Rustico/casale in Via San Martino 72
SAN MARTINO PICCOLO: rustico di campagna con 1.600mq di terreno. Disposto su più livello l'immobile, ad oggi da ristrutturare, offre varie possibilità di personalizzazione. Vi è anche la possibilità di acquistare ulteriore terreno agricolo presente attorno alla proprietà. La posizione è strategica, vista la distanza di soli 3,4km da Correggio, e 3,5km da Carpi. Per maggiori...
What it really costs
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At €150/m² the asking price looks low, but the 600 m² farmhouse is explicitly to be renovated, implying roughly €420,000 in works at €700/m². Effective cost is about €850/m², far above the €300/m² Emilia-Romagna baseline, despite the convenient location near Correggio and Carpi.
More on the house and the area
This is a large, characterful rural farmhouse with weathered historic façades, old shutters, exposed brick, and 1,600 m² of surrounding land. However, it is clearly an uninhabitable renovation project rather than a ready home, with visible roof damage and no demonstrated interior living facilities.
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€119,000 – €211,000
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.
- Major renovation project: the property is explicitly sold as a rustico da ristrutturare.
- No bathrooms, bedrooms, or usable living spaces are shown; the interior condition is unknown.
- Visible roof deterioration, cracked/rendered façades, boarded openings, overgrowth, and agricultural outbuildings suggest substantial structural and systems work.
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 41/100This is the central Po plain between Reggio Emilia, Carpi and Modena, with flat agricultural land, irrigation channels and scattered farmhouses. Correggio has a substantial town centre with arcaded streets, everyday services and road links toward Reggio Emilia and Modena. Reggio Emilia is the nearest larger city and provides rail connections, hospitals and the main urban services for the area. The landscape around the cluster is known mainly for intensive farming and for the Emilia food-producing plain.