Baita/bungalow/chalet/trullo in Contrada Fedele Grande
Trattasi di due trulli separati, situati al piano terra, lo stato attuale dei due trulli è libero al rogito, pronti per diventare la vostra nuova casa o una piacevole fuga dalla frenesia della città. Con una superficie totale di 60m² e 50m² calpestabili, i due trulli hanno abbastanza spazio per accogliere due famiglie o essere utilizzati come casa vacanze....
What it really costs
See what needs doing and what each job costs
At €49,000 for 60 sqm, the asking price is about €817/sqm; assuming roughly €200/sqm to make it comfortably habitable from the vague 'ready to become your new home' wording, the effective cost is about €1,017/sqm versus a local baseline of €800/sqm. That is not a discount play, but two separate trulli in Ceglie Messapica with 10 photos, garden/parking, and plausible livable use still make it a solid rather than exceptional deal.
More on the house and the area
The exterior has real trullo charm, dry-stone walls and attractive olive-grove setting, so it is undeniably photogenic. But the interiors shown are very rough, cracked and bare, with no visible usable kitchen or bathrooms, making this a restoration project rather than a home you could realistically live in now. Romantic for dreamers, but condition hard-caps the score.
Decoration, tired fittings, a bathroom or a kitchen. The house is liveable as it stands.
Our read of the photos is €200/m². There is no published price band below €350/m², so the range is that figure widened by the spread of the lightest band.
Materials only, work you may do yourself€4,000 – €7,000
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.
- Essentially a full renovation project, not move-in ready
- Interiors show cracking, damp and unfinished/basic floors
- Livability claims are not supported by the photos
- Possible utilities/layout/legal checks needed for two separate trulli
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 82/100The area sits on the Murge plateau in the Valle d’Itria landscape of low karst hills, red soil, olive groves and dry-stone walls. Ceglie Messapica has a substantial historic centre and a ducal castle. Within about 15 km are other trulli-country towns including Martina Franca, Cisternino and Ostuni on its hill. The wider area is known for trulli, masserie, olive oil and rural stone architecture.