3-Bed Detached House with Large Garden & Garage – Vacation Home in Goch, Germany



Elisabeth-Becker-Strasse 1, 47574 Goch-Kessel, Germany, Goch (Germany)
3 Bedrooms · 1 Bathrooms · 138m² Floor area
€474,500
House
No parking
3 Bedrooms
1 Bathrooms
138m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
Saturday morning, just after nine. You slide open the French doors off the living room and the garden fills with birdsong and the faint smell of freshly cut grass drifting over from the neighbour's plot. The water feature catches the light. Coffee cup in hand, you pick a sun chair, and absolutely nothing demands your attention. This is Goch-Kessel on a weekend, and it gets under your skin fast.
Built in 2002 and kept in genuinely good condition throughout, this detached house on Elisabeth-Becker-Strasse sits in one of the Lower Rhine region's quieter residential pockets — a village edge setting where the streets are wide, the trees are tall, and the pace drops the moment you turn off the main road. At 138 square metres of living space across two floors plus a fully insulated attic, the property has real substance. Three proper bedrooms, a well-equipped family bathroom with underfloor heating, a bright living room with generous dimensions, a practical kitchen, a utility room, a stone-built garage, a carport, two driveways. It's not trying to be something it's not. It's a house that works — and works well.
The ground floor layout was thought through carefully. Walk in through the entrance hall and you immediately notice the cloakroom, the under-stair storage, and the guest toilet with urinal — the kind of detail that only matters until the moment you need it, at which point you're very glad it's there. The living room is the heart of it all: large windows on multiple sides, French doors leading directly into the garden, and enough floor space to seat a real gathering around a proper dining table without anyone feeling squeezed. In winter, with the underfloor heating running quietly beneath your feet, this room glows. In summer, those garden doors stay open from morning until dusk.
The kitchen is tidy and practical rather than showy, with good workspace and solid storage, and it connects directly to the utility room — so washing machines, drying racks, and the general business of daily life stay tucked away from the main living area. Small thing. Makes a big difference.
Upstairs, the three bedrooms are each a comfortable size — nothing cramped, nothing awkwardly proportioned. The largest works as a genuine master bedroom; the others adapt easily to whatever you need, a guest room, a home office, a child's room. The bathroom has it all: shower, bathtub, toilet, washbasin, and that same underfloor heating as the ground floor. The attic above, post-construction insulated, adds another layer of storage capacity that international buyers especially tend to appreciate — somewhere to keep the equipment and belongings that travel with a second home.
Then there's the garden. It genuinely is the best part of this property. It wraps around the house, giving you multiple orientations across the day — morning sun, afternoon shade, evening light catching the water feature that the homeowners' association maintains on your behalf. There's a garden house for tools, bikes, or hobby projects, and multiple seating areas so different people can claim their own spot. For a family, that matters. For a couple wanting somewhere genuinely restorative to come on weekends or longer stays, it delivers.
Practical systems throughout: roller shutters on all sides of the house, double-glazed plastic window frames, a groundwater pump with a heat exchanger, and an Energy Label B rating — which, in real terms, means lower heating bills and a home that stays comfortable across all four seasons without drama.
Goch-Kessel itself sits just a few kilometres from the Dutch border near Gennep, which opens up a dual-country lifestyle that's more convenient than most buyers expect. The market towns of Goch and Kleve are both easily reachable for day-to-day shopping, restaurants, and services. Nijmegen — one of the oldest cities in the Netherlands, with a lively centre, good restaurants along the Waalkade waterfront, and a market stretching back to Roman times — is under 30 minutes by car. Düsseldorf is roughly an hour. The cycling infrastructure in this part of the Lower Rhine valley is excellent; dedicated paths run through flat, open farmland toward the Rhine itself, and the routes connecting into the Dutch network via Gennep give you access to some of the best long-distance cycling in Northern Europe.
The region doesn't roar with activity the way coastal spots do, and that's precisely the point. What you get instead is space. Walking trails through the Rhine floodplains, quiet country roads, the annual festivals that mark Goch's calendar through spring and summer, and the kind of unhurried local life — bakeries, weekly markets, neighbourhood pubs — that's genuinely hard to find closer to major cities. In autumn, the tree-lined roads around the village turn copper and gold. In spring, the fields flood with colour. There are four clear seasons here, and each one gives you a different version of the same landscape.
For international buyers, the legal framework for purchasing property in Germany is straightforward and well-established. As a non-EU buyer, you face no restrictions on ownership. Financing is available through German banks, with valuations assessed under the WoFlV standard — the measurements used throughout this listing. The property's Energy Label B rating is also a positive factor in mortgage assessments. For those considering rental income, the proximity to both Düsseldorf and the Dutch border creates genuine demand from medium-term corporate and cross-border tenants, and short-term holiday rental is possible subject to local registration requirements.
Key features at a glance:
- Detached house, built 2002, in good condition, 138 sqm living space
- 3 bedrooms across the first floor, each generously proportioned
- 1 family bathroom with shower, bathtub, toilet, washbasin and underfloor heating
- Bright living room with French doors opening directly to the garden
- Ground floor underfloor heating throughout
- Practical kitchen with adjacent utility room
- Spacious, landscaped garden wrapping around the house with multiple seating areas
- Maintained water feature managed by the homeowners' association
- Garden house for additional storage or hobbies
- Stone-built attached garage plus carport and two private driveways
- Roller shutters and double glazing throughout
- Groundwater pump with heat exchanger
- Energy Label B — lower running costs year-round
- Insulated attic providing substantial storage capacity
- Minutes from the Dutch border near Gennep; under 30 minutes to Nijmegen; ~1 hour to Düsseldorf
Priced at €474,500, this is a second home that asks very little of you in terms of upkeep and gives a lot back in terms of space, quiet, and genuine usability across the seasons. If you've been looking for a holiday property or second home in Germany within easy reach of the Netherlands and the broader North Rhine region, this one is worth seeing in person. Reach out through Homestra today to arrange a private viewing — the garden alone will do the rest.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 3
- Size
- 138m²
- Price per m²
- €3,438
- Garden size
- 444m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- No
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 1
- Has swimming pool
- No
- Property type
- House
- Energy label
Unknown
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