u/kellerloch

We are in the middle of buying a small barn (70 sqm) that needs to be completely renovated. When meeting with a local architect (whose other works we really like) he told us his fee will be 20000 Euros and around 8-10 percent of the construction costs. When we were building our house in Austria, we payed a percentage of the construction costs but the 20000 Euros seem way to much. Especially when the estimated construction costs are around 100000 Euros. Does anyone here has any experience with paying architects in Italy?