Casa indipendente in Strada Umbrocasentinese
Strada Umbro-casentinese, abitazione di ampia metratura su due livelli, da ristrutturare. PT: doppio salone e doppi servizi, veranda e magazzino; P1: quattro camere e tre bagni. Doppio ingresso. Giardino. € 99.000 trat.
What it really costs
Can you move in?
Livable, but something basic is worn out
Condition not stated in the listingMust be done first
- Damp
See what needs doing and what each job costs
At €99,000 (€450/m²), the 220 m² house needs renovation, bringing the estimated effective cost to about €1,150/m²—well above the local comparison level of €518/m². The generous size, garden, and five bathrooms are positives, but the renovation burden makes this weak value unless the asking price is substantially negotiated.
More on the house and the area
A very large, functioning country house with multiple bedrooms, bathrooms, furnished living areas, a garden and a useful covered veranda. It is livable in its current state but strongly dated, with maintenance and renovation needed; the size and €450/m² price provide the main appeal rather than exceptional beauty.
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€44,000 – €77,000
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.
- Advertised as needing renovation, with visibly dated finishes and some ceiling staining/damp concerns.
- Exterior stairs, terrace/veranda and outbuildings need maintenance and likely upgrading.
- No notable landscape view or distinctive historic interiors is shown.
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 settlement sits on a volcanic tuff plateau and cliff that overlooks the Paglia river valley. The town contains the 14th-century Duomo (Orvieto Cathedral) with the Signorelli fresco cycle in the Chapel of San Brizio. There are multiple Etruscan necropolises and an extensive network of man-made caves and tunnels cut into the tuff beneath the town (Orvieto Sotterranea). Surrounding land within the plateau and nearby slopes includes vineyards and olive groves, and the area produces Orvieto Classico DOC wine. A funicular links the upper town with the railway station (Orvieto Scalo) on the Florence–Rome line, providing rail connections to Rome and Florence. The A1 autostrada is reachable via a nearby exit. There are no ski lifts within the immediate 15 km area. The nearest commercial airports are Perugia (San Francesco d'Assisi) to the north and Rome’s Fiumicino to the south, both over an hour’s drive away.