4-Bed Long Island Villa on 2,060m² Plot in Green Kapellen — 20 Min from Antwerp



Hogeschootlaan 5, 2950 Kapellen, Belgium, Kapellen (Belgium)
4 Bedrooms · 3 Bathrooms · 297m² Floor area
€899,000
Villa
No parking
4 Bedrooms
3 Bathrooms
297m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
On a quiet Sunday morning, you crack the kitchen window above the breakfast nook and the smell of cut grass drifts in from the garden. The pond catches the early light. Beyond the fence line, the tree canopy of the adjacent forest is doing that slow, golden thing it does in late September. The coffee is on. The kids are still upstairs. This — right here — is what 297 square metres of well-built Belgian villa feels like from the inside.
Hogeschootlaan 5 sits in one of Kapellen's most sought-after villa streets, a leafy residential lane where houses are set well back from the road and plots are generous enough that you actually feel the space between you and your neighbours. The address sits in the southwest corner of Kapellen's outer ring, meaning you get the quiet without the isolation. The Kapellen Markt — with its Friday market stalls selling Flemish strawberries and artisan bread — is a short cycle away. The N11 toward Antwerp is less than five minutes by car, and from there the E19 north puts you at the Dutch border in under half an hour.
The villa itself follows the Long Island architectural tradition: wide, low-slung proportions, generous overhangs, and a visual language that leans into horizontal lines and natural materials. It reads quietly confident from the street. The gated driveway opens onto a broad forecourt with parking for several cars — practical when the family descends or when you're hosting neighbours for a summer terrace dinner. The integrated double garage, with its automatic door, handles the everyday.
Inside, the entrance hall sets the tone immediately. High ceilings. A lot of light. The kind of proportions that make people stop and say something before they've even looked around properly. To the right, a ground-floor guest suite with its own bathroom — bathtub, separate shower, toilet — works just as well as a home office, a consulting room for a professional who sees clients from home, or a private apartment for a parent who needs proximity without the stairs. Kapellen is increasingly popular with dual-income families doing exactly this kind of mixed-use arrangement, and the layout here supports it naturally.
The living area is anchored by Bourgogne stone flooring, the real stuff, with that warm grey-cream variation that gets better the longer it's been down. The space divides itself sensibly into a sitting zone around a wood-burning fireplace, a television corner, and a central dining area that opens directly into the kitchen. The kitchen is country-style in the best possible sense — not rustic pastiche, but genuinely well-equipped with high-specification appliances, deep cabinetry, and a breakfast nook built into a bay window that looks out over the south-facing garden. You eat your morning eggs watching light move across the terrace. It's the kind of detail you don't fully appreciate until you've lived with it for a week.
The double-height central window is the architectural statement of the ground floor. It connects the interior volume to the landscaped garden in a way that makes the outside feel like a fifth room. The gallery above creates a visual bridge between the two floors and fills the heart of the house with borrowed daylight all afternoon.
Upstairs, the parquet landing leads to a master bedroom with adjoining dressing room — properly sized, not the token walk-in that barely fits a rail. The central bathroom serves two additional bedrooms, one of which has its own private bathroom with a full bathtub. The open study area off the landing is genuinely useful: a reading corner, a homework station, a second workspace when both partners are working from home on the same Tuesday.
The garden is fully enclosed and faces southwest, which in the Belgian climate means it catches sun from early afternoon through to evening — important if you want the terrace to actually be usable after work. A pond adds a focal point and draws in birds. The adjacent forest means the view from the back fence is trees, not tiles. Planning permission for a swimming pool is feasible here given the plot size and orientation, which would push the outdoor living offer considerably further.
Kapellen itself rewards slow exploration. The Grote Markt has a handful of good restaurants — Den Artiest does a solid waterzooi, the classic Flemish chicken stew — and the town has a genuinely local feel that hasn't been eroded by commuter-belt anonymity. Antwerp's cultural weight is only 20 kilometres south: the MAS museum on the waterfront, the Fashion Museum, the weekend flea market on Vrijdagmarkt, Opera Ballet Vlaanderen's autumn season. Antwerp Airport handles routes to London City, Geneva, and Manchester, while Brussels Airport, a 45-minute drive, connects to the rest of the world.
For outdoor activity, the Kalmthoutse Heide nature reserve — one of the largest heathland areas in northwest Europe — begins just a few kilometres north of Kapellen. Cycling infrastructure in this part of Antwerp province is excellent: numbered node routes connect Kapellen directly to Brasschaat, Schilde, and the Zandvliet polders without touching a main road.
For international buyers considering Belgium as a second home or holiday property destination, Kapellen sits in a particularly stable corner of the Flemish real estate market. Demand from Antwerp professionals has kept values resilient here through market fluctuations that affected other regions more sharply. Belgium's property acquisition costs are well-documented and consistent — registration fees, notary costs, and the annual property tax (onroerende voorheffing) are predictable. Non-resident EU buyers face no ownership restrictions. The property carries an energy label B at 197 kWh/m², which is meaningfully better than much of the existing villa stock in the region and translates to lower running costs.
The house is in good condition and move-in ready. Security is handled by an installed alarm system. The garden features retractable sunshades with wind protection on the terrace — the kind of thing you notice the first time you're eating outside and the wind picks up, and you're glad someone thought of it.
Key features at a glance:
- 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms across 297m² of living space
- 2,060m² fully enclosed southwest-facing plot
- Long Island architectural style with double-height central window
- Bourgogne stone flooring on the ground floor, parquet upstairs
- Country-style kitchen with bay window breakfast nook
- Ground-floor guest suite suitable as office, consulting room, or care annex
- Wood-burning fireplace in main sitting room
- Integrated double garage with automatic door
- Garden pond with views onto adjacent forest
- Swimming pool installation feasible on current plot
- Retractable sunshades with wind protection on sun terrace
- Alarm system installed
- Energy label B (197 kWh/m²) — above average for regional villa stock
- 20 minutes by car to central Antwerp, direct access to E19 toward Netherlands
- Cycle access to Kalmthoutse Heide nature reserve
Properties with this combination of plot size, established landscaping, and southwest orientation on Hogeschootlaan don't come available often. The street has genuine scarcity on its side.
To arrange a private viewing or request the full technical documentation, get in touch with the team at Homestra today. This is the kind of house that makes more sense in person than in photographs — and the photographs already make a strong case.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 4
- Size
- 297m²
- Price per m²
- €3,027
- Garden size
- 2060m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- No
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 3
- Has swimming pool
- No
- Property type
- Villa
- Energy label
Unknown
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