Terratetto unifamiliare in Calice al Cornoviglio
Calice al Cornoviglio - Loc. Martinello - proponiamo in vendita casa indipendente di quattro vani, completamente da ristrutturare esternamente, con corte di proprietà, posto auto e cantina. L’abitazione si sviluppa su due livelli e mantiene la tipica disposizione delle case storiche della zona. Al piano terra troviamo…
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 €62,000 for 90 sqm, the ask is €689/sqm, already above the Liguria townhouse baseline of €522/sqm. The description says a complete renovation is needed including systems, so I estimate about €1,100/sqm renovation; that brings the effective cost to roughly €1,789/sqm, making this weak despite the private court, parking and cellar.
More on the house and the area
This is a real standing house with usable rooms, a kitchen, and some green hillside outlooks, so it is more than a shell. But the beauty is modest rather than dreamy, and the listing itself says it needs a complete renovation including the systems. The private courtyard and parking help, yet the external bathrooms and tired exterior keep it firmly in project territory.
All the services redone, bathrooms, kitchen, windows. The structure is left alone.
Turnkey, facade and insulation included.
Our read of the photos, €1,100/m², falls in this band.
Materials only, work you may do yourself€36,000 – €53,000
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.
- Exterior needs full renovation
- Systems likely need complete replacement
- Bathrooms are external to the main rooms
- Plain house on/near a road with limited privacy
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 61/100The cluster sits in the inland valleys east of La Spezia, in the Ligurian Apennines above the lower Vara basin. The Vara river valley is the main landscape within reach, with wooded slopes, small farmed clearings and scattered hamlets. The Montemarcello-Magra-Vara Regional Park extends into the lower Vara and Magra area within reach, around the river confluence plain nearer Santo Stefano di Magra and the coast. La Spezia is the nearest city of size, with port services, rail connections and full urban amenities. The area is known for inland Val di Vara villages, woodland and mixed farming between the Apennine ridge and the Gulf of La Spezia.