33 St-Martin
property details
for a Hub House co-operative coliving project

Area ✧ a fairly lively little riverfront town in a locality with (prettier) typically French villages and castles all about, and offering varied attractions heading into the hills, plus down the lower valley and towards the plains; is well known for is sparkling wine, and has a nice square
✦ during the off season, there's carnival events every weekend for several months helps offset the slightly dreary climate
✦ a nearby village hosts a well known weekly creative/hippie market with many foreign alternative folks living around
✦ in 35mins drive another small town has an even more picture-postcard medieval square

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only one there-and-back hike from the door, but climbs onto a ridge going a long way; others start 20mins along lanes; good variety for biking
✦ more adventurous routes closeby (and possible by bus); wild swimming and warm springs; cathar castles, great countryside, mystical woods, forests, gorges and a via ferrata in around 30mins
✦ many activity centres offering kayak, rafting, canyoning, climbing etc, plus 2 lakes also 30mins drive

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station with all trips at €1 with Carcassonne (last 7pm) in 30mins; slated for reopening into the mountains around 2025 putting more villages and Quillan at the end of the line in reach for better hiking/biking
✦ daily Barcelona train April-September, a seasonal flight to Porto, and 4 more cheapflight airports including for Morocco, plus there's a Lisbon Flixbus; the Paris night train runs only some days (daily may be restored), all other cases require a change in Narbonne or Toulouse
✦ the heart of the mountains is a hefty drive at 1h30, same for the coast so not reasonable for a day out, however there is a lake in 35mins with boats and SUP but the rivers are much better, and there's close peaks of 1200m
✦ the climate is better than down in the valley because it's sheltered from the winds that carry rain down there, thus there's a decent number of mild sunny days to take advantage of the outdoors even in winter

property detail ↗︎

Property ✧ apparently sold 2012, but probably fell through
✦ two adjoined buildings with a common 18m streetfront facade having 8 windows along, thus super easy to add good coliving rooms
✦ 233m2 footprint
✦ 2 of the facade windows are actually part of another parcel to the south (274), plus part of its rear is also on another parcel for the building it backs onto on the next street (parcel 275; sold for 175k 2022, and previously 2010), both on a courtyard so possibly has a shared staircase, however the buildings are not in a copropriete so use and division may not be concise as the entire set of building were previously all used by the same vinyard
✦ unfortunately faces east and slightly north thus looses sun before midday, and the rear has very limited windows mostly backing straight onto other buildings
✦ a 20m2 section of roof looks suitable to remove as a south facing roof terrace/conservatory
  ✧ north building is 12.5m deep and 80m2, with small rear windows being open on two angles, and west onto a 20m2 north courtyard
  ✧ middle section 50m2 11.8m deep, and also potentially with a small west window
  ✧ south 45m2 5.7m shallow
✦ 175m2 per floor *3
✦ ground floor very tall and undeveloped
✦ notable staircase uses at least 10m2
✦ attic has windows, but low, and one section is lower but probably suitable for mezzanines or pods
✦ all windows are old but mostly recoverable for interim use
✦ one section appears to have a basement