Casa indipendente in Via Aldo Chiorboli
ZONA EST a 15 minuti dalla citta’ casa indipendente ad angolo da ristrutturare disposta su due piani di mq 104 cosi disposta: al Piano terra, ingresso, cucina abitabile, soggiorno, ripostiglio ricavato nel sottoscala. Al primo piano troviamo 2 camere da letto di cui una matrimoniale e una singola con bagno e accesso al terrazzo di mq. 12. Riscaldamento autonomo. Completa...
What it really costs
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At €38,000 (€365/m²), the house is 8% below the €412/m² baseline, but it explicitly needs renovation. Adding an estimated €72,800 renovation cost gives an effective €1,065/m², making this weak value despite the garden, parking, terrace, and 5-day listing age.
More on the house and the area
A solid, independent two-storey village home with a generous paved terrace and a useful garden, offered at an unusually low price for 104 sqm. The interiors are finished and appear basically habitable, with heating, floors, bathroom, and several furnished rooms, but the house is dated and needs real updating rather than simply cosmetic styling. It is more of a practical rural-home bargain than a spectacular Italian dream property.
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€20,000 – €37,000
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.
- Listed as needing renovation, with visibly weathered exterior walls and roofline.
- Interiors are usable but dated, and the kitchen appears to need fitting or modernization.
- Only one bathroom is shown; check damp, roof condition, utilities, and legal status of the terrace and garden.
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 38/100The area lies in the lower Po plain, with flat agricultural land and the Po di Goro and other branches of the Po delta landscape not far to the south and east, though the immediate surroundings are mainly reclaimed farmland and river plain. The Po runs nearby and shapes the local geography. Ferrara is the nearest city of size, with a large historic centre and UNESCO status for the Renaissance city and the Po Delta cultural landscape. The area is known for agriculture and for its position between the lower Po and the routes toward Ferrara and Rovigo.