6-Bed Pastorijwoning | New-Build Second Home in Kortessem, 5 Min from E313



Bornstraat 17a, 3720 Hasselt-Kortessem, Belgium, Kortessem (Belgium)
6 Bedrooms · 2 Bathrooms · 310m² Floor area
€590,000
House
No parking
6 Bedrooms
2 Bathrooms
310m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
Step inside on a quiet Tuesday morning in Vliermaalroot and the first thing you notice is the light. Southwest-facing windows pull the sun deep into the living room from mid-morning until the last gold slips behind the Haspengouw farmland in the evening. Old Beerse brick on the facade, blue stone detailing at the threshold, solid oak underfoot — this is a house built the way Flemish craftsmen used to build them, except the boiler room holds a heat pump and 8 kWp of solar panels are quietly generating more electricity than a family of five will ever use.
This is what makes this 310-square-meter pastorijwoning in Kortessem so compelling as a Belgian second home or vacation property: it carries the visual weight and presence of a classic Flemish manor house while running on near-zero energy, with an E-peil score under 20. That kind of combination is genuinely rare in this price bracket.
The house sits on Bornstraat 17a in the hamlet of Vliermaalroot, which is technically part of the wider Kortessem municipality — but locals will tell you it feels like a village unto itself. Slow. Green. The kind of place where the school is 500 meters away on foot and the pharmacy is the same distance in the other direction. There are no traffic lights. There is, however, a cycling route that loops out through the fruit orchards of Haspengouw — one of Belgium's most productive agricultural regions, famous for its apple and pear blossoms in April, when the whole landscape turns white and the roadside farm stalls start selling freshly pressed juice.
Six bedrooms across three floors gives the property a flexibility that's hard to find in new-build stock. The ground floor sets the tone: a wide entrance hall opens to a versatile room that works as a home office or hobby space, then flows into a bright, open living and dining area with a sitting corner that catches afternoon sun. The kitchen space — currently unfinished and waiting for your own specification — is a proper blank slate. You can bring your own kitchen installer, or work with the developer's suppliers. Either way, you're getting exactly what you want rather than inheriting someone else's choices in cabinetry and worktop stone. A utility and laundry room sits adjacent, and the integrated garage (big enough for two cars) opens directly into the garden.
Upstairs, the first floor holds four bedrooms, including a master suite with a walk-in dressing room. Two bathrooms serve this level — one with bathtub and shower, one with shower only. Then the second floor delivers two further fully finished rooms, the kind that are hard to categorize because they can genuinely be anything: teenage bedrooms, a creative studio, a guest suite with its own sitting space, or a combination of the above. The entire property is fully basemented, adding storage and utility capacity that most comparable new-builds simply don't offer.
For international buyers considering a holiday property in Belgium, Kortessem sits in a surprisingly underrated region. Hasselt — the provincial capital of Limburg and one of Belgium's most liveable cities — is less than 10 minutes by car. Hasselt is worth knowing well. Its Jenevermuseum chronicles the local gin-distilling tradition that the city has exported across Flanders for centuries. The Thursday market on the Grote Markt is a genuine local institution, not a tourist construct. Restaurants like Aan Tafel bij Luc have built serious reputations serving regional produce — think Limburg asparagus in May, white endive gratins in winter, and stoofvlees that simmers low and slow in local Cristal Alken beer.
Beyond Hasselt, the broader Limburg province is Belgium's quiet open-air recreation capital. The LF Kempenroute cycling network covers hundreds of kilometers of dedicated paths through heathland and forest. The Hoge Kempen National Park — Belgium's only national park — is 20 minutes away, with trail routes through pine and heather that are genuinely wild by Belgian standards. In winter, when Maastricht is 30 minutes up the road and its famous Christmas market fills the Vrijthof square, the location feels even more central to the best of what the Low Countries offer.
Accessibility is one of the property's practical strengths. The E313 motorway is five minutes away, putting Antwerp within 50 minutes and Liège in 30. Brussels Airport is roughly an hour's drive. For European buyers flying in for extended stays, that kind of connectivity matters. For families using this as a primary second home, the proximity to good schools — including Hasselt's international options — makes transitions between countries manageable rather than stressful.
The energy setup here is worth pausing on. Underfloor heating throughout, a heat pump, mechanical ventilation type D, a home battery paired with the solar array, provisions for EV charging — this is infrastructure usually associated with passive house projects rather than manor-style new-builds. Running costs will be low. As a new-build purchase, Belgian law currently provides a full exemption from property tax for the first five years, which is a meaningful financial advantage. The purchase is subject to 21% VAT rather than registration duties, which is standard for new constructions — worth factoring into total acquisition costs if you're comparing this against existing properties in the area.
Key features at a glance:
— 310 m² living space across three floors, fully basemented
— 6 bedrooms including master suite with walk-in dressing room
— 2 bathrooms, plus separate guest WC on ground floor
— Kitchen space ready for personal specification
— Integrated garage for 2 cars, plus additional street parking
— Southwest-facing garden of approximately 445 m² to the side
— E-peil under 20 — among the most energy-efficient ratings available
— 8 kWp solar panels with home battery storage
— Heat pump and underfloor heating throughout
— Mechanical ventilation type D, domotics, EV charging provision
— 5-year property tax exemption as new-build
— 500 m from school and pharmacy, 5 min from E313
— 10 min to Hasselt city centre, 30 min to Liège, 50 min to Antwerp
The garden wraps around the front and side of the house, south-westerly orientation meaning that from late morning through sunset you've got usable outdoor space rather than a yard that only sees sun before breakfast. For a family that wants to actually use a garden — whether that's a table for eight on a Friday evening or a play area that gets proper light — this layout delivers.
This property is a genuine rarity in the Belgian holiday home and second home market: new construction with serious architectural character, in a peaceful Limburg village setting, with the energy credentials and practicality that make it viable as a permanent base or a frequently visited second residence. Properties of this calibre in Kortessem and the wider Haspengouw area move quickly, and new-build stock with this specification is not being replaced at scale.
Get in touch with the team at Homestra to arrange a private viewing or to request the full technical specification and energy documentation. This is the kind of home that makes much more sense standing in it than reading about it on a screen.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 6
- Size
- 310m²
- Price per m²
- €1,903
- Garden size
- 685m²
- 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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