Casa indipendente in Via Luigi Rizzo 3
Casa Indipendente a Melito Porto Salvo - Occasione Straordinaria! Scopri questa affascinante casa indipendente situata a Melito Porto Salvo, a pochi metri dal mare! Si tratta di una proprietà da completare con un grande potenziale, perfetta come residenza estiva o come eccellente investimento immobiliare. La casa si sviluppa su una superficie commerciale di 120 m² con 110 m²...
What it really costs
See what needs doing and what each job costs
At €65,000 for 120 m², the ask is €542/m²; the description says 'da completare', so I estimate about €700/m² to finish/renovate, bringing the effective cost to roughly €1,242/m². The local baseline is weak, so I rely mostly on plausibility: being a detached house a few meters from the sea helps, but this is not cheap once completion costs are included.
More on the house and the area
The only real wow here is the near-sea location, with a tunnel leading straight to the beach and a faint sense of fishing-village life. But the house itself is a bare unfinished box with raw interiors and no visible livable fit-out, so this feels much more like a project than a dream home today. At €65k for 120 m² near the sea it has bargain appeal, but not enough beauty or condition to score high.
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€24,000 – €42,000
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.
- Property is unfinished and not move-in ready.
- Interiors appear raw/empty with no fitted kitchen or bathrooms visible.
- Exterior is plain and unappealing.
- Very close to railway/underpass infrastructure.
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 71/100The area is on the Ionian coast at the south end of Calabria, with the sea immediately beside the settlement and the lower slopes of the Aspromonte massif rising a short distance inland. The Amendolea valley and other short fiumare cut down from Aspromonte to the coast in this stretch. Part of the Aspromonte National Park lies inland within this radius. The nearest town of size is Reggio Calabria, which has the ferry port for Sicily, a seafront, museums and main rail connections. This coast is known for bergamot cultivation in the Reggio Calabria area and for Greek-Calabrian villages in the Aspromonte interior.