Villa for sale - 4052 Basel

In the popular St. Alban quarter, also known as Gellert in the northern part, this charming turn-of-the-century townhouse is located in one of the most exclusive areas of Basel. The quarter is characterized by the stately, adjoining villas with wonderful city gardens.

Wartenbergstrasse is highly regarded as an elegant family residential area and is known in the city as a quiet and popular little street.

The connection to public transport such as trams and the train station is perfect; all shopping facilities, doctors, banks, etc. are only a few meters from the property and are easily accessible on foot.

The townhouse, built in 1902 by the renowned Basel star architect Gustav Visscher van Gaasbeek (1859-1911), has many typical stylistic elements that continue to perpetuate the unique charm of Art Nouveau and Historicism to this day. All these elements are original and a pleasure for every real estate connoisseur. The attractive property has been very well maintained by the previous owners and offers a high quality of life for a large family with children. Between 2018 and 2019, approx. CHF 1.5 million was invested in the technical maintenance of the property. A budget of CHF 250,000 is already included in the purchase price for additional personal modification requests, as well as the costs for the usual painting work. These can be deducted from the prospective price upon purchase, so that the purchase price of the property is only CHF 5,600,000.

Behind the unique, shapely yet simple facade (Basel understatement) lies a wonderfully well-thought-out spatial concept over three residential floors plus basement and attic. Here you can expect attractive herringbone parquet floors, room heights of up to 3.40 meters with beautiful stucco ceilings, to name just a few.

Via the main entrance, you reach the spacious entrance hall with an open staircase, cloakroom and guest toilet. The heart of the ground floor of this property is the communicating rooms, the large kitchen-living room, the two-part living room and the adjoining veranda (winter garden) with access to the garden area. In addition, another large room (office) and a home office are available on this floor (called Archive on the plan).

A beautifully curved staircase leads to the first floor. Here there are a total of three rooms, a large family bathroom with bathtub, shower, double washbasin and toilet, a small bathroom with shower and toilet, a utility room and a separate toilet. Currently, the two largest rooms with 30 and 19 sqm are used as a second family living area with an adjoining library; these two rooms could also serve as additional bedrooms. The third room serves as the master bedroom, as the family bathroom is also accessible en suite.

The second floor offers a self-contained teenager area with two rooms, a large bathroom with an adjoining walk-in closet. Another room on this floor currently serves as a guest room, which also has its own en-suite bathroom. The 17 sqm sun terrace on this floor is accessible from both the teenager area and the staircase and offers, besides plenty of privacy, a wonderful view of the greenery and the almost seamlessly connected gardens of the neighborhood.

If you need more space, the large attic, which offers plenty of storage space over the entire house area, could also be expanded.

In the equally spacious basement, there are, in addition to the entrance hall with a separate toilet, the boiler room, a large storage cellar, a wine cellar, a bicycle cellar, the laundry room and a large hobby room.

In the outdoor area is the easy-care and beautifully landscaped city garden with old trees, which will completely enthrall you. The large property consists of two plots; the separate building plot currently serves to expand the aforementioned city garden; here there is also the possibility of parking your vehicles behind a gate.

Conclusion of Immoline: The acquisition of such a "Basel jewel" usually only occurs every 30 years. Due to age, the family would like to part with this family home. We would like to explicitly point out the particularly fair price-performance ratio of this Art Nouveau villa.