5-Bed Detached House with Koi Garden & Solar Panels – Vacation Home in Maaseik, Belgium



Meidoornweg 24, 3680 Maaseik, Belgium, Maaseik (Belgium)
5 Bedrooms · 2 Bathrooms · 195m² Floor area
€499,000
House
No parking
5 Bedrooms
2 Bathrooms
195m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
Saturday morning in Maaseik has a particular kind of quiet. Not the empty kind — the earned kind. You open the kitchen's wide windows and the garden fills the room: damp grass, the soft sound of water moving through the koi pond, maybe a wood pigeon somewhere in the hawthorn hedge. By the time the coffee's done, you're already outside on the shaded terrace, and the rest of the day feels genuinely open in a way that city life rarely allows.
That's the rhythm this house on Meidoornweg 24 makes possible.
Built in 1977, it's been thoroughly reworked into something that performs well by every modern measure — energy label B, solar panels, heat pump boiler, gas condensing system, PVC double glazing throughout — while keeping the generous proportions that newer builds tend to sacrifice for efficiency. At 195 square metres of living space on a 1,129-square-metre fully enclosed plot, there's real room here. Room for five bedrooms, two bathrooms, a finished basement with integrated double garage, and a garden designed as seriously as the interiors.
About that garden. It's the kind of outdoor space that changes how you use a house. Multiple zones, each with its own logic: a sun terrace for the late afternoons, a gazebo for when the Belgian sky decides it has other plans, a garden room that works year-round, and a koi pond that has a genuinely calming effect you'll stop apologising for finding meditative. The whole thing is enclosed, gated, and private — which matters when you're using this as a vacation home and arriving to find everything exactly as you left it.
The ground floor living room catches the southern light through large windows and anchors around an electric fireplace set into a custom TV wall — understated, functional, the kind of detail that makes winter weekends feel deliberately cosy rather than accidentally cold. The open kitchen looks directly onto the garden, which means whoever's cooking isn't isolated from the action. One ground-floor room works naturally as a study or home office, with a window to the street that gives you just enough awareness of the neighbourhood without pulling you out of your own space.
Upstairs: three full-size bedrooms and a second bathroom, all well-insulated and proportioned for actual use rather than floor-plan optimism. The basement is finished, tiled, and fitted with built-in storage — useful as hobby space, a fitness room, or the kind of overflow storage that makes shared vacation ownership genuinely practical. The garage fits two cars, has an automatic door, and opens onto a private gated driveway with additional outdoor parking.
Maaseik itself tends to surprise people who arrive expecting a quiet Flemish backwater and leave having bookmarked restaurants for the next visit. The historic centre — with its octagonal market square, the Maaseik museum housing Flemish primitive panel paintings, and the old town walls — is within easy reach of Meidoornweg, close enough to walk or cycle. The Maas river runs alongside the town, and the cycling routes along its banks connect you to both the Dutch border and the wider Limburg province, one of Belgium's most genuinely pleasant regions for outdoor life. On summer Sundays, those river paths fill with cyclists, and the terraces along the Aldeneikstraat do brisk trade in Liège-style waffles and cold Jupiler.
The Hoge Kempen National Park, Belgium's only national park, sits roughly 20 kilometres west — heathland, pine forest, and marked walking trails that work in every season. Come autumn, the colour along those paths is worth planning around. In winter, the park takes on a stillness that pairs well with the kind of long weekend this house is built for.
For international buyers, Maaseik sits in a part of Belgium that remains undervalued relative to Brussels or the Flemish coast, yet it's extremely well-connected. Eindhoven Airport is under an hour away; Brussels Airport is roughly 90 minutes via the E314. The tri-border area — Belgium, Netherlands, Germany — means Aachen, Maastricht, and Hasselt are all reasonable day trips. Maastricht in particular, just 35 kilometres north across the Dutch border, adds a layer of cultural programming — Tefaf in March, the Vrijthof concerts in summer — that elevates any extended stay in the region.
From a purchase standpoint, the property is move-in ready. Current Belgian property ownership structures are accessible for EU and non-EU buyers alike, and a Belgian notaire handles all conveyancing. The house carries a valid asbestos-safe certificate through November 2025, AREI electrical compliance, and sits in a residential planning zone with all permits in order and no pre-emption rights attached. Running costs are kept low by the solar panels and heat pump system — relevant both for personal use and for anyone considering a managed rental arrangement when not in residence.
As a second home or vacation property, it functions well precisely because it requires so little. The garden looks after itself at a basic level, the systems are modern enough to be reliable, and the basement and garage mean there's storage for everything from bikes to kayaks without compromising the living spaces.
Key features at a glance:
- 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms across 195 sqm of living space
- 1,129 sqm fully enclosed, gated private plot
- Multi-zone garden with koi pond, gazebo, sun terrace, shaded terrace, and garden room
- Comprehensive 2023-era renovation, energy label B
- Solar panels and heat pump boiler for hot water
- Gas condensing central heating, air conditioning throughout
- PVC double glazing, modern insulation
- Finished tiled basement with built-in storage
- Integrated double garage (40 sqm) with automatic door and private driveway
- Ground-floor bedroom/study with street aspect
- Open-plan kitchen overlooking garden
- Electric fireplace in main living room
- AREI compliant, asbestos-safe certificate in place
- Walking distance to Maaseik historic centre and cycling routes along the Maas
- Under 60 minutes to Eindhoven Airport; 90 minutes to Brussels Airport
A property like this — detached, this much land, this condition, this location — at €499,000 in Belgian Limburg represents honest value by any European vacation home benchmark. Comparable properties along the Dutch Limburg border or in the Eifel region of Germany typically ask 20 to 30 percent more for equivalent space and finish.
If this house has caught your attention, trust that instinct. Properties on quiet residential streets in Maaseik with gardens of this scale don't linger on the market. Reach out through Homestra to arrange a viewing or to request the full technical documentation — our team can coordinate everything remotely for international buyers before your first visit.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 5
- Size
- 195m²
- Price per m²
- €2,559
- Garden size
- 1129m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- No
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 2
- Has swimming pool
- No
- Property type
- House
- Energy label
Unknown
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