The Álvares Cabral 115 is an historical building located on a street of architectural heritage. With a very central location, this street aroused the interest of several companies that have set up their headquarters here, of tourists that look for guest houses and charming hostels and of those who are looking to return to live in the centre of Porto.
This is a property built in 1906 on a street full of history and renovated in 2017 with the maximum preservation of the architecture and the original elements of the house (ceilings in plaster work, flooring, counters, woods, interior doors and windows, etc.) and, at the same time, expressing concern for comfort, modernization and environmental harmony, through:
- window frames in lacquered wood with double glass of 8 and 5mm and argon atmosphere (Guardian Sun of Saint Gobain);
- thermal insulation of walls with styrofoam and net. Thermal insulation of all roofs with “roofmate” and “onduline” sub-tile;
- totally new instalation of water and electricity;
- central heating installation throughout the house powered by a firewood boiler which also feeds the hot sanitary water in winter;
- installation of a photovoltaic solar energy production system for self consumption;
- inner air conditioning by a forced air geothermal system, “canadian well” type;
- very quiet multifunctional garden in the center of Porto.
Main characteristics of the property:
15 rooms; lot of 225m 2 ; implantation of 125m 2 ; A a B a construction: 506m 2 ; A a B private: 492m 2 ; A a B a dependent: 15m 2 .
Basement: it is a space prepared to be partially transformed into a garage for two medium cars or, like it is common nowadays, you may enjoy it as a large lounge. You may also arrange other rooms for any kind of storage and it has direct access to the patio/garden.
Garden: pleasant outdoor gardened space with about 100m 2 .
Ground floor: three big rooms, one of them is the dining room and the other one is the living room, bathroom, fully furnished and equipped kitchen and direct access to the patio/garden.
1 st floor: four rooms of which one of them is a suite with walking closet, another one is a bedroom with a study/toy room, a complete bathroom and a balcony.
2 nd floor: four rooms of which one of them is a study and another one is an ample
space of support to it, a complete bathroom and two other bedrooms.
Property potentialities:
- Local Accommodation, Guest House or Charming Hotel;
- Transformation in 8 or 9 apartments with immediate profitability in their sale or in long term/tourist renting (in this street, the average sales figures of a new T1 are 4100€ m 2 );
- Company headquarters, Clinic, Offices, Coworking, Student Residential, Coliving.
History, location and proximities:
- Rua de Álvares Cabral, of national public interest and case study!
https://www.publico.pt/2011/03/20/jornal/no-porto-ha-uma-rua-que-e-um-caso-de-estudoalvares-cabral-21574037
https://www.jn.pt/local/noticias/porto/porto/interior/rua-alvares-cabral-porto-classificada-como-patrimonio-2933560.html
- 200 metres from Praça de República;
- 200 metres from Rua de Cedofeita;
- 400 metres from underground Lapa;
- 560 metres from Rotunda da Boavista;
- 700 metres from Trindade and the underground station;
- 900 metres from Praça do Município or the City Hall;
- 1000 metres from D. Luís I Bridge and the waterfont zone;
- 1600 metres from Foz do Douro (mouth of the Douro river);
- 12 km from Porto’s Airport.
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