Renovated apartment with a side sea view in Het Zoute Duindistelstraat 7, 8300 Knokke-Heist

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Renovated apartment for sale in Het Zoute with 3 bedrooms, a side sea view and a private cellar.

Highlights

Renovated apartment in Residentie Drakkar
Duindistelstraat, a few steps from the beach
Close to the Kustlaan
Side sea view
3 bedrooms, two of them full-sized
Sleeping capacity for 6
Bright living space with open kitchen
Bathroom with double washbasin and shower
Private cellar in the building
Ready to occupy, suited to a second residence or investment

Het Zoute is usually judged on its distance from the sea, and on little else. In the Duindistelstraat, in Residentie Drakkar, this renovated apartment stands a few steps from the beach. The Kustlaan is around the corner, with the shops and restaurants that give the neighbourhood its character. Anyone staying here leaves the car where it is: the beach, the baker and the terrace all fall within the same walk. The Kustlaan also carries the year: its shops and restaurants stay open outside the season, which makes Het Zoute more than a summer address.

The sea view is a side view. That is not a shortcoming, but it is a fact worth stating in advance. There is no frontal panorama over the North Sea; there is the light that comes off the water and carries the living room through the day. For most buyers in this segment, the distance to the water counts for more than the width of the view, and on that measure the apartment sits well.

The layout is simply conceived, and that is its strength. The entrance hall, with guest toilet, gives directly onto the living space. There, the sitting area, the dining area and the open kitchen form one continuous whole, without partitions that fragment the surface or corridors that contribute nothing. The room is bright and legible, and lends itself to a family as readily as to a couple. The guest toilet by the entrance keeps visitors out of the night hall, a detail one notices only in its absence.

Two full bedrooms each accommodate a double bed. The third room is smaller and has been fitted with two single beds; it works as a guest room or a child's room, depending on the moment. The distinction is worth making plainly: this is a three-bedroom apartment, two of them full-sized. Anyone who needs a third full bedroom knows so in advance. Anyone counting in beds arrives at six, which for a second residence and for letting is usually the measure that matters.

The bathroom lies off the night hall and has a double washbasin and a shower. A private cellar in the building belongs to the apartment. That sounds unremarkable until one lives by the sea. Bicycles, beach equipment, suitcases and the accumulated gear of a second residence each want a place, and here that place does not have to be found in the living room.

The renovation has been carried out with care and the apartment is ready to occupy. No works are waiting, which for anyone holding the property as a second residence or an investment is the difference between a purchase and a project. Residentie Drakkar itself is discreet and well maintained, in a street that stays clear of the traffic along the seafront. In July and August that is no small matter: the difference between a street on the dyke and a street behind it is felt only then.

With three bedrooms, a bathroom, a guest toilet, a private cellar and a side sea view, a few steps from the beach and the Kustlaan, this is an apartment to be judged on use rather than on grandeur. For a second residence by the sea, or for anyone investing in Het Zoute in a property that lets easily, that is usually the right measure.

Immo Brown
Kustlaan 271
8300 Knokke-Zoute
T +32 (0)50 620 820
info@immobrownknokke.be