ZUBIENA - Casa Semi indipendente
Zubiena, proponiamo una casa semi indipendente in panoramica zona residenziale ,l'immobile si sviluppa su due livelli e presenta una posizione funzionale offrendo un'ottima opportunità per chi desidera personalizzare il proprio spazio abitativo. La casa ci accoglie con un ampio giardino perfetto per godere di momenti…
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 €74,000 for 240 sqm, the asking price is €308/sqm, but in 'needs renovation' condition a realistic uplift is about €700/sqm, bringing the effective cost to roughly €1,008/sqm versus a low-stock baseline of €350/sqm for Piemonte townhouses. Good size, garden and panoramic residential setting help, but on numbers this is weak unless the renovation needed is far lighter than described.
More on the house and the area
This is a real house rather than a ruin: it has floors, stairs, roof, bathroom, heating radiators and some usable volume, plus a decent garden and a quiet green setting. The nicest touch is the old vaulted ground-floor room with terracotta flooring, but much of the rest feels plain, dated and partly stripped back. Dream factor is moderate because it has size and potential, yet it needs serious work before it becomes a truly attractive live-in Italian 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€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.
- No clear panoramic view is proven in the photos despite the listing claim.
- Interiors need substantial renovation, with damp marks, unfinished areas and missing fit-out.
- Garden and courtyard are overgrown and need reclaiming.
- Only one basic bathroom is shown and the kitchen is very incomplete.
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 63/100The cluster is in the Serra morenica di Ivrea, the long glacial ridge that runs across this part of southern Biella and Canavese. The Dora Baltea plain and the Ivrea area are close to the south, and the first Biellese pre-Alps rise to the north. The nearest larger town is Biella, with the provincial services, shops and rail connections. Ivrea is also nearby, with a larger historic centre and the UNESCO-listed industrial city of Olivetti. This area is known for morainic hills, woodland, small vineyards and mixed farming.