Casa indipendente in Via Comunale Santo, 146, Gazzi, Messina,
Tirrenia Immobiliare propone in vendita una soluzione semi-indipendente situata in via Comunale Santo, nelle immediate vicinanze della chiesa. L'immobile è posto al piano terra e si compone di due camere, cucinino e bagno. L'intera proprietà necessita di una completa ristrutturazione, rappresentando un'opportunità…
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
Priced at €275/m² vs baseline median €387/m², so ~29% below market on a solid sample. Total ask is low (€11k for 40m²) and listing is fresh (6 days). However, it needs a complete renovation, so budget ~€800/m² (~€32k) to make habitable, roughly tripling the effective cost. Missing building year, energy class, and sea distance. Small (40m²) ground-floor semi-detached unit. Reasonable value for a personalizable renovation project but not a standout diamond given full-gut needs and thin data.
More on the house and the area
Ground-floor semi-detached unit in Messina needing full renovation. Photos show water-damaged walls, peeling plaster, mold, dated tiled bathroom, and general dereliction. No standout interior, exterior, view, or setting. The €275/m² price is low but not exceptionally so for a gutted Sicilian property, and the poor condition offsets any bargain appeal. Ordinary distressed property with no visual wow.
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.
All the services redone, bathrooms, kitchen, windows. The structure is left alone.
Our read of the photos, €800/m², falls in this band.
Turnkey, facade and insulation included.
Materials only, work you may do yourself€8,000 – €14,000
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.
- Property needs complete renovation - visible damp, mold, crumbling plaster
- Photos show abandoned, cluttered interiors with no redeeming features
- No sea distance, energy class, or building year provided
- Ground floor with limited natural light
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 55/100The cluster is in the built-up area of Messina on the Strait of Messina, with the Peloritani immediately behind the city and the Ionian and Tyrrhenian coasts meeting in the wider area. The nearest extensive mountain landscape is the Peloritani range, with wooded ridges and small upland villages within a short drive. The nearest town of size is Messina itself, which has a major port, university, hospitals, rail and ferry connections to Calabria, and the city’s setting is shaped more by dense urban fabric and transport infrastructure than by open countryside. Taormina and the larger scenery of Etna are outside the 15 km landscape and do not raise the score. Messina is known for the strait crossing and for its port.