Casa indipendente 3 locali, 153 m² in Contrada Marina di Mar
Casa indipendente in asta a Ispica (RG) – Contrada Marina di Marza SNC (CAP 97014) L'immobile in asta è una casa indipendente situata a Santa Maria del Focallo, in Contrada Marina di Marza, nel Comune di Ispica (RG). Si trova in una zona agricola E, sottozona E1, destinata a usi agricoli indifferenziati. La…
What it really costs
Can you move in?
Livable, but something basic is worn out
In the listingHabitable- Sold at judicial auction
See what needs doing and what each job costs
This is a judicial auction, which is an automatic veto regardless of the €124/m² asking price and 66% discount versus the €389/m² baseline. The house is described as habitable but lacks public water/sewer and heating, with a nonfunctional pool and agricultural-zone constraints.
More on the house and the area
A colorful, independent seaside-area villa with a generous planted garden and a large covered outdoor living terrace, offered at an exceptionally low auction price. The house is roofed, furnished, and clearly habitable with three bedrooms and a working bathroom, but its outdoor kitchen arrangement and limited utilities make it more of a rustic coastal lifestyle bargain than a polished dream home.
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€10,000 – €17,000
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.
- The kitchen has been moved outdoors, leaving the former kitchen as a third bedroom; this may require reconfiguration for comfortable year-round living.
- There is no heating or cooling, and the property is not connected to public water or sewer networks.
- The garden pool is currently nonfunctional, and the detached storage shed has an asbestos roof.
- The property is in an agricultural countryside zone and is being sold through auction.
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 68/100The area is on the Ionian coast of south-eastern Sicily, with a low sandy shoreline at Santa Maria del Focallo and the mouth of the Cava d’Ispica inland, a long limestone gorge that cuts into the Hyblaean plateau. Vendicari Nature Reserve lies to the north along the same coast, but outside the immediate 15 km landscape. The nearest town of size is Modica, which has a large historic centre built along a rocky valley. The wider area is known for dry-stone walls, stone farm buildings, carob and olive cultivation, and baroque towns of the Val di Noto UNESCO area, though the UNESCO centres are outside the immediate radius.