Casa con dependance
Nel borgo di Camagna Monferrato, patrimonio UNESCO, si propone una casa da ristrutturare, con ingresso da piccolo cortile di proprietà, composta da salone con camino e cucina abitabile al piano terra. Due camere, balcone e bagno al piano primo. Sottostante cantina con volta a botte in mattoni pieni. Parte integrante…
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 220 sqm, the ask is €273/sqm, but with a typical needs-renovation budget of ~€700/sqm the effective cost is about €973/sqm, well above the Piemonte townhouse baseline of €350/sqm. The score is supported by the large size, 17 photos, UNESCO village context, and usable features like fireplace, heating and garage, but this is more a sizable renovation project than a bargain on price.
More on the house and the area
This is a real house, not a shell: it has usable rooms, a bathroom, kitchen space, heating and a handsome brick-vaulted cellar with some old-world character. The wow comes more from the Monferrato village setting and the vaulted spaces/fireplaces than from beauty in the photos, because the façade and interiors feel worn, damp and quite dated. At €60k for 220 sqm it has strong potential, but today it is more a solid renovation project than an immediately dreamy home.
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€44,000 – €77,000
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.
- Visible damp and cracking on exterior and some interior walls
- Interiors are dated and fairly dark; needs renovation rather than simple refresh
- Bathroom and courtyard/outbuildings look tired and need work
- No meaningful view shown despite the balcony
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 72/100The cluster sits in the Monferrato hills, with vine-covered ridges and rounded farmed slopes within the local landscape. The Po plain begins not far to the north, but within 15 km the setting is mainly hill country rather than flat plain. Casale Monferrato is the nearest town of size, with services, a rail station, and a substantial historic centre. This is wine country, especially Barbera and Grignolino, with scattered hamlets, farmhouses, and small hilltop villages across the surrounding ridges. Parts of Monferrato are included in the UNESCO vineyard landscape listing of Langhe-Roero and Monferrato, and Vignale Monferrato lies in that wider wine-growing landscape.