Rustico/casale in Via Cavallino 6
Rudere/Unità Collabente con Terreno di Proprietà In posizione riservata e immersa nel verde delle colline marchigiane, proponiamo in vendita unità collabente (categoria catastale F/2) costituita da un ex fabbricato rurale adibito ad abitazione con relativi accessori agricoli, situata in Contrada Cavallino, nel Comune…
What it really costs
See what needs doing and what each job costs
This is a unità collabente/rudere (cat. F/2), i.e. effectively a ruin; at 192 sqm the likely restoration cost is about €1,100/m², so effective cost is roughly €1,360/m² (€50k + ~€211k works), far above the €312/m² baseline. The very low asking price reflects the collapsed condition rather than a bargain.
More on the house and the area
The setting is attractive: rolling Marche countryside, open rural views and a secluded little wooded plot near a hill town. But this is explicitly a collabente ruin hidden in vegetation, with no proven usable interiors, so it reads as a project site rather than a home you could actually live in. At €50k and 192 sqm on paper it has dream potential, but the real wow is capped hard by condition.
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€76,000 – €112,000
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.
- Collabente F/2 ruin, not currently a livable home
- Photos do not show usable interiors or a standing house
- Overgrown plot and likely major clearing/rebuild work needed
- Nearby power line visible in the landscape
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 56/100The area sits in the lower Chienti valley a few kilometres inland from the Adriatic coast, with farmed hills and a belt of coastal plain. The Chienti river is the main watercourse nearby. The Sibillini Mountains are visible inland in clear weather but lie well beyond the immediate 15 km surroundings. Civitanova Marche is the nearest larger town, with a port, rail station, beaches and the main retail and service concentration for this part of the coast. The hilltop old centre of Montecosaro is part of the usual chain of historic Marche borghi above the coast, and the wider area is known for mixed agriculture and the corridor of small industry and commerce along the valley.