3-Bed Detached Villa on 5,300m² Plot – Second Home in Prestigious Brasschaat



Max Hermanlei 45, 2930 Brasschaat, Belgium, Brasschaat (Belgium)
3 Bedrooms · 1 Bathrooms · 247m² Floor area
€849,000
Villa
No parking
3 Bedrooms
1 Bathrooms
247m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
Stand at the kitchen window on a Saturday morning and the garden just keeps going. Past the veranda, past the old trees, all the way to the stone outbuilding at the far end of the plot — 5,300 square meters of private green space in one of Belgium's most sought-after residential addresses. That's not something you find at this price point in Brasschaat. Not anymore.
Max Hermanlei is one of those streets where the houses sit well back from the road, where you can hear birdsong more clearly than traffic, and where the neighbors tend to stay for decades. Number 45 is a detached villa built in 1958 — solid, characterful, with a stately entrance hall and a sweeping staircase that tells you immediately this was a house built with intention. The bones are genuinely good. The proportions are generous in a way that newer builds rarely manage. And with 247 square meters of living space spread across a sensible layout, there's real room to breathe.
The ground floor opens into a wide entrance hall with that original staircase as its centerpiece. From there, the living and dining room catches the eye — large windows pulling in light from the garden, the kind of space that works equally well for a quiet evening with a glass of Westmalle on the couch as it does for hosting ten people around a long table. Next to the living area, the kitchen connects directly to a covered veranda. Step outside and you're already in the garden, coffee in hand, listening to absolutely nothing in particular. It's a very specific kind of quiet that comes with a plot this size, and it takes about thirty seconds to understand why people pay a premium for it.
One of the more unusual aspects of the ground floor is the large room with its own separate entrance — currently configured as an office or practice space. For a GP, a physiotherapist, a lawyer, or any professional who wants to separate work from home life without actually leaving the building, this is a rare find. It could equally become a music room, a guest suite with independent access, or a studio. The garage with internal access, the separate ground-floor WC, and a cellar accessible from the hallway round out the practical side of things.
Upstairs, three full-sized bedrooms sit off a generous landing. Two have walk-in storage or dressing areas already built in — a detail that speaks to how the house was actually lived in, not just photographed. The bathroom has a bathtub and toilet. One bathroom for three bedrooms is the obvious renovation priority, and most buyers will want to add a second. The good news is that the layout upstairs gives you options.
The garden is, frankly, the main event. Newly fenced for privacy and security, it's large enough that a family with young children could lose an entire afternoon out there. At the rear, a substantial stone outbuilding with three separate rooms is the kind of discovery that makes architects excited — workshop, studio, pool house, additional accommodation, subject to the usual planning checks with the municipality. The driveway handles multiple cars easily, and the internal garage adds another.
Now, about Brasschaat itself. This is not a suburb that apologizes for itself. It consistently ranks among the wealthiest and most livable municipalities in Flanders, with the kind of infrastructure — schools like the Gemeentelijk Instituut voor Technisch Onderwijs, the wide cycling paths through the Gemeentebos forest, the Saturday market on the Bredabaan — that attracts families who could live anywhere and choose to stay. The forest park, De Mik, is a five-minute bike ride from Max Hermanlei and offers proper trail walking through pine and oak, not just a strip of green beside a road.
The Bredabaan is Brasschaat's main artery — restaurants, a good butcher, the Saturday market, pharmacies, everything within easy reach. Antwerp city center is roughly 12 kilometers south, a straight shot on the E19 or a quick hop on the bus. Antwerp Centraal station, one of Europe's great railway stations and a genuine architectural event in its own right, connects onward to Brussels in under an hour. Brussels Airport is about 50 kilometers, making this a realistic option for international buyers or expats working across borders.
For those looking at this as a vacation home or second residence in Belgium, the Brasschaat market has historically held its value well. Properties on plots of this scale in this neighborhood rarely come to market, and when they do, they tend not to linger. The renovation potential here is also a real asset for buyers thinking about long-term return — transform it thoughtfully and the uplift on a property like this, in a street like this, is considerable. Belgium's property tax regime (the system of "onroerende voorheffing" and relatively straightforward ownership rules for EU and non-EU buyers alike) is worth discussing with a local notaris early in the process, but it presents no unusual obstacles for international purchasers.
The villa is in good condition — not a building site, not a blank slate emergency — but ready for a buyer who wants to put their own mark on it. New kitchen, second bathroom, updated finishes throughout. The structure, the plot, the location: those are already in place.
Key features at a glance:
- Detached villa, 247m² of living space on a 5,300m² private plot
- 3 bedrooms, 2 with built-in walk-in storage
- Large living and dining room with garden views
- Separate office or practice room with independent exterior entrance
- Covered veranda with direct garden access from the kitchen
- Stone outbuilding at rear with 3 separate rooms (workshop, studio, or conversion potential)
- Internal garage plus extensive driveway parking for multiple vehicles
- Cellar accessible from entrance hall
- Newly fenced garden offering full privacy
- 1958 construction with solid bones and good original proportions
- 12km from Antwerp city center, 50km from Brussels Airport
- Walking/cycling distance to Gemeentebos forest and De Mik park
- Good condition — renovation-ready, not a structural project
- Strong long-term investment profile in one of Flanders' most desirable municipalities
- Straightforward ownership process for international and non-Belgian buyers
A property with a garden this size, on a street this quiet, this close to Antwerp — it doesn't come along often. If you've been waiting for the right canvas in the right postcode, this is worth getting on a plane for.
Reach out through Homestra today to arrange a private viewing or to request the full technical documentation. Our team is on hand to guide international buyers through every step of the process, from first visit to final signature at the notary.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 3
- Size
- 247m²
- Price per m²
- €3,437
- Garden size
- 5300m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- No
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 1
- Has swimming pool
- No
- Property type
- Villa
- Energy label
Unknown
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