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#174 🥉80%  SOLD • €150k • commercial • hamlet • 750m² hub • auberge with garden at base of pyrenees
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southern France — near Saint Gaudens, (Tarbes, Toulouse)
☃️3–10–19°☀️8☁️10 • 🍂14–25°☀️7☁️10 500m
GREAT  🔨 effort
OKAY  🚌 transport
OKAY  ✈️ access
DODGY  🛒 shops
OKAY  🏙 towns
GOOD  🧗 activities
OKAY  ☀️ climate
GREAT  ⛰️ nature
GOOD  🌷 garden
GOOD  🏠 building
GOOD  🏘 hood
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Environment ✧ lower mountains, hiking on doorstep, small skiing 15mins, peaks 45mins

Services ✧ minimart, bakery, bar 20mins walk, supermarket 15mins bike; towns 25mins drive, 40mins bus 5mins walk

Access ✧ local station 15mins drive, mainline 25mins; Toulouse ~1h30 direct or bus (last 4:30pm), Paris 6h30 or overnight; airports: Tarbes 1h, Toulouse 2h

Notes ✧ removed by agents but private sale possible (if not sold)
✦ large building with 4 floors and a high attic, the lower two floors are extended with the 1st featuring a south facing solarium
✦ 4800m2 garden being flat meadow with nice trees, and possibly suitable to build an annexe of new wing
✦ the peaks surrounding reach 1200–1700m and can be hiked from the door; good serious multi-day hiking as there's lots of refuges, and the coast-to-coast GR10 route passes not far; some climbing spots, kayaking and horse riding very close; a few minutes drive and there's a small resort for airboard, nordic ski, snowshoe walks, mountain biking, mountain scooter, etc, it has however not recently had enough snowfall to remain open, a higher resort is 20mins
✦ climate has good stable number of sunny days all year but obviously colder with no vegtation in winter, although only one month would have any significant risk of snow despite the low altitude; with winter still reaching 18° it would remain fairly pleasant but would favour work-focus rather than outdoor focus except during snow
✦ there's three moderate towns within reach, Bagneres is a ski station and reasonably well provided for, Montrejeu is small and ammenable, both 25mins drive; St-Gaudens is a bit larger with 4 busses daily in 40mins (driving 30mins) but entirely unnotable; the local station (20mins bike) serves both and is reopening soon with hydrogen trains, some of which will serve Toulouse directly
✦ the small city of Tarbes with airport is 1h drive (longer with transit) so suitable for days out, and is 15mins further
building is boring and a bit ugly, but could be made cool with murals, climbing plants and extra terrace; similarly the garden could be improved with a gazebo, small amphithetre, firepit, etc
✦ ground and 1st floors, 200m2; 2nd and 3rd 140m2, attic same but awkward (good for pods)
✦ beam-block (concrete and brick) construction with modern tile roof in good condition
✦ fibre is planned for 2022; exchange is 2.2km so inadequate for DSL, there is however a mobile antenna carrying all providers with good coverage at 1.8km
✦ there is a small ugly marble quarry at the extrance to the village, but the buildings are hidden from the property itself, and it is not in heavy use cadastral data, parcel 926
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