Agrigento shoreline around Eraclea Minoa and the Ribera-Seccagrande side, but it is outside the immediate landscape radius. The nearest town of size is Ribera, which has the main services for this inland area. This part of Sicily is known for olive groves, vineyards and inland hill villages.