4-Bed Equestrian Villa with 12 Stables & 20x60m Arena – Vacation Home in Maaseik



Diestersteenweg 25, 3680 Maaseik, Belgium, Maaseik (Belgium)
4 Bedrooms · 2 Bathrooms · 250m² Floor area
€860,000
Villa
No parking
4 Bedrooms
2 Bathrooms
250m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
Six o'clock on a crisp Flemish morning. You walk out through the back door in your boots, coffee still warm in your hand, and the horses are already moving in the paddocks. The mist sits low over the meadows. This is not a weekend retreat you squeeze into. It's a full life — the kind most equestrian families spend years searching for and rarely find in one address.
Diestersteenweg 25 sits on the edge of Maaseik, a town on the Maas river in Belgium's Limburg province that most international buyers haven't discovered yet — which is precisely what makes it interesting. Maaseik is the kind of place where the Friday market on the Markt square still matters, where you can get a proper carbonnade flamande at De Watermolen without a reservation, and where the cycle routes along the river stretch for kilometres without a traffic light in sight. It's quiet in the right way. Not isolated — just unhurried.
The villa itself is a solid, detached property of 250 square metres. Four bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a layout that has been thoughtfully updated without losing the grounded, practical character that suits a working equestrian estate. New joinery was fitted in 2020, a condensing boiler installed in 2022, and the insulation throughout meets current standards. The EPC rating reflects that. You won't need to spend the first two years renovating — you can move straight in and focus on what actually matters.
Step through the entrance hall and the ground floor opens up generously. The living room runs wide, anchored by a gas fireplace that does real work through Belgian winters — and Limburg winters can be grey and damp from November through February, so you'll want it. Off the living area, there's a separate office that functions equally well as a fifth bedroom if your situation calls for it. A dedicated dining space. A kitchen that looks out over the east-facing garden, catching the morning light in a way that makes the first hour of the day genuinely pleasant. Guest toilet on the ground floor, because that detail matters when you're hosting.
Upstairs, three full bedrooms sit alongside two modern bathrooms and a second separate toilet. The attic storage is real storage — not a crawl space. Practical, proportionate, ready.
Outside is where this property stops being simply good and becomes rare.
The rear garden alone covers roughly 1,500 square metres, 50 metres deep, 30 metres wide. The sun rises over it. A maintained terrace runs along the back of the house — stone underfoot, room for a table that seats eight comfortably. But the garden is just the beginning.
The equestrian infrastructure here is the kind that takes years and serious investment to build from scratch. Twelve horse stables, a dedicated washing and grooming area, a lunging circle, multiple paddocks and meadows with room for horses to move freely across the property. Storage for up to 40 tonnes of straw — on-site, meaning no logistical headaches mid-winter. A large detached stone garage handles vehicles and equipment. And then there are the two arenas: an indoor riding arena under a tent structure for year-round work regardless of weather, and a 20x60 metre outdoor arena surfaced for dressage and general flatwork. The storage building adjacent to the stables can be converted into groom accommodation, which significantly expands what's operationally possible here. Whether you're running a professional training yard, breeding, or simply keeping horses at the highest hobbyist level, the infrastructure doesn't ask you to compromise.
This part of Limburg has an equestrian culture running deep through it. The Kempen and Maasland region hosts regular competitions, and the Nationaal Park Hoge Kempen — one of Belgium's only national parks — is within easy reach for trail riding through pine forest and heathland. The landscape here is flat enough for conditioning work and varied enough to stay interesting.
Beyond the horses, Maaseik rewards the curious. The town's historic core is genuinely old — it was founded in the 9th century and the central market square has a coherent medieval architecture that hasn't been overdeveloped. Jan van Eyck, the Flemish painter, was born here alongside his brother Hubert, and the town carries that heritage without making a fuss about it. The Musea Maaseik holds Roman and medieval artefacts alongside the famous Maaseik Gospels, one of the oldest illuminated manuscripts surviving in the Low Countries. A twenty-minute drive puts you in Hasselt, Limburg's capital, with its Jenevermuseum, the annual Jeneverfeesten, and a restaurant scene that punches above its size. Liège is under an hour by car — IKEA, international airport, the covered market at the Carré on a Saturday morning.
For international buyers specifically, Belgium offers a stable, well-regulated property market. Non-EU buyers face no significant restrictions on ownership. The Notaris system handles all conveyancing, and the process is transparent and methodical. Property taxes in Belgium are based on the cadastral income system, and Limburg in particular has seen steady demand with limited supply for properties of this scale and specification. The rental market for quality equestrian properties is thin — meaning there's limited competition if you ever choose to lease, and strong interest when such properties come to the market. Maaseik is also within the catchment area of several international schools in Hasselt and Genk, which matters for families spending extended time here.
Practically: Brussels Airport is 90 minutes by car. Maastricht-Aachen Airport in the Netherlands is 30 minutes. The E314 motorway connects Maaseik to the wider Belgian and Dutch road network efficiently. If you're travelling from London, you can be here in under five hours door to door via Eurostar to Brussels and then by car.
Key features at a glance:
— 4 bedrooms plus flexible office/5th bedroom on ground floor
— 2 modern bathrooms plus 2 separate guest toilets
— 250 square metres of interior living space
— Gas fireplace in main living area
— Fully equipped kitchen overlooking east-facing garden
— New joinery (2020), condensing boiler (2022), strong EPC rating, no renovation obligation
— 12 horse stables with dedicated washing and grooming area
— Lunging circle, multiple paddocks and meadows
— Storage for 40 tonnes of straw
— Indoor riding arena (tent structure) for year-round use
— Outdoor dressage arena, 20x60 metres
— Storage building convertible to groom accommodation
— Large detached stone garage
— 1,500 sqm rear garden, east-facing, plus front and side gardens
— Central Maaseik location, 30 minutes from Maastricht-Aachen Airport
Properties like this one — four bedrooms, professional equestrian infrastructure, move-in condition, and real outdoor space inside a functioning Flemish town — don't come to market often. When they do, they go to buyers who moved quickly. If you've been looking for a vacation home in Belgium that actually accommodates the way you live with horses, or a second home in Europe with the kind of land and facilities that justify the investment, this address deserves a serious look. Get in touch through Homestra to arrange a private viewing at Diestersteenweg 25 before someone else does.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 4
- Size
- 250m²
- Price per m²
- €3,440
- Garden size
- 1500m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- No
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 2
- Has swimming pool
- No
- Property type
- Villa
- Energy label
Unknown
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