Barge

Go overboard for barge life with Espaces Atypiques

Perhaps life on dry land just isn’t enough for you. Perhaps you’d like your life to have a little more movement and a little less ordinary routine. So how about loading your personal cargo onboard a barge?

A home like no other

When we talk about liveaboard barges or houseboats, we’re usually referring to vessels that comply with the Freycinet gauge of canal boats. These flat-bottomed barges are limited to a maximum length of 38.50 metres and a maximum beam (width) of 5.05 metres. These measurements are precise for a very good reason: to ensure that they can pass through canal locks.

Below decks, the available floor area can extend to 180 or even 200 m², depending on the barge concerned. But there are smaller water craft as well, including Dutch klippers, tjalks and Luxe motors. The maximum floor area of a Luxe motor may be 100 m2, but it has the great advantage of being not only accommodation, but also a form of transport!
Estimates from Voies Navigables de France and the Port of Paris suggest there are around 1,500 houseboats in Paris and its neighbouring departments alone.

Life on a liveaboard barge

Cruise quietly on the Seine, through the Canal de la Garonne or to Neuville sur Saône near Lyon. Living on a boat means regaining control over movement and tranquillity; it also means soaking up the sun when the weather allows, and freeing yourself from noisy neighbours. It brings you closer to nature without saying goodbye to the city. You leave behind the paper-thin walls of old buildings, unreliable lifts and having to drag your shopping up flights of stairs. Living on the river and enjoying a nomadic lifestyle is an increasing trend that is reshuffling the cards of the property game. There’s no doubt that buying a liveaboard is much cheaper per square metre than buying an apartment or a house.

The vast majority of people opting for this type of home are senior executives and professionals in their 40s and 50s who would rather swap shared property management taxes for river taxes to live a non-standard lifestyle.

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Agency Lorraine
METZ 57000 135 SQM 320 000 €
Agency Val-de-Marne
JOINVILLE LE PONT 94340 30 SQM 198 000 €
Agency Lyon
Lyon 69002 195 SQM 549 000 €
Agency Aix – Marseille – Arles
ARLES 13200 200 SQM 230 000 €
Agency Lyon
Agency Paris – Rive gauche
Agency Paris – Rive droite
PARIS 75012 30 SQM 197 000 €
Agency Avignon
AVIGNON 84000 140 SQM 385 000 €
Agency Seine-et-Marne
SEINE PORT 77240 85 SQM 250 000 €
Agency Nîmes
BEAUCAIRE 30300 125 SQM 310 000 €
Agency Paris – Rive droite
PARIS 75019 30 SQM 165 000 €
Agency Paris – Rive droite
PARIS 75019 190 SQM 490 000 €
Agency Lyon
SAINT GERMAIN AU MONT D OR 69650 210 SQM 450 000 €
Agency Lille
DOUAI 59500 200 SQM 330 000 €
Agency Toulouse
TOULOUSE 31200 135 SQM 499 000 €
Under offer
Agency Paris – Rive droite
PARIS 75019 155 SQM 315 000 €
Agency Hauts-de-Seine
BOULOGNE BILLANCOURT 92100 150 SQM 895 000 €
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