Monleone a 3 km - Acqua di sopra: Casa Semindipendente
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Can you move in?
Move in as it is
In the listingHabitableSee what needs doing and what each job costs
Estimate adds ~€34,600 for renovation (≈€200/m²), bringing the effective price to €114,600 or ≈€663/m² — about 25% above the regional baseline of €528/m². The house is described as habitable, has PV panels and 27 photos, but the effective €/m² makes this a modest/overpriced value for the area.
More on the house and the area
A very charming Ligurian home with exposed beams, wide restored wooden floors, a marble sink and a private terrace/garden with a stone pond — genuinely photogenic. The house is habitable and largely move-in ready, but the lower level needs finishing and there is an outbuilding that requires completion.
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€12,000 – €19,000
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.
- Basement level (seminterrato) needs finishing/works
- Separate outbuilding currently only has perimeter walls to complete
- Some cosmetic updates needed in places (bathroom/ground-floor clutter)
- No obvious sea view (9 km to coast)
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 68/100Located in the Ligurian Apennines, in the valley known as Val Fontanabuona. The Ligurian Sea lies at the coast towns of Chiavari and Lavagna. Terrain within the 15 km radius is narrow, wooded and hilly with small valley streams and terraced slopes. No major ski lifts are located inside the immediate area; higher-elevation Apennine ski facilities are further inland. The nearest sizable towns on the coast are Chiavari and Lavagna, both with regional rail stations and coastal services; Genoa is the provincial capital and regional transport hub on the coast. The local hinterland is worked as small-scale agriculture and woodland (olive and chestnut cultivation and mixed forestry are typical).