Perdue
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#322 🥈84% SOLD? • €49k • typical • town • 900m² hub • good building in relaxed area
GOOD 🔨 effort
GOOD 🚌 transport
OKAY ✈️ access
GOOD 🛒 shops
OKAY 🏙 towns
OKAY 🧗 activities
GOOD ☀️ climate
OKAY ⛰️ nature
GOOD 🌷 garden
GOOD 🏠 building
GOOD ⛲️ hood
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Condom, south-west France — near Agen
☃️3–10–19°☀️3☁️5 • 🍂14–26°☀️5☁️3
☃️3–10–19°☀️3☁️5 • 🍂14–26°☀️5☁️3
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Environment ✧ agricultural plains, river and woods
Services ✧ all; supermarkets inc organic 10mins walk
Access ✧ station 45mins drive/1h bus: 1h10 Toulouse +1h airport, 1h Bordeaux +1h airport, 3h30 Paris
Dedicated units for full-time residence.
Notes/Area ✧ unremarkable but nicely presentable little town with a couple of pleasant streets and recent renewal works
✦ environment offers no adventure whatsoever, very easy and tame surroundings with a few monuments and nice villages, but more to explore if making a daytrip of it
✦ would be predominantly inward focussed requring lots of organised events including outdoor sports (badminton, frisbee, …) and indoor connecting with the community thus ideal for work-focus, not bad as base but max six months a year if that, thus would need additional properties to give more options
land of the musketeers, armagnac and uh, foie gras, oh, and popcorn
jazz club (association) 3 doors down with occasional performances
✦ theatre
✦ great big grassy riverfront parkland 5mins walk
✦ gym 5mins
✦ tennis 15mins walk (4 indoors)
✦ twice weekly covered market; good restaurants
✦ short greenway but possible connection onwards to Mont de Marsan (50km); several possible gentle biking circuits, 2 FFC (apparently with 300–600m of cumulative ascent)
✦ long river path with bus return
✦ river is navigable so boat rental trips possible
✦ Nerac 20mins drive
✦ multiple locations for kayaking 20mins
✦ 20mins drive to start of woods
✦ bus to Eauze 35mins
✦ 50mins drive deep into wood / lake with SUP/other little towns
✦ 1h drive Villeneuve sur lot
✦ the main French Camino route passes through the town, with another, whilst the one from Paris joins at the next village
Agen 45mins drive/50mins bus 5x daily (last 7:30pm); decent town for variety future TGV station 30mins drive (operational 2032) for 30mins to both Bordeaux and Toulouse, 2h45 Paris, significantly simplifying access if pickups offered (likely; improvement not relevent by bus because of likely bad timings) and could easily combine with a trip into town/shopping
✦ Auch 1h bus, 45mins drive
both the mountains and beaches are 2h drive so not implausible for group weekends away in AirBnB/camping, yet better to have satellite properties that offer the adventure with a hub like this offering facilities and comforts (but not as comparable versus a hub offering both)
only vaguely plausible but the rail line could reopen with one of the future lightweight rail services
very few completely clear sunny days, but also very little significant cloud cover; very hot in summer(!); one of least populated areas in France, the prefecture has only 20k people, and this the third biggest town just 6k
✦ environment offers no adventure whatsoever, very easy and tame surroundings with a few monuments and nice villages, but more to explore if making a daytrip of it
✦ would be predominantly inward focussed requring lots of organised events including outdoor sports (badminton, frisbee, …) and indoor connecting with the community thus ideal for work-focus, not bad as base but max six months a year if that, thus would need additional properties to give more options
land of the musketeers, armagnac and uh, foie gras, oh, and popcorn
jazz club (association) 3 doors down with occasional performances
✦ theatre
✦ great big grassy riverfront parkland 5mins walk
✦ gym 5mins
✦ tennis 15mins walk (4 indoors)
✦ twice weekly covered market; good restaurants
✦ short greenway but possible connection onwards to Mont de Marsan (50km); several possible gentle biking circuits, 2 FFC (apparently with 300–600m of cumulative ascent)
✦ long river path with bus return
✦ river is navigable so boat rental trips possible
✦ Nerac 20mins drive
✦ multiple locations for kayaking 20mins
✦ 20mins drive to start of woods
✦ bus to Eauze 35mins
✦ 50mins drive deep into wood / lake with SUP/other little towns
✦ 1h drive Villeneuve sur lot
✦ the main French Camino route passes through the town, with another, whilst the one from Paris joins at the next village
Agen 45mins drive/50mins bus 5x daily (last 7:30pm); decent town for variety future TGV station 30mins drive (operational 2032) for 30mins to both Bordeaux and Toulouse, 2h45 Paris, significantly simplifying access if pickups offered (likely; improvement not relevent by bus because of likely bad timings) and could easily combine with a trip into town/shopping
✦ Auch 1h bus, 45mins drive
both the mountains and beaches are 2h drive so not implausible for group weekends away in AirBnB/camping, yet better to have satellite properties that offer the adventure with a hub like this offering facilities and comforts (but not as comparable versus a hub offering both)
only vaguely plausible but the rail line could reopen with one of the future lightweight rail services
very few completely clear sunny days, but also very little significant cloud cover; very hot in summer(!); one of least populated areas in France, the prefecture has only 20k people, and this the third biggest town just 6k
Notes/Property ✧ compare with #315
✦ for sale for ages with falling price
✦ delisted within days with the new agent, may return if financing is not closed
amusingly address could be #1 Rue Perdue (Lost road; but really an alley)
✦ would function as a pretty good hub, if not quite as easy to access as others
✦ a veritable steal, and whilst Castellas is just as cheap in a similar state, yet with a nicer plot and better layout, this is not subject to proceedings, has far far fewer windows to replace, and low tax meaning low risk until works complete
street has some through traffic but one-way only and probably not notable
two parcels with 535m2 footprint, the streetfront house, and an annexe/warehouse behind
✦ nice (but small) semi-spiral staircase with skylight
✦ attic is limited by beams, has 2 small windows and could gain skylights, best for mezzanines, optionally but pointlessly a roof terrace with view
✦ 1st-2nd 7 north-west windows onto street
actually about 600m2 in the house, the rest is the warehouse and annexe
✦ main building divided between 140m2 primary/corner and 60m2 side (almost triangular with 2 windows at front, 1 at back) with 3 floors
✦ + 100m2 annexe between house and warehouse with flat roof and south exposure but no view
✦ + 120m2 warehouse (2 floors, 1st currently 2/3, possibly needing replacing)
✦ both have only a couple of large ground windows on north, however the 1st floor could have skylights, or windows could be put into the top of the walls as currently unsealed
✦ 20m2 courtyard with 20m2 shed(?) to be demolished for bigger courtyard
✦ ground floor has 2 large garage doors at front and needs flooring all the way through including the warehouse (360m2!), given as the upper floors will probably be nice, could mostly just be finished as polished concrete (possibly parts with underfloor heating)
✦ 2nd floor at back has small covered terrace that would be reclaimed as the terrace below it is more than adequate
partition walls and ceiling plasterwork was cleared in 2013 and thus floors are open ready for refit
✦ excellent open floors for repurposing
✦ no infra needs full fitout
✦ basic functionality would not be difficult to acheive (dedicated units might require more significant work)
✦ roof is watertight but beams are old and have had additional supports added at various times, at the least some tiles need reseating
✦ floor beams have impressive spans and may need support columns (minor)
✦ windows are repairable for interim but need replacing
capacity would mainly be work and event spaces but extra investment would allow converting the warehouse with rooms/units on its upper floor having seperated access to the roof terrace and main building
✦ might be possible to have narrow 'monk' rooms to increase capacity, plausibly ensuite else with shared baths
✦ given the low capacity dedicated units would be limited to rooms or microunits, however there's the possibility of 1-2 studios, perhaps 2 duplex units at the end of the warehouse though this is by far most suited to cinema/events being far from the main building
probably also includes parcel 143, a 28m2 parking space next to the warehouse, but not the next larger one which is divided by a wall
garden is ranked higher due to proximity of park
✦ tax €1500 (but would increase)
✦ for sale for ages with falling price
✦ delisted within days with the new agent, may return if financing is not closed
amusingly address could be #1 Rue Perdue (Lost road; but really an alley)
✦ would function as a pretty good hub, if not quite as easy to access as others
✦ a veritable steal, and whilst Castellas is just as cheap in a similar state, yet with a nicer plot and better layout, this is not subject to proceedings, has far far fewer windows to replace, and low tax meaning low risk until works complete
street has some through traffic but one-way only and probably not notable
two parcels with 535m2 footprint, the streetfront house, and an annexe/warehouse behind
✦ nice (but small) semi-spiral staircase with skylight
✦ attic is limited by beams, has 2 small windows and could gain skylights, best for mezzanines, optionally but pointlessly a roof terrace with view
✦ 1st-2nd 7 north-west windows onto street
actually about 600m2 in the house, the rest is the warehouse and annexe
✦ main building divided between 140m2 primary/corner and 60m2 side (almost triangular with 2 windows at front, 1 at back) with 3 floors
✦ + 100m2 annexe between house and warehouse with flat roof and south exposure but no view
✦ + 120m2 warehouse (2 floors, 1st currently 2/3, possibly needing replacing)
✦ both have only a couple of large ground windows on north, however the 1st floor could have skylights, or windows could be put into the top of the walls as currently unsealed
✦ 20m2 courtyard with 20m2 shed(?) to be demolished for bigger courtyard
✦ ground floor has 2 large garage doors at front and needs flooring all the way through including the warehouse (360m2!), given as the upper floors will probably be nice, could mostly just be finished as polished concrete (possibly parts with underfloor heating)
✦ 2nd floor at back has small covered terrace that would be reclaimed as the terrace below it is more than adequate
partition walls and ceiling plasterwork was cleared in 2013 and thus floors are open ready for refit
✦ excellent open floors for repurposing
✦ no infra needs full fitout
✦ basic functionality would not be difficult to acheive (dedicated units might require more significant work)
✦ roof is watertight but beams are old and have had additional supports added at various times, at the least some tiles need reseating
✦ floor beams have impressive spans and may need support columns (minor)
✦ windows are repairable for interim but need replacing
capacity would mainly be work and event spaces but extra investment would allow converting the warehouse with rooms/units on its upper floor having seperated access to the roof terrace and main building
✦ might be possible to have narrow 'monk' rooms to increase capacity, plausibly ensuite else with shared baths
✦ given the low capacity dedicated units would be limited to rooms or microunits, however there's the possibility of 1-2 studios, perhaps 2 duplex units at the end of the warehouse though this is by far most suited to cinema/events being far from the main building
probably also includes parcel 143, a 28m2 parking space next to the warehouse, but not the next larger one which is divided by a wall
garden is ranked higher due to proximity of park
✦ tax €1500 (but would increase)
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