Casa colonica in Baricella
L'immobile in vendita è una casa colonica situata a Baricella, in Via Mazzola, al piano terra. La proprietà si sviluppa su una superficie di 75 metri quadri ed è composta da due locali. L'immobile è da ristrutturare e non è arredato. La proprietà è priva di impianto di riscaldamento e non presenta infissi specificati.…
What it really costs
Can you move in?
Not before the basics are done
In the listingNeeds renovationSee what needs doing and what each job costs
Price €35,000 plus estimated renovation €700/m² (75 m² → €52,500) gives an effective cost ≈€87,500 or ≈€1,167/m², far above the local median €290/m². The listing has no photos and explicitly lacks heating and an energy class, so the high implied renovation burden makes this overpriced.
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€15,000 – €27,000
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.
Bringing a house that has stood empty back into service: new water, sewer and electricity, plus the practices. The same sum on an 80 m² house and on a 300 m² one, which is why a €40,000 house is not a €40,000 project.
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Water 1,800 · sewer 2,500 · electricity 700–1,600 · CILA 1,000 · cadastral filing 500 · structural design 700 · Legge 10 report 900 · safety coordination 1,800
No mains drain: add €2,000–4,500 for a septic tank. Listings never say, so ask.
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 43/100This is the flat lower Pianura Padana between Bologna and Ferrara, with reclaimed farmland, canals and drainage ditches around the Reno valley. The Po Delta regional park system reaches into the wider plain to the east with the Valli di Argenta wetlands within about 15 km, an area of lagoons, reedbeds and bird habitat. Ferrara is the nearest major historic city in daily reach, with a large Renaissance centre and UNESCO status, but it is outside the immediate 15 km landscape. The area is known for arable farming on the Bolognese-Ferrarese plain.