Friperie Belge
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#342 🥉82% PICK • €90k • typical • town • 800m² hub • imposing tall empty building in good little town and locality
POOR 🔨 effort
GOOD 🚌 transport
GOOD ✈️ access
GOOD 🛒 shops
OKAY 🏙 towns
GREAT 🧗 activities
OKAY ☀️ climate
GOOD ⛰️ nature
OKAY 🌷 garden
GOOD 🏠 building
GOOD ⛲️ hood
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Limoux, low Pyrenees — near Limoux, Mirepoix, Carcassonne, Castelnaudry
☃️3–10–17°☀️2☁️5 • 🍂13–23°☀️3☁️3
☃️3–10–17°☀️2☁️5 • 🍂13–23°☀️3☁️3
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Environment ✧ river valley below Pyrenees, hillside vinyards, scrub woods and rocky outcrops
Services ✧ all
Access ✧ station 10mins walk; town/mainline station/airport 30mins: +1h Toulouse, +2h30 Barcelona, +5h30 Paris or night
Dedicated units for full-time residence.
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
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
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
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✦ 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
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
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
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Property ✧ parcel 256
✦ last advertised at 110k several years ago, so this price is a guess as no longer listed; owner could be found as used to have business at the address
✦ plenty big enough to function as a hub which given as the town is good and has lots of villages could be well used, there is already a small tiers-lieux with fablab and cafe but limited workspaces
4 floors of 160m2 plus attic
✦ front and back on different streets, plus length along an alley
✦ only 2 windows along length at ground floor (blocked in narrow alley along length) and 5 but still blocked by houses on 1st, but with 4 at each end (20m long; 8–9m deep)
✦ 3rd floor and attic have excellent views to the hills and mountains, facing south-east and south-west for all-day sun
✦ was raised at some point quite a long time ago creating the attic, height of 3rd floor may need lowering to allow use of attic which has bricked up windows though strictly these are not needed to the north, would still be worth opening for all-around views
✦ attic could be simplified with great premium mezzanine rooms, plus a tall open area also having a mezzanine and functioning as a solarium with lots of plants to make up for the lack of a garden, this could reduce size down to 640m2
✦ scaffolding may not be essential
✦ roof appears okay but apparently some floor beams may need work
whilst solid is in very poor condition with no infrastructure thus requiring full fitout and finishing, however probably little requires clearing
✦ last advertised at 110k several years ago, so this price is a guess as no longer listed; owner could be found as used to have business at the address
✦ plenty big enough to function as a hub which given as the town is good and has lots of villages could be well used, there is already a small tiers-lieux with fablab and cafe but limited workspaces
4 floors of 160m2 plus attic
✦ front and back on different streets, plus length along an alley
✦ only 2 windows along length at ground floor (blocked in narrow alley along length) and 5 but still blocked by houses on 1st, but with 4 at each end (20m long; 8–9m deep)
✦ 3rd floor and attic have excellent views to the hills and mountains, facing south-east and south-west for all-day sun
✦ was raised at some point quite a long time ago creating the attic, height of 3rd floor may need lowering to allow use of attic which has bricked up windows though strictly these are not needed to the north, would still be worth opening for all-around views
✦ attic could be simplified with great premium mezzanine rooms, plus a tall open area also having a mezzanine and functioning as a solarium with lots of plants to make up for the lack of a garden, this could reduce size down to 640m2
✦ scaffolding may not be essential
✦ roof appears okay but apparently some floor beams may need work
whilst solid is in very poor condition with no infrastructure thus requiring full fitout and finishing, however probably little requires clearing
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