Casa indipendente in Contrada Crocicchia
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 agricolo da utilizzare anche nel tempo libero. La...
What it really costs
- Registered as agricultural or storage, not as a dwelling
See what needs doing and what each job costs
The description is for an olive grove with a 55 sqm cascina/country outbuilding on agricultural land, not clearly a lawful dwelling; that is a veto risk for foreign buyers seeking a habitable home. Baseline data are weak, and with likely full restoration the effective cost is about €1,409/sqm (€17,000 + ~€60,500 works over 55 sqm), far above the €365/sqm low-stock baseline.
More on the house and the area
The sea-and-hills panorama is genuinely dreamy, and the olive grove gives it real Calabria fantasy value for very little money. But the house itself is extremely simple: usable and roofed, with a basic kitchen/sleeping setup, yet far from a polished live-in home. This feels more like a lovable rural base or weekend hideaway than a true dream house as-is.
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€22,000 – €32,000
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.
- Very basic small house with plain, improvised interiors
- Likely more a simple rural retreat than a comfortable full-time home
- Steep hillside land may limit easy everyday use
- Photos do not clearly prove full modern services/finished bathroom quality
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.