Get the best of both worlds living near the coast
Where can you find an affordable home within easy reach of the city and the sea? It might seem too good to be true but that is exactly what’s available at Cleves Court, the Genesis development at Pitsea in Essex.
With the unpredictability of the English summer, you have to be ready to break away to the coast at short notice. Buying a home at Cleves Court makes it easy to do just that. Within 20 minutes you can be at Leigh-on-Sea, with its picturesque town, family beach and parks or Canvey Island with its lake and nature reserve.
At the same time, it’s ideal for commuters, with Pitsea Railway Station a short walk from the development offering regular services to London Fenchurch Street in just 41 minutes. In the other direction, this train service provides easy access to Southend in 20 minutes and to Basildon in four minutes.
Cleves Court is a stylish collection of 56 one and two bedroom apartments available on a shared ownership basis. A 25% share in a new one bedroom apartment costs just £24,375, based on the full market value of £97,500. Buyers can purchase between 25% and 75% and increase their share at any time, all the way to 100% and outright ownership.
Situated on the site of the former dairy on Station Lane, the development includes four, five and eight storey buildings all centred around a communal, landscaped courtyard.
The apartments are designed to offer perfect modern living, with an open plan kitchen and living/dining room. All of the rooms, including the bedrooms and bathrooms have been generously designed with many apartments featuring a balcony, where residents can relax and enjoy fine weather.
Completed to a high specification, the apartments include sleek and modern kitchens with contrasting cream cabinets and dark wood kitchen work surfaces and flooring. Appliances include an Indesit washer/dryer, fridge freezer, electric hob and extractor fan. The spacious bathroom features include a thermostatically controlled shower above the bath, white floor to ceiling tiling, free standing basin and a large mirror with spotlights above. The lounge, hall and bedrooms are covered in cream carpets and there are storage facilities in the hallways.
The apartments include video entry phones to provide residents with added security, a car parking space in the undercroft car park and additional storage for bicycles.
Cleves Court is available to anyone who does not already own a property and is unable to buy a home on the open market. Their total household income must be less than £60,000 per annum and ideally they will have savings of around £3,500 to cover moving and legal costs.
Prices at Cleves Court start from £24,375 for a 25% share in a one bedroom apartment based on a full market value of £97,500 and £28,750 for a two bedroom apartment based on a full market price of £115,000. For further information, visit genesishomes.org.uk.
