Houyet’s housing market is largely made up of houses: 94.2% of buildings are houses, while 5.8% are apartment buildings. Building types include 52.6% open-type houses, farms and castles, 25.1% semi-closed houses, 10.4% closed houses, 5.8% other types of buildings, 5.4% apartment buildings and blocks, and 0.7% commercial houses. Buildings date on average to around 1925, and the average home has about 6.3 rooms. The municipality covers 122.8 km² and has 4,956 inhabitants. The average age is 40; women represent 50.8% of the population. Home ownership stands at 75%, and average net income is €17,268 per person each year. Residents are 97% Belgian, 1.5% French, 0.3% Romanian, 0.3% Italian, 0.2% Portuguese, 0.1% Dutch, 0.1% Algerian and 0.6% other.
There are currently 0 houses for rent in Houyet, so the listed average monthly rent is €0. No rental price range is given for houses. For comparison within the local property market, 18 houses are for sale, with an average asking price of €343,795 and prices from €100,000 to €695,000. The N94, N95, N910, N911 and N915 provide road connections. The A4/E411–E25, serving the route between Brussels, Namur, Arlon and Luxembourg, is 7 minutes by car from the centre of Houyet. The A15/E42, connecting La Louvière, Charleroi, Namur and Liège, is 36 minutes away. There are 8 bus lines, including TEC 141, 25, 421, 423 and 47. The nearest stations are Houyet, Gendron-Celles, Anseremme, Beauraing and Dinant.
Childcare and schools include 3 nurseries, 6 nursery schools and 6 primary schools, with Ecole Fondamentale Communale among the named options. Houyet has no secondary school. The listed grocery shop is 1 Louis Delhaize. No metro or tram lines are listed. There are no shared bicycles or shared cars in the municipality, and no known electric-vehicle charging station. Brussels South Charleroi Airport is 50 minutes away by car and 142 minutes by public transport. These are the available local figures for a house search in a municipality where houses make up most of the building stock.
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