Apartment for sale in Alsace, Lorraine & Vosges, France

Situated in Alsace, in the heart of Europe, Mulhouse is a strategically positioned city with over 230 000 inhabitants. Situated just 35 kilometres from Switzerland, Mulhouse is an economically dynamic city and at the same time, rich in culture. Mulhouse and the South Alsace benefit from an economy rich in diversity of industries (textile, chemistry, automobile, mechanical, electricity, plastics?)10 of the 45 most important business groups in Europe have a presence in Alsace including Peugeot, Clemessy and Euroairport. Pfastatt is located a couple of miles east of the centre of Mulhouse and is seen as more of an extention to the city than a separate entity. It provides a more village feel to this thriving, bustling city and is home to many of the nursery schools, schools, sports associations, parks and local businesses. It is seen as a very desireable, residential area to live in and many people commute every day in to the centre of Mulhouse from this pleasant location. The development finds itself in the centre of Pfastaff and is set in extensive gorunds which are covered in all manner of plants, trees and shrubs, making this a very green looking development of apartments. In total there are 39 apartments ranging from 2 to 4 bedrooms set over 2 magnificent buildings. The design is grand yet softened by the gentle colurs and large balconies that look over the grounds. Features include: Lifts from the underground parking to all floors Electric gates and interphone 5 lock doors Individual gas central heating Fitted bathrooms Mixer taps Tiled floors in the bathroom, kitchen and toilets Built in cupboards Mulhouse is also the 2nd town in France after Paris for banking and attracts students from around the world to its engineering school and universities. The region of Alsace is also currently part of an exciting project to link it by TGV (France?s fast train service) with Paris and the rest of France. Currently the only way to get to Alsace by rail is with a normal train which are slow. The first phase of the TGV East project will link, from 2007, the main Alsacienne towns to Paris in less than 3 hours with 24 trains a day (when the project is completed Strasbourg will be less than 1 hour 50 minutes from Paris). A further 9 other destinations are planned including Lille, Nantes and Bordeaux. Eventually, there is a project to extend the TGV line into Germany with the German Rail Network ICE and also into Switzerland.