On a clear morning in Baho, with the Canigou still dusted white above the plain and the air already warming before nine o'clock, you understand exactly why people move to Roussillon and never quite manage to leave. The swifts cut low over the pool. The scent of rosemary drifts up from the garden beds. Inside, the light pours through the wide south-facing windows and lands in long rectangles across a living room that's genuinely made for living in.
This four-bedroom detached villa sits in one of the most quietly desirable residential pockets just outside Perpignan — Baho, a village that feels a world apart from the city yet sits only fifteen minutes from the centre by car. Four kilometres from the TGV station at Perpignan, nine from the airport, seventeen from the beaches of Canet-en-Roussillon. The geography here is almost unfairly good: mountains to the west, sea to the east, Spain thirty minutes south, and the medieval city of Perpignan spread across the plain below.
Built in 1994 on a plot of 1,500 square metres, the villa covers around 166 square metres of interior space across two levels. The current owners have spent years quietly improving the outdoor areas — the terraces around the pool have been extended and refinished, the tarmac driveway gives the whole approach a clean, well-kept feel — and it shows. This is a house in good condition that someone has looked after properly, not one that's been left to coast.
The ground floor revolves around a 50-square-metre living and dining space — genuinely generous by any standard — anchored by a fireplace on one wall and wide openings on the other that fold the garden and pool into the room almost completely. On a warm October evening, with the terrace lights on and th ... click here to read more
