House to rent - Gouvy

The current rental selection in Gouvy includes 1 house, listed at €1,050 per month. Houses account for 95.8% of dwellings in the municipality; apartment buildings make up 4.2%. Homes average 6.6 rooms, above the national average of 6, and buildings have an average construction year of 1936. The building types are 69.6% detached houses, farms or castles, 18.3% semi-detached houses, 4% buildings and blocks of flats, 3.2% other types, 3.1% terraced houses and 1.8% commercial houses. Gouvy covers 165.4 km² and has 5,286 inhabitants. The average age is about 39, and 50.4% of residents are men. Home ownership is 77%, average net income per person is €15,771 a year, and households own about 1.3 cars. Residents are 95.1% Belgian, 1.3% French, 0.9% Dutch, 0.7% Luxembourgish, 0.2% Portuguese, 0.2% Romanian, 0.2% German and 1.5% other nationalities.

The N68, N638, N812, N823 and N827 run through Gouvy. From the centre, the A26/E25 takes 14 minutes to reach by car, and the A27/E42 is also 14 minutes away. Bus connections include TEC line 142 from Esneux via Trois-Ponts to Gouvy, line 163c from Bastogne via Houffalize, line 163d from Gouvy via Tavigny to Bastogne, line 18/3 between Houffalize and Vielsalm, and line 89 between Namur and Naninne. There are 14 bus lines in total. Stations serving the area include Gouvy, Gouvy-Frontiere, Troisvierges, Vielsalm and Clervaux.

Families have access to 9 nurseries, 6 nursery schools and 6 primary schools, including Ecole Fondamentale Communale De Gouvy. There is no secondary school in the municipality. The shops listed in town are 1 Trafic and 1 SPAR. Gouvy’s business activity includes 84 firms in mixed farming, 18 in hairdressing and other beauty treatments, 17 in landscape services and 15 in logging; another 11 companies install joinery, and 9 work in other specialised construction activities.

There are no shared bicycles or shared cars in Gouvy, and no electric-vehicle charging station is known in the municipality. Liège Airport is a 60-minute drive away; the public-transport journey takes 160 minutes. The current house-rental listing is €1,050 per month, and the municipality’s housing stock is predominantly made up of houses.