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#277 🥉80%   €155k • rustic • town • 510m² mini-hub • townhouse in impressive medieval town
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Villefranche, Averyon — near Figeac, (Cahors, Albi)
☃️2–9–16°☀️6☁️13 • 🍂12–23°☀️7☁️12
GOOD  🔨 effort
GOOD  🚌 transport
OKAY  ✈️ access
GOOD  🛒 shops
GOOD  🏙 towns
GOOD  🧗 activities
OKAY  ☀️ climate
GOOD  ⛰️ nature
DODGY  🌷 garden
GOOD  🏠 building
GOOD  ⛲️ hood
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Environment ✧ steep wooded river valleys and agricultural

Services ✧ all

Access ✧ station 5mins walk; 1h45 Toulouse (last 7pm) +45mins airport, 6h Barcelona (2 changes), 7h Paris (last 2pm) or night trains

Notes ✧ due to being partly protected, shops moving out, and the costs of bringing buildings up to standard, >35% are empty, there is however a plan for more public spaces and improved streetscape
✦ has some quiet riverfront paths with 1 big open park 10mins walk, a path going 20mins to the south, and a 25min loop, so some limited strolls are possible; 20mins bike to tennis (2 covered courts somewhere…)
✦ a couple of biking circuits start 10mins away and exetnd to Najac and St Matrin where it possible start or return by train, or skip the more difficult bits (lots of climbing)
✦ no hiking from door, however the train offers some variety with 4 stations (15–40mins) offering options both by bike and foot albeit with the shortest return being 3h45, giving opportunities for more relaxed hikes with lunch stop (returns at 2:30pm and 6pm, but more out)
✦ fairly calm kayaking is possible from the town, or at Najac (Apr-Oct) with SUP as well
✦ 30mins drive to a fairly technical via ferrata above river
small but pretty town of Figeac at 35mins train is a good trip, with an 8pm bus back
✦ several great villages: medieval Caylus 30mins bus, St-Cirq on the lot gorges 45mins drive, as is Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val where there's good biking and hiking for occasional variation
✦ Cahors and Albi are also possible at 1h drive for more rare daytrips with diversions to break the journey
✦ Gaillac at 1h train is however more reasonable
access is good from Toulouse airport, but labourious from anywhere else
✦ night train is either longer via Toulouse, or with a 6am short change
could easily function as a mini-hub as there's no coworking currently, though the town is plannign to open a tiers lieux however these rarely offer dynamic coworking
Property ✧ not particularly good value
✦ 193m2 footprint in 2 adjoined buildings with streets on 3 sides
✦ potential for 25m2 of roof terrace but probably too much work versus simply having a covered sun room with open front as is the local style
✦ parcel 97
✦ 55m2 east with 4 floors +attic (1 dormer) =250; 3 windows across west, 2 to south
✦ 85m2 west with 2 floors +attic (possibly some mezzanine at ground as is tall) =250; 2 windows across south, unknown to east possibly limited
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