Antico casolare in pietra nell’immediata periferia di Ostuni
PIER PAOLO MARSEGLIA Servizi Immobiliari propone la vendita di un antico casolare in pietra nell’immediata periferia di Ostuni. L’immobile, di circa 90 mq, dispone di due ingressi indipendenti ed è composto da una ampia zona living con camino, una cucina, un ulteriore ambiente con pietra a vista che potrebbe diventare…
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 €99,000 for 90 sqm, the ask is about €1,100/sqm; with a typical needs-renovation budget of ~€700/sqm, the effective cost is ~€1,800/sqm versus a low-stock baseline of €833/sqm for similar Puglia farmhouses. The 7,000 sqm land and Ostuni outskirts add appeal, but the pricing still looks well above this catalog baseline for a renovation project.
More on the house and the area
There is genuine appeal in the old stonework, vaulted details and olive-grove setting, giving it some authentic Puglian character. But this is not a ready home: much of the interior looks bare and unfinished, with dusty floors and limited fitted spaces, so livability is currently low. It feels more like a solid restoration project than an immediately dreamy place to move into.
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, €700/m², falls in this band.
Turnkey, facade and insulation included.
Materials only, work you may do yourself€18,000 – €32,000
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.
- Interiors are very basic and partly raw, with major renovation needed before comfortable living.
- Only one finished bathroom is shown; no usable kitchen is evident.
- Exterior is plain rather than photogenic despite the stone character inside.
- No view is shown, and the setting feels functional countryside rather than spectacular.
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 81/100The area sits in the Valle d’Itria landscape of low karst hills with olive groves, dry-stone walls and scattered trulli. Ceglie Messapica has a large historic centre with a castle and a dense network of old lanes, and Martina Franca and Ostuni are the nearest larger centres in the surrounding hill country with full services. Within roughly this radius are several towns associated with the trulli and masserie landscape, and Ceglie Messapica is known in Puglia for its food tradition, especially biscuits and local cucina povera.