Condition: Good
Full Description: At last a residence that fulfils all of the criteria that you've been looking for in a full time or holiday home near the Med coast in South West France. 'Villa Bergame' is located in Béziers, a town benefitting from an extensive prgramme of regeneration, and with many advantages such as:

- Just a few minutes' drive to the A9 motorway, and the coast (Valras Plage, Serignan, Portiragnes, Marseillan, Cap d'Agde, etc)
- The new A75 motorway extension linking Béziers and the A9 with Paris to open in early 2010
- Newly re-opened Béziers-Vias airport served by low-cost airline Ryanair, with flights to Bristol and Stansted (changing to Luton in October 08)
- Other airports close by giving a range of choice for costs and times when booking (Montpellier 30 mins, Carcassone, Perpignan and Nîmes 50 mins)
- Barcelona 3 hours away
- Pyrenean ski resorts 2 hours away
- Massive investment into Béziers itself with satellite arm of Montpellier University now open, enormous state-of-the-art business/shopping/sport/bars/restaurants/apartments district (l'Hours) under construction near to the railway station
- Views of the Meditarranean Sea

The Residence Villa Bergame
Built and delivered in four phases (143 apartments in total), with the first and second complete, sold out and inhabited already. The third phase is complete and available to purchase (Buildings D and E). The fourth phase is yet to be built, but disruption has already been kept to a minimum and all site facilities are operational.

Located on the North-West edge of Béziers, just off the Avenue de Languedoc and a minute's drive to the highly sought-after village of Boujan (now considered as almost the 'posh suburb of Béziers'). The district around the residence is distinctly middle-class, with well-kept, individual villas set in their own gardens and clean, well-lit roads.

The pool (19m x 8m) is heated to 27° and fully operational, with secure card entry access currently from 9am to 9pm. There is a shallow pool area, aesthetic, tiered, stucco concrete curved viewing benches to one end and a wall shower near the entrance.

The communal areas benefit from top quality floor tiling and modern art on the walls. As well as clean, well-lit curved stairwells, there are large pristine lifts (8 people) in each lobby to transport you smoothly to your chosen floor.

The apartments themselves range in size from 45m² for a one-bed to 86m² (for a two-or three-bed). Ask me for more details and I will send you a full breakdown of sizes of the apartments, terraces, lot plans, prices etc.

The prices are amazingly reasonable, given the location, and the quality of build, fixtures and fittings, communal areas and facilities.

The sizes vary so, for instance, there is a choice of either a one-bed or a two-bed in almost the same surface area. Prices calculate at approximately 2,600€ per m².

Examples
1-bed 45.37m² = 120,000€
2-bed 49.51m² = 128,000€
1-bed 55.05m² = 140,000€
1-bed 60.72m² = 165,000€
2-bed 69.86m² = 172,500€
2-bed 86.3m² = 225,000€
3-bed 86.47m² = 225,000€

Car parking spaces are available to purchase at only 2,700€ each and are located all around the outside edge of the buildings. Individual, lockable (remote-control access, as for the front access gates) underground garages are available from 13,500€ to 17,500€ depending on their size.

The apartments are delivered with the bathroom complete (in the neutral colours shown) but with no kitchen units - but with electric points, hot and cold water and drainage. You can add the kitchen yourself after purchase or, if you would like a kitchen added before delivery and the kitchen that has been added into the showhome interests you, then the developers can arrange for you to see a brochure and pick the kitchen that you like. As a guide, the photos left show a kitchen worth approximately 11,000€.

All kitchens have a large door-entry pantry next to them (see lot plan examples) for storage and housing the hot water tank (150 to 300l depending on apartment size).

The apartments are delivered with matt white walls, but, for a small supplement, you also have the opportunity to have your walls painted in a choice of colours and/or using one of the up-to-date paint effects available as show in the show home (and I'm not talking Artex or sponging here! More like the 'bang on trend' smooth coloured concrete effects that you may have already seen - it's quite gorgeous actually).

If you would like to visit the show home, do not hesitate to contact me and we'll set up a tour at your convenience.

There are plenty of power points throughout the apartments, plus one on the terrace (as well as a tap). All terraces are of a decent size - after all, the whole point of having a terrace in the South of France is to be able to eat out on it, sunbathe etc! Privacy is assured with partitions between touching terraces.

Each apartment has a reversible air-conditioning unit on the wall in the living room and electric wall heaters in the bedrooms. The 2- and 3-bed apartments have a heated towel rail in the bathroom and the 1-beds have an energy efficient wall-mounted blower-heater.

Every apartment has TV ariel sockets to receive not just terrestrial TV but the French digital channels offered by CANAL SAT too.

The monthly management fees (as payable in any property with communal areas) are very reasonable too (all prices approx):
1-bed 60€/month
2-bed 90€/month
3-bed 120€/month

Taxe foncière (approx):
1-bed 900€/yr
2-bed 110€/yr
3-bed 1300€/yr

We only have 18 apartments left in this third phase now - nine in Building D and nine in E, so email me quickly and I'll send you a full availability list, plus lot plans and lots more photos (I took rather a few when I visited as - and I know this sounds obsequious but it's true - I was so enchanted!).

If you have any questions at all please feel free to email or call me.


Short Description: Spacious apartments in a private, serviced and secure residence with heated pool and landscaped gardens. Parking space free, garages available to purchase. Wonderful views. Located in an upwardly mobile area on the North-West edge of Béziers.



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Listed by: Nicole Hammond
Phone: +33 (0)4 67 26 90 42
Mobile: +33 (0)6 32 07 84 13
Info: English Bilingual Property Hunter

I live in a small village in the south of France (in the Herault, Languedoc Roussillon), between Beziers and Pezenas for those of you who know the region.

SIRET NO: 453 211 153 00011

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