Rustico/casale in Ss579 19
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Condition not stated in the listingSee what needs doing and what each job costs
At €25,000 (€357/m²), the asking price is close to comparable local stock, but allowing roughly €21,000 for unspecified work brings the effective cost to about €657/m². The recently renovated bathroom and 14 photos are positives, while the listing does not state the overall condition and the recorded bathroom count conflicts with the description.
More on the house and the area
This is a genuine, furnished and usable farmhouse with a dramatic Abruzzo mountain panorama, working kitchen, fireplace/wood stove, bedrooms, and a recently renovated shower room. The home is dated and would benefit from cosmetic upgrades and modernization, but it is far beyond a bare renovation shell; at €25,000, the livability plus the view creates strong dream-home appeal.
Decoration, tired fittings, a bathroom or a kitchen. The house is liveable as it stands.
Our read of the photos is €300/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€7,000 – €12,000
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 and furnishings are quite dated, with one older bathroom needing modernization.
- The exterior and surrounding buildings are plain rather than picturesque, and the condition of utilities/heating is not documented.
- The panoramic mountain outlook is excellent, but private garden/land ownership is not clearly established.
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 68/100Capistrello sits on the transition between the broad agricultural Fucino plain (the drained Lake Fucino) and the lower slopes of the central Apennines. The Sirente‑Velino massif (Apennines) and the area of the Sirente‑Velino Regional Natural Park lie within about 15 km, providing mountain ridges and trails above the plain. Nearest winter-ski facilities are in the Sirente/Ovindoli–Campo Felice area (ski lifts reached by roughly a 30–45 minute drive). The larger town of Avezzano is a few kilometres to the south and supplies a railway station, hospital, weekly markets and larger shops and services. The locality is in the Marsica area of Abruzzo, a zone of intensive irrigated agriculture on the Fucino plain (fruits, vegetables, potatoes) and of towns rebuilt after the 1915 Avezzano earthquake.