and to financially support the houses owners to start
construction work aimed at improving the energy
performance indices and at the static safety of the
properties. The tax benefit on building
refurbishment interventions is regulated by art. 16-
bis of Presidential Decree No. 917/1986 [9] and
subsequent updates and modifications (Law No.
449/1997 [8], Law Decree No. 83/2012 [10], Law
Decree No. 63/2013 [11], Law Decree No. 34/2020
[12]). The main fiscal measure provides for a
deduction from the income tax - divided into ten
annual instalments of the same monetary amount -
at 50% for building renovation with a spending limit
of 96,000 € per residential unit and at 65% for
energy retrofit initiatives aimed at saving primary
energy need for a maximum deduction equal to
100.000 € or to 60.000 € for installation of
photovoltaic panels or to 30.000 € for the
replacement of air conditioning systems (Arts. 14 e
16-ter, Law Decree No. 63/2013 [11] updated in
Law No. 90/2013 [13] and art. 1, par. 58 Law No.
178/2020 [14]).
Furthermore, the art. 121 of 2020 Budget Law
No. 34 [12] has included i) the “discount on the
invoice” among the benefits provided, i.e. a
contribution up to a maximum total intervention
amount estimated, advanced by the construction
companies and recovered by them in the tax credit
form, equal to the deduction due, with the
possibility to subsequently assign the credit to other
subjects, including credit institutions and other
financial intermediaries and ii) the transfer of a tax
credit equal to the intervention amount, with the
option of subsequent credit assignment to banks or
financial institutions.
Finally, with regards to the energy efficiency
interventions (named “Eco-Bonus”) and to seismic
risk reduction (named “Sisma-Bonus”), the Super-
Bonus 110% (art. 119 of Law Decree No. 34/2020
[12], updated by the Law No. 77/2020 [15]) plays a
relevant role in the existing properties assets
refurbishment, by raising the deduction rate for
costs incurred from 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2022 to
110%, for specific energy efficiency and anti-
seismic interventions, installation of photovoltaic
systems or infrastructures for charging electric
vehicles. The incentive allows, on the one hand, to
trigger new construction sites and, on the other
hand, to strongly reduce the energy expenditure for
the housing owners, to make their residential
properties healthier, static safer and more
comfortable and to obtain significant monetary
savings.
This research concerns of the topic illustrated.
With reference to the existing property assets, the
issue of the costs constitutes a relevant question, in
particular related to the modalities for the building
transformation interventions costs estimation. In this
sense, several studies have been developed with the
goal to assess the amounts necessary for the project
implementation in monetary terms, both by
considering realization ex-novo interventions [16,
17, 18] that of reconstruction or redevelopment
ones. Furthermore, others studies have been focused
on the analysis of the existence of likely changes in
the residential selling prices determined by the
construction costs for the building realization. These
researches, in fact, have aimed at investigating the
functional correlations between the construction
costs and the housing prices of the properties. A
detailed analysis of the existing reference literature
has been included in Morano et al. [19] intended to
explore the relationships between the construction
and refurbishment costs and the properties prices
and in which the convenience of refurbishment
investments related to housings in the Italian context
has been examined.
2 Aim
With reference to a study sample of 965 recently
refurbished residential properties and collected in
103 Italian provincial capitals, the paper aims at
investigating the functional correlation between the
refurbishment costs in the residential property
segment and the relative selling prices.
Firstly, it should be outlined that in the present
research for each city the "ordinary" refurbishment
costs have been examined, by taking into account a
standard renovation project that concerns the
complete reconstructing of the floors, plasters,
fixtures and windows and systems (water, heating
and electric ones) [19].
In the analysis, the implementation of an
econometric technique on the study sample, divided
into three territorial clusters – Northern Italy,
Central Italy, Southern Italy and Islands [4] – aims
to study the different functional relationships
between the refurbishment costs and the housing
prices. According to the differences in the costs and
the income that characterize the three Italian
clusters, the analysis intends to compare the outputs
obtained for each area in terms of average influence
of refurbishment costs in the formation mechanisms
of the residential selling prices.
The results obtained could constitute a useful
reference for i) the Public Administrations in order
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DOI: 10.37394/23207.2022.19.37
P. Morano, F. Tajani, F. Di Liddo,
M. Locurcio, D. Anelli