Terratetto unifamiliare in Ascea
Nel comune di Ascea, proponiamo in vendita un rudere di 40 mq con 3000 mq di terreno , ideale per chi cerca una soluzione abitativa intima e riservata, da completare a proprio piacimento. Situata al piano terra, questa proprietà offre una camera da letto e un giardino privato, perfetto per momenti di relax all'aperto.…
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
The description explicitly says rudere (ruin): at 40 sqm and €59,000, with a full-restore estimate of about €1,100/sqm, the effective cost is roughly €2,575/sqm (€103,000 total), versus a very low €420/sqm baseline. Sea view and 1 km from the coast are positives, but they do not offset paying a very high effective price for a ruin.
More on the house and the area
The sea view is genuinely beautiful, and the little stone structure has real rustic character in a lovely olive-covered setting. But this is not a usable home today: it reads as a tiny ruin/shell with major reconstruction needed, not a move-in retreat. Dreamy location, serious project.
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€16,000 – €23,000
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.
- It is explicitly a rudere and the interior appears partly roof-open and not habitable.
- No bathroom or finished kitchen is shown, so this is a full restoration project.
- Dense overgrowth and sloping land may make access and site work harder.
- Sea view is excellent, but some utility/legal rebuild limits should be checked carefully.
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 84/100The cluster is on the Cilento coast on the Tyrrhenian Sea. It lies within the Cilento, Vallo di Diano e Alburni National Park. Marina di Ascea has a long sandy shore, and the low hills behind it rise into the inland Cilento landscape. Velia, the archaeological site of ancient Elea, is at Ascea and is part of the UNESCO listing that covers the Cilento and Vallo di Diano with the archaeological sites of Paestum and Velia and the Certosa di Padula. Vallo della Lucania is the nearest larger town for daily services. The area is known for the Cilento coast, olive groves and the archaeological remains of Velia.