Property Blevio
Property inBlevio.
What comes up in Blevio, what almost never does, and how buying here differs from buying elsewhere on the lake.
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How buying in Blevio works
Two things set price. The first is frontage: a garden that reaches the water with a landing stage or boathouse on it is a fundamentally different asset from one that stops at the road, and the difference is not incremental. The second is the road itself. The shore road runs through the middle of the comune, and a villa split by it, with a garden on the far side, is a common arrangement here that buyers should look at carefully rather than dismiss or ignore.
The honest drawback is the proximity that is also the main attraction. This is a commuter shore as well as a villa shore: the road carries traffic in and out of Como and it can be busy at the ends of the day and heavy on summer weekends. A house set well above or well below it barely notices; a house on it notices constantly. Anyone buying here on the strength of a quiet Sunday viewing in April should return on a Friday evening in July before committing.
For the village itself, its character, its property market and how to get there, read our guide to Blevio.
01What the houses are like
Nineteenth-century villa with garden to the water
The category the shore is known for: terraced grounds, a landing stage, and rooms scaled for entertaining. Rarely offered publicly.
Villa divided by the shore road
House on one side, garden and frontage on the other, usually with a right of passage. Common here, and priced differently from an undivided plot.
Hamlet house on a shelf
Smaller, older, reached by steps, frequently with a terrace and no parking. The attainable end of a very expensive shore.
Contemporary house above the road
Built or rebuilt on the upper slope for the view and the parking, and generally with better light than the water's edge below it.
Property in Blevio: questions
Is Blevio a village?
Not in the usual sense. It is a comune made up of small hamlets along a steep shore, without a centre, a high street or a square.
This is either the attraction or the objection, and buyers divide sharply. If you want to walk out of your door to a bar and a bakery, look at Torno or across the water at Cernobbio. If you want a house, a garden and a boat, with a city rather than a village behind it, Blevio is arranged exactly for that.
How close is Blevio to Como?
It begins where Como ends, on the eastern bank, and the city's stations, hospital and shops are a short road run away.
We deliberately do not publish a journey time, because the lakeside road varies enormously with the season and the hour. The useful way to think about it is that Blevio is the only stretch of this shore where a lake house can reasonably serve as a main residence with a working life attached to it.
Is the shore road a problem?
It can be. It carries commuter traffic to and from Como and gets heavy in season, and the effect on a particular house depends entirely on how far it sits above or below the road.
This is the honest drawback of the shore. A villa with its garden running down from well above the road, or one screened below it, is quiet; a house whose windows face it is not. Visit at the end of a weekday and again on a summer weekend before deciding, and ask specifically about the arrangement where a garden is on the opposite side of the road from the house.
Why are there so many nineteenth-century villas at Blevio?
The shore was favoured in the nineteenth century by figures from the Milanese opera world, and several of the houses along it date from that period.
Milan is close, the bank faces a good stretch of water, and the land was available in large enough parcels for gardens. That inheritance is why the stock here skews to substantial houses with terraced grounds and landing stages, and why so much of it is subject to heritage constraints today.
Can I get a mooring at Blevio?
Practically speaking, only by buying a house that already has one. There is no significant public harbour on this shore.
Landing stages and boathouses here are attached to individual properties and date from a period when they could still be built. They are among the most valuable elements of any sale on this bank, and they are the reason two apparently similar villas can be priced very differently.
Does Blevio get enough sun?
It varies more than most buyers expect, hamlet by hamlet, because the ridge behind is immediate and the hillside folds.
In summer nobody notices. In winter the difference between two houses a few hundred metres apart can be substantial, and it is not something a photograph or a spring viewing will reveal. We would look at any specific property on a clear December morning and again in mid-afternoon before forming a view, and we do not publish sun hours we have not measured ourselves.
Written by The Como Private Desk
This page is editorial information based on our own work on the lake, not a valuation or a survey. Prices and availability move; treat any figure as an indication and take professional advice before committing.
Sources
- Comune di Blevio, Hamlet boundaries, parking provision and constraints on works to listed villas.
- Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio (Como), Heritage listing status of individual villas, to be confirmed per property before describing any renovation scope.
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