Brand new 3-bedroom bungalow with integrated garage on the Emerald Coast — Saint-Cast-le-Guildo, Côtes-d'Armor

This is something special — a brand new, energy-efficient three-bedroom bungalow with integrated garage in one of the most beautiful and best-loved seaside resorts on the Emerald Coast of northern Brittany. Long sandy beaches, a deep-water marina, a clifftop golf course and the turquoise waters of the Côte d'Émeraude, all on your doorstep, and a brand new home for an all-inclusive price of €212,000. Coastal homes at this standard, at this price, are genuinely rare.

This beautifully designed single-storey home offers a bright, open-plan living, dining and kitchen area filled with natural light and opening onto the garden. Three comfortable bedrooms, a modern bathroom, a separate WC and a utility room complete the home, along with an integrated garage as standard. The layout can be adapted to your wishes, and there is the option of a second bathroom, ideal for a holiday home welcoming family and guests.

The plot

At 240 m² this is a compact plot, and deliberately so. Building land inside a resort town on the Emerald Coast is scarce and priced accordingly. A plot several times the size, a few kilometres inland, would cost considerably less — what you are buying here is the address.

In practice that suits the way most people use a coastal home. The garden is a manageable one rather than a commitment, which matters if the house stands empty for part of the year, and the beaches, the coast path and the marina do the work a large garden would be doing somewhere else. For a holiday home, a lock-up-and-leave, or a property you intend to let, the trade is usually the right way round.

About Saint-Cast-le-Guildo

Saint-Cast-le-Guildo sits on a peninsula on the Côte d'Émeraude, its turquoise waters and fine sandy beaches drawing visitors from across France and Britain throughout the summer. The town has two main beaches: the Grande Plage, a sweeping two-kilometre stretch of fine sand lined with elegant early twentieth-century villas and a seafront promenade, and the beautiful, sheltered Plage de Pen Guen. Hidden coves offer more secluded escapes along the GR34 coastal path, which threads for kilometres around the peninsula with constantly changing sea views.

The Port d'Armor marina offers 750 pontoon berths accessible at all states of the tide, with boat trips to Cap Fréhel, Dinard and Saint-Malo through the season. On the water there is sailing, windsurfing, kayaking, paddleboarding and diving. On land there is an eighteen-hole clifftop golf course at Pen Guen with views over the sea, tennis, horse riding, and a lively programme of summer festivals.

Just 8 km away lies Cap Fréhel, one of the great headlands of northern France, its pink granite cliffs dropping to the sea beside the medieval Fort de la Latte. Saint-Malo, the walled corsair city and the hub for ferry crossings direct to Portsmouth and Poole, is just 18 km to the east. Dinard, the elegant belle époque resort, is under 15 km away, and Dinan, a perfectly preserved medieval walled city overlooking the Rance valley, is around 30 km to the south.