A hundred and forty square metres in Lecce at this price comes with a condition attached, and here it is stated plainly: the flat needs renovating. What it also has is its own entrance, its own outdoor space and a roof slab you own outright.
What you get
The kitchen is a separate room with its own door straight outdoors. The flat is reached directly from outside, with no shared stairwell, which is why Italian listings call it an independent apartment. Inside: a large living room, two bedrooms, a bathroom, a hallway and a laundry, all on the same level — the first floor of Via Massaia 112.
Outside, and exclusively yours: a veranda off the main rooms and the roof slab above — space for solar panels or a private terrace, depending on which you want more.
| Price | €150,000 |
|---|---|
| Floor area | 140 m² |
| Bedrooms | 2 |
| Bathrooms | 1 |
| Rooms | 3 |
| Year built | 1980 |
| Energy class | G |
| Condition | In need of renovation |
| Reference | MIL-0014 |
Where it is
Via Massaia is in Lecce, in a residential part of the city rather than the tourist core. It is the sort of address people buy to live in, with the baroque centre close enough for an evening.
Questions buyers ask
What does 'independent apartment' mean here?
Your own front door does not on its own put you outside the block. Where a roof, a drain or a foundation is shared with even one other owner, the law treats it as common property and the obligations that go with it survive the private entrance. With two or three owners there is often no administrator and no formal accounts, which sounds simpler and means the costs arrive as an unbudgeted request instead of an annual figure. Ask what is shared before you assume the answer is nothing.
What work does a 1980 building in class G need?
Usually all of it: wiring, plumbing, window frames and the boiler, the full set for a block of that year still sitting in class G. Have a surveyor price it and add the figure to the asking price, because the two together are the decision. Price it on the floor you will actually walk on, not on the 140 in the table, which is a cadastral figure and counts walls and a share of the common parts: price the work on the 140 and the estimate comes out bigger than the job. We show you the difference on the plan before the viewing. And one point weighs more for a foreign buyer than the surveyor’s figure: Italian renovation reliefs are deductions against Italian income tax, claimed over several years. With no Italian income there is nothing to set them against, and the headline percentage quietly becomes zero. Price the work at full cost first, then ask a commercialista whether any relief is reachable in your case.
Is the outdoor space exclusive?
The veranda and the roof slab are treated differently, and the roof is the one to understand. Where a roof terrace is yours to use but shelters flats below, the civil code splits the cost of repairing it: a third to the owner who uses it, two thirds spread across the owners of the part of the building it covers. So the slab is an asset for solar panels and a shared liability for waterproofing at the same time. Check on the plan which flats sit under it before you budget the waterproofing as yours alone.
See it for yourself
Camillo is your contact for anything in English, and he replies personally. The roof slab is the part to see in person: only from up there does its size make sense. The days you will be in Lecce are all we need to set a time. Telephone +39 0832 391489, or leave your details in the contact form.
Reference for this property: MIL-0014. We have been FIMAA-registered agents in Lecce since 1994, we work in English every day, and the Google rating for the office is 4.9 from 59 reviews.