Casa indipendente in Via Guglielmo Marconi
Se state cercando indipendenza, tranquillità e ampi spazi per tutta la famiglia, questa soluzione a Scandolara Ravara è l'ideale! L'immobile si trova all'interno di una piccola e riservata corte di sole due abitazioni, garantendo la massima privacy. La casa è libera su tre lati e vanta un cortile d'ingresso, un giardino privato e comodi locali accessori ad uso deposito...
What it really costs
See what needs doing and what each job costs
At €209/m², the €40,000 asking price is well below the Lombardia baseline of €474/m², but the condition is unspecified and the 191 m² country house has only one bathroom. Assuming substantial renovation at about €700/m², the effective cost is roughly €909/m², making this an uncertain rather than clearly good deal.
More on the house and the area
This is a large, solid country house with attractive exposed timber ceilings, tiled floors, original brick outbuildings, and a private garden. It is clearly more than a shell, but the interiors need meaningful refurbishment and the kitchen is not currently functional, so it is a renovation project rather than a move-in-ready dream home.
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€38,000 – €67,000
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.
- Substantial cosmetic renovation is needed, with peeling plaster, damp-looking areas, and an unfinished kitchen.
- The garden and courtyard are overgrown and need clearing and landscaping.
- Only one bathroom is shown for a large seven-bedroom house; utilities and systems should be verified.
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 36/100This is the lower Po plain near the Po River, with flat farmland, embankments, irrigation channels and scattered villages. The Po is the main landscape feature in the area. Casalmaggiore is the nearest town of size, with services and a historic centre on the Po. Cremona is farther away and matters more for work and higher-level services than for the immediate landscape. The area is known for intensive agriculture and for the river plain between Lombardy and Emilia.