Casa indipendente in Via Duca degli Abruzzi
Immobiliare piscopo propone in vendita solozione indipendente a mondragone di 40 mq. La soluzione presenta un piano terra e un primo piano composti da cucinino, sala, una camera da letto e un bagno. Prezzo € 40.000.
What it really costs
Can you move in?
Move in as it is
Condition not stated in the listingSee what needs doing and what each job costs
At €1,000/m² before works, this 40 m² home is already well above the local €430/m² benchmark; allowing roughly €28,000 for unspecified renovation raises the effective cost to about €1,700/m². The location 2 km from the sea is a positive, but the listing does not say whether the property is habitable or renovated.
More on the house and the area
A compact, genuinely usable town home with a functioning kitchen, bathroom, living area, bedroom, and small terrace. It has appealing old-town character, traditional stone paving, and a glimpse toward rocky hills, but the interiors are basic and the exterior is visibly worn rather than beautifully restored.
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€8,000 – €14,000
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.
- Very small 40 sqm home with limited living space.
- Exterior walls and street-facing surfaces look weathered and may need maintenance.
- No clear information on heating, energy performance, or structural condition.
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 56/100The cluster is on the Domitian coast by the Tyrrhenian Sea, with a long sandy shoreline at Mondragone and the isolated mass of Monte Massico immediately inland. The area includes the lower Garigliano plain and the mouth of the Garigliano River to the north. The nearest larger town is Caserta, which has city services and the Reggia di Caserta UNESCO site, but that is outside the immediate landscape. This stretch of coast is known for beaches, pinewoods in places along the littoral, and intensive lowland agriculture on the coastal plain.