Villa in vendita in Villaggio Rocco Calarco a San Roberto
L’abitazione si sviluppa all’interno di un ampio giardino di circa 450 mq, occupandone un angolo riservato e ben sfruttato. Al piano terra troviamo un’accogliente zona giorno con cucina e soggiorno open space, arricchita da un comodo bagno di servizio. Il primo piano ospita due luminose camere da letto, entrambe con…
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 €64,000 for 65 sqm, the ask is €985/sqm; with a light-habitable renovation estimate of about €250/sqm because the text says 'ready to live in' and furnished, the effective cost is about €1,235/sqm. That is far above the very low Calabria villa baseline of €286/sqm, so despite the 450 sqm garden and 5 km to the sea, this looks expensive for this catalog and the 'needs renovation' label conflicts with the description.
Decoration, tired fittings, a bathroom or a kitchen. The house is liveable as it stands.
Our read of the photos is €250/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€5,000 – €9,000
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.
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 71/100The cluster is on the Aspromonte side of the Strait of Messina, with steep lower slopes and short valleys running down toward the Tyrrhenian and the strait. Aspromonte National Park is within this area on the higher ground inland. Gambarie, the main Aspromonte ski station, is the nearest lift area and is roughly a 40 minute drive from San Roberto. Villa San Giovanni is the nearest town of size, with ferry port services for Messina; Reggio Calabria is the main city for everyday higher-level services and transport. This part of the province is known for strait views and for mountain roads rising quickly from the coast into the Aspromonte foothills.