Perpignan (Pyrenees-Orientales) - LE KAELIS |
From 65,568€ |
Type: Studio apartments, some with balconies
Living areas: 17.79 m² - 23.61 m²
Projected delivery date: September 2008
Lease length: 9 years
Yield: 4.45% – 4.54%
Price:
From 65 568 EUR (17.79 m²) to 88 476 EUR (23.61 m²)
Prices include furnishings, exclude VAT
Personal occupancy: none
Nearest airport: Perpignan
The property:
This oval-shaped building will be part of the larger residential complex of ”Mediterranee Grand Arc”, on the banks of La Têt river and an extension to the historic centre of Perpignan.
This business and tourism residence, comprising a total of 100 studio apartments with 360° views over the city rooftops and the Pyrenean mountain range, will be designed in a contemporary style, combining wooden latticework and the pale ochre colours commonly used locally.
Comfortably furnished and fully fitted, the “Kaelis” will offer a wide range of hospitality services geared towards a tourism and business clientele: wifi in every room, satellite television, air conditioning throughout, breakfast, cleaning and laundry service.
The residence will stand at the east end of a vast esplanade with a large fountain surrounded by palm trees in its centre. At the opposite end of this open space, the renowned French architect Jean Nouvel’s ambitious new project, the “Archipel Theatre” will stand in tribute to the city’s new vocation as a European cultural destination and platform for the new transportation networks. Designed to rival with the cutting-edge Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, this new building with its inter-connected “Grenat” - a pebble-shaped garnet-coloured extension - is to be inaugurated on the occasion of the launch in 2009 of the new TGV line linking Perpignan with Barcelona in just 45 minutes.
Within a few minutes walking distance to the lively historic centre and the "Dames de France" shopping mall, this new development is strategically positioned in what will become the new modern quarter of this ancient city.
The location:
From the Palace of the Mallorcan kings, to the Place de la Loge and the Saint Jean Cathedral, Perpignan bears witness to its rich historical past.
A busy city with a population of 120 000 inhabitants (11 000 students) and the third Catalan city after Barcelona and Lleida in Spain, it is an ideal base from which to explore the coast and the mountains as well as the Cathar castles of the back-country.
With the launch of the new TGV line in 2009, the creation of its new international cultural centre and the development of its tourism and business infrastructure, Perpignan is changing into a European centre of commerce and exchange.
Still bathed in an authentic southern charm redolent of a strong Catalan influence and enjoying an inbred sense of “la Fiesta”, the city is as close to the long sandy beaches of the Mediterranean as it is to the Pyrenean ski resorts.
The wide sandy beaches of le Canet and Saint-Cyprien Plage are very popular, and after Argelès Plage, a little further south, give way to a pretty rocky coastline as the Pyrenees tumble into the sea, their steep flanks terraced with vineyards.
Our opinion:
Set to become a landmark, the new "Grenat Archipel” theatre dedicated to the arts will transform the city of Perpignan.
Perpignan is just under 4 hours TGV ride from Lyon, itself just 2 hours from Paris, and the new AGV train lines to be launched in 2014 will reduce travel time by more than a third - the new European territory of tomorrow is unfolding before our eyes…