Villa indipendente
L’abitazione si sviluppa su due livelli. Al piano terra troviamo un accogliente soggiorno, una cucina abitabile separata, spaziosa e funzionale, due camere, un bagno e un comodo disimpegno che organizza in modo razionale tutti gli ambienti. Completa il piano un garage di ben 47 mq, ideale non solo per il ricovero di…
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 €95,000 for 238 sqm, the ask is €399/sqm versus a low-stock baseline of €472/sqm, but it is explicitly 'da ristrutturare': using ~€700/sqm renovation, effective cost is about €1,099/sqm. Large size, 27 photos, garage and 750 sqm garden support legitimacy, but after renovation it no longer looks cheap relative to this already-low baseline.
More on the house and the area
This is a large, detached and genuinely usable house volume-wise, with a generous private plot and a very low price per square metre. But the photos show a plain exterior and tired interiors with stains, cracks and stripped-back rooms, so it feels more like a practical renovation project than a dream Italian home. The appeal is space and potential rather than immediate beauty.
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€47,000 – €83,000
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.
- Needs full interior updating before it feels comfortable to live in
- Visible cracking and staining suggest further technical checks are needed
- Kitchen appears stripped out and bathrooms are not clearly shown/confirmed in usable condition
- Rural roadside setting is quiet but not especially scenic or characterful
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 33/100Rolo sits in the flat Po plain, in a landscape of fields, drainage canals and scattered farm buildings. The Secchia runs a few kilometres to the east and marks one of the main river corridors of this part of Emilia. The nearest larger centres are Carpi and Correggio, with full everyday services, while Modena and Reggio Emilia are the nearest provincial cities. This area is known for intensive agriculture and for the manufacturing and logistics belt spread across the lower plain between Modena, Carpi, Suzzara and Reggio Emilia.