| Price | €267,500 £214,254* | Ref | 24497EV34 |
| Town | Magalas | Dept | Herault |
| Floor | 167 M2 | Plot Size | 90 M2 |
| Bath | 2 | Bed | 4 |
Emma Voysey Independent Agent, says :
On the edge of a small village, just 3 kms from Gabian & 5km from Magalas, this spacious house has been nicely renovated, has a garden & a large 1st floor terrace, the possibility to create an apartment with its own entrance & with unspoilt views across the neighbouring fields. It has 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, one with a walk in Italian shower, a modern fitted kitchen complete with all appliances, new double glazed windows & reversible air conditioning, all the costly renovations have been done & it just remains for you to put your own stamp on the place. Plenty of original features such as visible beams, old marble fireplaces & stonework have been retained, giving character to this modernised Vigneron's house. There's also a huge 55m2 garage & adjacent workshop.
The outside of the whole building has been newly rendered & painted. All the plumbing, electrics & the roof are in good order. Entering the house from the garden, via 2 sets of glass patio doors, which allow light to flood inside, you find yourself in the living room with open plan kitchen adjacent. also on this floor there is a bathroom & a ground floor bedroom, with open fireplace, which could also be used as another sitting room or an office.
A mezzanine area of 18m2 above the living room (another good office space) utilises the high ceilings & leads through to a large bedroom with a dressing room. 2 more double bedrooms, plus the Italian tiled bathroom & the upstairs front entrance, are found on this floor, plus a library area, dressing (huge built in wardrobe in the hallway) & the sunny terrasse which overlooks the garden.
Beziers is 20 minutes away by car. There is a bakery van which delivers to the village, plus a Poissonier (for fish) on Thursdays, a primeur (for vegetables) on Tuesdays & a Boucherie(for meat) on Saturdays. Nearby Gabian has all local commerce & Magalas, a large village of several thousand inhabitants has schools up to college level, plus banks, shops, restaurants, a train station & doctors & dentists.
| Logement économe | Logement |
≤ 50 |
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51-90 |
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91-150 |
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151-230 |
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231-330 |
292 kWh |
331-449 |
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>450 |
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| Logement énergivore |
| Faible émission de GES | Logement |
≤ 6 |
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6-10 |
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11-20 |
18 kg |
21-35 |
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36-55 |
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56-80 |
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>81 |
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| Forte émission de GES |
Herault, department number 34, is located in the South of France on the Mediterranean coast and has a fantastic year round climate. It is famous for its full-bodied red wines and for its oyster beds along the coast in the Bassin de Thau.
Montpellier is the capital of both the Hérault department and the Languedoc-Roussillon region, and is the driving force behind the regional economy with high tech industries in Agropolis and Euromedecine. The area has seen a dramatic transformation during the last 50 years. The rise of a strong left of centre local government has left a legacy of good housing, pedestrianisation of town centres and a public transportation network that is second to none.
Béziers is further to the south, renowned for its ancient bridge. It has a population of 70,000 and is the unofficial capital of the largest wine-producing region in France, with vineywards dominating much of the local landscape.
Elsewhere, the town of Sete is the most important fishing port on the French Mediterranean coast and Le Cap d'Agde is the largest purpose built tourist resort in the whole of Europe. It can accommodate up to 100,000 tourists at any one time. Nearby is Saint-Guilhem-le-Desert, one of France's most beautiful villages.
Flying into Herault couldn't be easier. There is an international airport in Montpellier and a smaller one in Béziers, with mainly flights from Paris. Although Ryanair now has a service from Bristol to Béziers three times a week. Montpellier has regular flights to and from the UK with Ryanair, GB Airways and British Airways. The fast and comfortable TGV train service also runs through to Montpellier.
In terms of french property, Montpellier is the most expensive city in the Languedoc-Roussillon and has experienced a 25 percent increase in prices over the last five years. Outside Montpellier, the trend remains similar, as the Hérault is an increasingly popular place in which to own property - but in the rural villages and hamlets further inland, there are still bargain french properties to be found.
* The currency conversion is for convenience of reference only