4-Bedroom Villa with Sea Views for Sale in Kato Korakiana, Corfu
Basics
- Property Id:: 21494
- Type: Villa
- Status: For Sale
- Category: Investment, Residential, Sea View
- Bedrooms: 4
- Bathrooms: 2
- Area, m²: 231 m²
- Lot size, m²: 5400 m²
- Condition: Move-in ready
- Year built: 2012
- Swimming pool: Yes
- Date added: Added 1 week ago
Description
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Description:
This beautifully maintained villa, built in 2012, offers generous living space, privacy and uninterrupted views across the sea, Gouvia, Corfu Town and towards the mainland. Designed for full-time living, the property features high-quality insulation and a modern heat pump system, ensuring energy-efficient comfort all year round. Priced at €750,000, and offered through Chase Real Estate.
Property Overview
Set on a south-facing 5,400 square metre plot that enjoys sun from morning to evening, the home has a total built area of 231 square metres, including a 26 square metre garage. This scale of plot relative to the built footprint is a significant asset in its own right, giving the villa room to breathe within its surroundings and leaving substantial space for gardens, outdoor entertaining and future landscaping beyond what is already established.
The upper level includes a spacious open-plan living and dining area, which opens onto a 27 square metre covered balcony, ideal for relaxing and enjoying the sweeping views across the sea, Gouvia, Corfu Town and towards the mainland. This kind of panoramic, multi-point outlook, taking in both natural coastline and the island's main urban centre in the distance, is genuinely difficult to replicate, and it gives the villa a sense of place that few properties in the surrounding area can match. The kitchen is well-equipped, and the space is fitted with ceiling fans, a wood burner and a fan coil heat pump that provides both heating and cooling throughout the entire house, including all bedrooms, meaning the property is comfortable to live in across every season rather than being optimised purely for summer use.
The upper floor also houses the master bedroom, complete with a walk-in wardrobe and a generous en-suite bathroom, along with a guest toilet, giving the main level a self-contained, private character for the principal bedroom suite. On the lower level, directly accessing the pool area, there are three additional double bedrooms, a family bathroom, a utility room and internal access to the garage. This layout creates a clear and practical separation between the main living and entertaining spaces above and the private sleeping quarters below, an arrangement that works particularly well for families or for hosting guests, since the lower-level bedrooms open directly onto the pool terrace rather than requiring a journey through the main living areas.Construction and Specification
Built in 2012 with Quad-Lock insulation, the villa was constructed with year-round energy efficiency specifically in mind, rather than being adapted after the fact for full-time living. This is reflected throughout the specification, from the quality of the building envelope itself to the fan coil heat pump system that serves every bedroom and living space in the house, providing both heating in the cooler months and cooling during the height of summer from a single, efficient system.
The wood burner in the main living area adds a further, more traditional layer of comfort and atmosphere during the winter, complementing the heat pump system rather than replacing it, while ceiling fans throughout help maintain comfortable air circulation without relying solely on air conditioning during the warmer months. Together, these elements reflect a build genuinely designed around comfortable, efficient, full-time occupation, which is a meaningfully different proposition from many Corfu villas built primarily with seasonal holiday use in mind.Garden and Grounds
The grounds surrounding the villa are landscaped with Mediterranean planting, including a variety of fruit and olive trees, as well as herbs like rosemary, sage and thyme. Although not all trees are harvested every year, the property has produced around 25 litres of olive oil and several kilos of edible olives, giving the garden a genuinely productive character alongside its ornamental value. Additional trees include almond, apricot, pomegranate, fig, plum and kumquat, offering a diversity of fruit that few residential gardens on the island can match and providing a real sense of established, mature planting rather than a garden that has only recently been laid out.
This combination of ornamental Mediterranean planting, aromatic herbs and productive fruit and olive trees gives the outdoor space at Kato Korakiana a quality that goes beyond simple landscaping, creating a garden that rewards active enjoyment throughout the year, whether that means harvesting olives in season, picking fruit, or simply enjoying the scent of rosemary, sage and thyme carried on the breeze from the terrace.Pool and Outdoor Living
The private swimming pool is complemented by an outdoor toilet, ideal for summer entertaining, allowing guests to enjoy the pool and garden without needing to return indoors during long summer afternoons or evening gatherings. Positioned to take full advantage of the villa's elevated setting, the pool area shares in the same sweeping views enjoyed from the balcony above, meaning time spent outdoors is every bit as visually rewarding as time spent inside the main living spaces.
The lower-level bedrooms opening directly onto this pool area further strengthen the connection between the villa's interior and its outdoor amenities, making it easy for residents and guests alike to move seamlessly between the pool, the garden and the more private areas of the home.The Location
The location offers a serene and secluded setting, yet is conveniently just 5 minutes from nearby villages, 12 minutes from the east coast beaches, and approximately 30 minutes from Corfu International Airport. Kato Korakiana itself is a traditional village in this part of the island, and the villa's elevated position above the surrounding area is precisely what allows it to command such wide-reaching views across the sea, Gouvia and Corfu Town.
This balance of privacy and practicality is one of the villa's defining strengths. Many properties offering views of this quality are positioned considerably further from the island's key infrastructure, requiring longer drives to reach beaches, shops or the airport, whereas here the sweeping outlook is combined with genuinely convenient access to everyday amenities, the east coast's popular beaches, and international travel connections.Investment Potential
A villa of this size, energy specification and setting, built with quality insulation and a full heat pump system for year-round comfort, is particularly well suited to buyers seeking a genuine full-time residence rather than a purely seasonal holiday home. The combination of sweeping sea and town views, four bedrooms across two thoughtfully separated levels, a private pool and substantial, productive gardens gives the property broad appeal, whether as a permanent family home, a long-term retirement base, or a high-specification holiday property capable of commanding strong interest in the premium end of the local rental market.
For buyers specifically prioritising energy efficiency and comfort throughout the Corfiot winter, a consideration that is often overlooked in properties built purely for summer occupation, this villa's Quad-Lock insulation and heat pump specification set it apart from much of the surrounding housing stock. Chase Real Estate regards this as an exceptionally well-equipped and thoughtfully maintained villa in one of Corfu's more established residential areas, combining the practical benefits of a modern, efficient build with the character and productivity of a mature Mediterranean garden.Key Features
This four-bedroom villa offers a total built area of 231 square metres, including a 26 square metre garage, on a 5,400 square metre south-facing plot in Kato Korakiana. Built in 2012 with Quad-Lock insulation, the property includes an open-plan living and dining area with wood burner, ceiling fans and a heat pump system providing heating and cooling throughout, a master suite with walk-in wardrobe and en-suite bathroom, and two further bathrooms plus a guest toilet and pool toilet. The landscaped grounds include olive and fruit trees, and the private pool is complemented by an outdoor toilet. The villa lies 5 minutes from local villages, 12 minutes from the beaches and approximately 30 minutes from Corfu Airport, and is offered through Chase Real Estate at €750,000.
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- Neighborhoods: Kato Korakiana
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