Villa unifamiliare in Brescello
Casa indipendente completamente da ristrutturare in pieno centro a Brescello, con ampio giardino che affaccia su tre Vie.
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 €60,000 for 240 sqm, the ask is €250/sqm, below the local sub-€100k baseline of €408/sqm, but it is explicitly completely to renovate in the town center. Using ~€700/sqm renovation, the effective cost is about €950/sqm; central location and garden help, but the renovation burden keeps it from scoring higher.
More on the house and the area
This has real faded-villa character outside: a symmetrical period façade, iron balcony and a large corner garden in the town center. But the condition is far from move-in, with propped interiors, cracks, decay and no usable bathroom or kitchen visible. It feels more like a substantial restoration project than a home you could live in soon.
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€48,000 – €84,000
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.
- Completely to renovate; interiors are stripped and visibly damaged.
- No bathroom or usable kitchen is shown, so it is not currently livable.
- Busy in-town roadside position rather than a scenic setting.
- Garden/yard is large but overgrown and needs major cleanup.
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 42/100The Po runs by Brescello and the immediate landscape is the lower Po plain, with embankments, fields and scattered riverside settlements. Within this radius the main historic centre of size is Guastalla, which has a service-town role for the area and a planned central square. The wider setting is the flat agricultural plain between Parma, Reggio Emilia and Mantua, known for Po Valley farming and for the Don Camillo and Peppone association in Brescello itself.