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Languedoc Lifestyle Home + Income €162,500 (approx £125,000*) South of France

This beautifully renovated semi-detached property with gardens and terrace, one hour from the Mediterranean beaches of Valras and Serignan, is located in a hamlet in the heart of the Haut Languedoc National Park in the Hérault region, France’s most popular holiday destination.

Live in one, rent out the other (or both)!

Possibility of buying fully furnished and equipped for letting. Ready for the 2014 season.


Living accommodation

  • The house of 135m2 has been divided into two by an internal lockable door; each part has a separate main entrance.
  • Each half of the house has modern kitchen facilities, with fitted oven/hob and cooker hood, and open-plan dining and living room. One half has 2 floors above ground floor, with 3 bedrooms (currently one double and x2 twin rooms) and a shower/toilet. The other half has one floor above ground floor level and has 2 bedrooms (currently one double, one bunk bed/single room) with shower/toilet and mezzanine.
  • Roof beams and original features have been blended harmoniously with the modern renovations, in keeping with this over 100-year old property. Electric radiators throughout, quality wooden double glazing, insulation, tiled or easy-care laminated flooring. Renovations completed in 2007, including roof, electrics and plumbing. Town water and sewerage. Broadband coverage.

Gardens

Garden is planted with perennials, with raised beds in the vegetable garden and a unroofed, stone building with concrete pad floor, previously used to house above-ground swimming, and awaiting further renovation – summer house, spa, games room, sleep-out – numerous possibilities.

 Location

  • Hamlet is surrounded by wooded hills, terraces, chestnut trees and numerous walking and mountain biking tracks.
  • Trout fishing nearby. Beautiful secluded swimming lake 20 mins’ walk away. Goat cheese farm short walk away.
  • Nearby Saint Gervais-sur-Mare is on the Saint Jacques de Compostelle pilgrimage route, the GR653, which begins in Arles and ends in Spain.

 Distances and travel

  • St Gervais sur Mare is the nearest village (6km). Pizzeria, grocery shop, tabac, bar, post office, école primaire, collège, sports hall, la Mairie, etc.

  • Bédarieux and Lamalou-les-Bains are the nearest towns approx 18km away, with supermarkets, hospitals, shops, restaurants, swimming pools, lycée, train and bus stations.

  • Nearest airport Béziers Cap d'Agde, outside Béziers, nearest major city, approx 60km.

  • Montpellier city and airport, approx 90km. 

  • Perpignan, Carcassonne and Nimes airports are all around 2 hours' drive away.

  • Girona airport in Spain is about 3 hours' drive away. Barcelona 3.5 hours away.

 

Further details

Diagnostics (DPE) completed - please request full details.

  • Émissions de GES – 10 (band B)
  • Logement économe – 192 (band D)

 For further details and photos, see our (now unused) lettings website on www.giteshautlanguedoc.com or contact us through ebay. Viewing are possible – contact us to discuss.

*Please note that this property will be sold in euros and not in pounds sterling – the figure in £ pounds given above is an approximate equivalent as of 17 July 2014.