Casale in San Giorgio Ionico
OPPORTUNITÀ UNICA – CASA D’EPOCA CON TERRENO EDIFICABILE A SAN GIORGIO IONICO (TA) A pochi minuti dal nuovo Polo Ospedaliero San Cataldo Un investimento solido e lungimirante in una zona in forte espansione! In vendita esclusiva, proponiamo una casa dei primi del '900 da ristrutturare con terreno edificabile…
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 2,000 m² the raw figure (€30/m²) is misleading because the listing mixes an old house to renovate with a fully buildable plot, and it even emphasizes demolition/new construction potential. Using the stated 'da ristrutturare' condition gives an estimated effective cost around €730/m² (30+700), only modestly below the Puglia farmhouse baseline of €817/m², so it looks more like a speculative land-development play than a clearly cheap livable home.
More on the house and the area
This has some real potential: an early-1900s single-storey Puglian house with a long plot, mature trees and stated star vaults. But from the photos it reads as a tired, neglected property needing serious work, with no interior proof of a usable home today. The wow comes more from scale, land and transformation potential than from immediate beauty.
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€396,000 – €702,000
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.
- Needs substantial renovation; interiors are not shown, so current livability is unproven.
- Outdoor areas are neglected and the frontage feels plain rather than picturesque.
- The key appeal is the large buildable plot, which makes it partly an investment/development play, not just a ready home.
- Urban-edge roadside setting with neighboring blocks reduces the romantic countryside feel.
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 42/100This is inland Salento on the low limestone plain between Taranto and the Ionian side of the peninsula, with olive groves, vineyards and scattered masserie around the settlements. The nearest large town is Taranto, which provides the main services, port and railway connections. The area is known for agriculture, especially olives, wine and other produce of the Taranto plain.