Casa Indipendente
In Contrada Crocicchia proponiamo uliveto di circa 1.830 mq con cascina regolarmente accatastata di circa 55 mq. La proprietà si trova in una zona tranquilla e panoramica, immersa nel verde e con vista aperta sul paesaggio circostante. Il terreno è ideale per la coltivazione degli ulivi e per chi desidera uno spazio…
What it really costs
- Registered as agricultural or storage, not as a dwelling
See what needs doing and what each job costs
This is primarily an agricultural plot (1,830 sqm olive grove) with only a 55 sqm cascina described as a support building, not a clear legal dwelling, so it fails the livability test. The headline €17,000 price is misleading versus the recorded 1,828 sqm; for the usable structure it is about €309/sqm before heavy restoration, already above the €260/sqm baseline.
More on the house and the area
The sea-and-hill panorama is the real wow here: it has a dreamy Calabrian outlook over olive-covered valleys to the coast. The land and olive grove give it real charm, but the building shown is a very simple rustic support space rather than a beautiful ready home. Usable as a basic retreat, it would need significant upgrading to feel like somewhere you'd truly want to live.
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€724,000 – €1,069,000
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.
- This is primarily an olive grove with a small registered farm outbuilding, not a full house.
- Interiors look very basic and improvised, with limited comfort and likely only simple weekend-use livability.
- Only one bathroom is indicated and the layout/amenities appear minimal.
- Hillside rural access and utilities should be verified carefully.
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 55/100The cluster lies in the Ionian coastal plain around the mouth of the Crati, with the Sila foothills inland and the lower slopes of the massif visible farther west. The Ionian Sea coast is close, with long sandy beaches and low flat shoreline around Schiavonea and the Corigliano-Rossano seafront. The Sila National Park begins inland beyond the plain, outside the immediate 15 km landscape. Corigliano-Rossano is a large town and has extensive modern built-up areas, services, shopping and rail connections; the urban cap applies here because the cluster is inside a city above 50,000 residents. The area is known for citrus groves and olive cultivation on the plain and lower hills, and for the historic centres of Corigliano and Rossano, including the ducal castle at Corigliano and the Codex Purpureus of Rossano, which is on UNESCO's Memory of the World register.