Two thousand square metres of private land, a five-to-seven-minute drive from the Ionian beaches, and a house from the 1960s that has been waiting for someone with a plan. The land is the main thing on offer here.
What you get
The whole house needs renovating: wiring, plumbing, windows, heating. Get a builder to price that work before you decide, because that figure and the asking price are one decision, not two.
The living accommodation is on the ground floor, set over several internal levels: a living room, a small kitchen, three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a hallway, 185 square metres in total. The 45 m² taverna is in the basement.
| Price | €438,000 |
|---|---|
| Floor area | 230 m² |
| Plot | 2,000 m² |
| Bedrooms | 3 |
| Bathrooms | 2 |
| Rooms | 5 |
| Energy class | G |
| Condition | In need of renovation |
| Reference | MIL-0011 |
Where it is
Poggio is the residential inland district of Porto Cesareo, near Via Socrate, five to seven minutes by car from the beaches. Large plots, low building density, quiet.
It is where the villas with real land are in this comune. Along the coast, in the marinas of Porto Cesareo, small houses and holiday-village flats predominate.
Questions buyers ask
What can be done with the 2,000 m² of land?
Ask us for the planning designation certificate even though this sale does not require one. Attaching it to the deed is the general rule whenever land is sold. The exemption covers a plot that serves a building already on the register and stays below the five-thousand-square-metre mark, which is where this one sits, so the deed can be signed without it. It remains the only document that states what may actually be built on this plot, the comune issues it within thirty days, and it holds good for a year unless the planning instruments change in the meantime. Read it before you commit to the two thousand square metres.
Is the basement taverna habitable?
Only where the deposited plans record it as living space and the room meets the minimum height and ventilation. On a basement of this age the usual answer is no: one of this kind is normally recorded as an accessory, which carries a much lower rateable value and, on the commercial measure Italian agents quote, counts at a fraction of its area instead of all of it. That matters here, because the 230 m² in the table is the ground floor and the taverna added straight together, 185 plus 45. Measured commercially the figure would come out lower. The cadastral record and the building title settle which of the two it is, and we read both while you are still deciding: the answer moves the value and what the space may be used for. Converting the room is a permit application, not a decorating decision.
See it for yourself
Let us know which week you will be over and the house will be unlocked for you. Bring a builder along if you can: the renovation figure is easier to pin down in the rooms than from photographs. Camillo answers the English enquiries; phone us on +39 0832 391489, or write to him through the contact form.
Reference for this property: MIL-0011. 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.