Period villa to renovate, private park — San Luigi

San Luigi is one of those Trieste hillsides where the traffic simply falls away, and yet the centre is a few minutes downhill. At number 3 of Via Ippolito Pindemonte stands a detached period villa that asks to be reinvented, floor to floor.

The house rises over three above-ground storeys and a semi-basement, linked only by internal staircases. There is no lift, and a buyer should factor that in. What looks like a single villa is, on paper, already three: its 394 sqm of cadastral surface are split into three self-contained units, all in category A/7. The principal one, 245 sqm and 6.5 rooms, climbs from the semi-basement all the way to the second floor; a second apartment of 89 sqm and 4 rooms occupies the first floor; a third, 60 sqm and 3.5 rooms, sits on the second. Fourteen rooms in total. Two cellars fill the basement level, and a veranda opens off the ground floor onto the garden. Ceilings on the main floors come close to three metres, a proportion new construction rarely offers.

The garden belongs to the property and steps down over several levels, held back from the road by a retaining wall. There is no parking as things stand; but that same wall, with the leverage of the regional Piano Casa, lends itself to carving out underground garages, no small thing on this hill. These are indicative possibilities, to be confirmed with your own surveyor at the municipal offices.

Everything here is to be redone, services included, and that is exactly where the opportunity sits. Three distinct cadastral entities, a sizeable private garden and the expansion margins of the Piano Casa open up several routes: a small condominium of three apartments, a two-family arrangement, or a return to the single-family villa it once was.

The sale is made as a whole (a corpo), in the factual and legal state in which the property stands, and it may not be handed over clear of contents; every technical, cadastral and planning check falls to the buyer. It is a private sale, so no VAT applies, only registration tax. The property is vacant and unoccupied, so viewings can be arranged with no notice required.

Price €620,000.