CASA INDIPENDENTE con GIARDINO DA RISTRUTTURARE
La Zacco Immobiliare propone in vendita, nel Comune di Pieve San Giacomo, esattamente nella frazione di Ognissanti, immersa nel verde della campagna, casa indipendente posta su 2 livelli. Il piano terreno è composto da ingresso, 4 vani, locali cantine e bagno. Al piano primo ci sono 3 camere da letto con grandisima…
What it really costs
Can you move in?
Not before the basics are done
In the listingNeeds renovationMust be done first
- Damp
- Wiring
- Heating
- Kitchen
See what needs doing and what each job costs
The €38,000 asking price is very low at €105/m², but renovating 363 m² would likely add about €236,000 even with the recently rebuilt roof, bringing the effective cost to roughly €756/m² versus a €406/m² local benchmark. The two garages, 600 m² of outdoor space and roof are positives, but the unusually large floor area makes this a costly project.
More on the house and the area
This is a substantial rural Lombard farmhouse-style property with attractive old brick buildings, traditional shutters, tiled roofs, a courtyard, and generous surrounding land. The recently renewed main roof and existing floors make it more than a ruin, but the house is still a major renovation project rather than a realistically move-in-ready home.
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, €650/m², falls in this band.
Turnkey, facade and insulation included.
Materials only, work you may do yourself€72,000 – €128,000
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.
- The property is explicitly completely in need of renovation, with dated and visibly deteriorated interiors.
- No modern kitchen is shown, and the single bathroom may require rebuilding or updating.
- Utilities, structural condition beyond the recently renewed main roof, and renovation legality should be verified.
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 34/100This is the flat lower Po plain south of Cremona, with open agricultural land, irrigation channels and scattered farmsteads. The Oglio river corridor lies within reach to the east, and the Po is not far to the south, but around Pieve San Giacomo the immediate setting is mainly reclaimed and cultivated plain rather than a river landscape. Cremona is the nearest city of size, with a substantial historic centre, the Romanesque cathedral and Torrazzo, and daily services. The area is known for intensive agriculture and the food-producing plain of the Cremonese.