Casa bifamiliare in Vicolo Monzambano 3
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At €385/m², the asking price is only slightly above the Piemonte townhouse baseline of €355/m², but allowing roughly €200/m² for unspecified condition raises the effective cost to about €585/m². The 195 m² home has attractive garden, parking and terrace features, but the vague description and missing condition data prevent a stronger score.
More on the house and the area
A sunny, photogenic townhouse with a broad balcony, generous private garden, parking area, and appealing traditional details including a fireplace, timber furnishings, and vintage patterned floors. The house appears solid, fully roofed, furnished, and genuinely livable rather than a renovation shell, though its interiors are old-fashioned and the garden needs attention.
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€13,000 – €22,000
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.
- Interiors are very dated and would benefit from cosmetic updating.
- Only one bathroom is listed for a 195 sqm, four-bedroom house.
- The garden is substantial but currently looks overgrown and needs landscaping.
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 34/100The area is the flat plain of the Bormida and Orba between Alessandria and Novi Ligure, with fields, canals, roads and scattered industrial and logistics sites. The Bormida runs near Alessandria and the Orba is a little to the east. Alessandria is the nearest town of size, with full services, rail connections and the citadel. Toward Novi Ligure the area is known for mixed agriculture and for being on the edge of the wider Gavi wine zone, but the core landscape around Bosco Marengo is plain country rather than vineyard hills. Bosco Marengo itself is known for the large complex of Santa Croce and for its link to Pope Pius V.