luxury house with panoramic view for sale Dotzigen, Switzerland

A rare architectural gem in the heart of the village: a family residence, large-scale commercial spaces, and a building lot with a panoramic view. Located in the center of the charming village of Lajoux, in the heart of the majestic Franches-Montagnes, this exceptional property represents a rare opportunity in the Jura real estate market. Owned by a joint-stock company (SA), the property is being offered through the sale of the company’s shares, thereby allowing the buyer to avoid the transfer taxes typically due when purchasing real estate. Combining the region’s authentic charm with modern technical features, this versatile estate will appeal to both savvy investors and buyers seeking a custom-tailored lifestyle project. Primary Residence & Living Spaces The main living area currently comprises a spacious 7.5-room family apartment, bathed in natural light and designed with well-being in mind. The generous floor space makes it easy to envision either a large family home or a conversion into several luxury apartments, offering remarkable flexibility in layout. Development Potential: The living area offers excellent possibilities for expansion or reconfiguration of the spaces. Sustainable Energy: In line with current standards, the property features a recently installed (2025) solar panel system, ensuring optimal energy efficiency. Commercial Space & Professional Facilities With a remarkable floor area of 750 m², the commercial section includes a store as well as a fully operational laboratory. Yield & Flexibility: The commercial space is currently leased on a net basis (CHF 800.-/month), providing a stable rental income while the apartment remains occupied by the owners. This property can continue to be used for rental purposes or accommodate a new project in the artisanal, medical, creative, or logistics sectors. Location & Lifestyle The location offers the perfect balance between rural tranquility and proximity to modern amenities: Day-to-day: Local shops and the bus stop are less than a 5-minute walk away. Connectivity: The region’s main hubs—Saignelégier, Tramelan, and Glovelier—along with their educational, medical, and rail infrastructure, are all less than a 10-minute drive away. An exclusive opportunity presented by Switzerland Sotheby’s International Realty. Complete property details and private viewings available upon request. Exteriors, Outbuildings & Building Lot The exterior is an invitation to serenity. The large private garden enjoys a completely unobstructed view of the surrounding farmland, offering a natural landscape that changes with the seasons. Parking Capacity: The property features 6 enclosed garages as well as several outdoor parking spaces—a rare and highly sought-after asset. Land Development: The estate includes a plot of buildable land, paving the way for densification, the construction of a second building, or the preservation of a vast green space.

Marin-Epagnier is a 10-minute drive from Neuchâtel. Panoramic view of the lake facing the sunset Direct access to the lake Spacious outdoor areas with trees and landscaping Largely renovated mansion High-end features and luxury finishes

IN 1985, THIS RESTORED FARMHOUSE WAS AWARDED THE NEUCHÂTEL HEIMATSCHUTZ PRIZE. THE PAST IN THE PRESENT When architecture meets the contemporary past, or how to bridge three and a half centuries of history. All that stands between the original "belle chambre" and the modern living room in the former stable is a simple wooden door. A leap of three hundred and fifty years. But not the slightest shock: just life going on, in the gentle rolling hills of this northern tip of the Val-de-Ruz. It's a Jura farmhouse, as there are still a few in the region. Built in 1652, it had belonged throughout the last century to the same family of modest farmers, the Scheideggers. When the father died in the 1960s, the mother and daughter continued to live there as they had in the previous century, with only electricity and water from the cistern. The tiny living quarters consisted of the hearth (the kitchen), the "belle chambre", which was only entered on special occasions, and a small room above: the "grandfather's room", accessed through a trapdoor by climbing over the stove. The rest was the empty barn and stable. The house was abandoned in the mid-1970s when, with the death of the mother, the daughter had to be placed in a home. In the ten years that Henri and Paule Schneider had been scouring the region for a farmhouse to restore, they must have passed this ruin ten times: cracked walls, a roof ready to collapse, rotting roof timbers... What prompted them, on that summer's day in 1979, to take a look inside? And there, in what's left of the kitchen, supporting a blackened hearth with a derisory little wood-burning stove, they stopped in front of the column: a marvellous ashlar corner column, carved, intact, as beautiful as the day it was built, supporting a straight-headed fireplace. They bought the column... and the ruin around it. Not without first having to pay off a developer who was planning to build vacation apartments there. Purchase price: 50,000 francs. As a result, the Heimatschutz stepped in and immediately classified the facade. As for the rest... the brave owners embarked on an adventure similar to that recounted by Katharina von Arx in Ma Folie Romainmôtier . Henri Schneider, an ETS engineer in the watchmaking industry, and his wife Paule - "no training but a passion" - went to work with local craftsmen, rediscovering techniques, relearning traditional gestures, transforming themselves, weekend after weekend, into laborers, masons, carpenters, draughtsmen and historians. First objective: the shell. Jean-Louis Geiser, a carpenter from La Ferrière, is creating the new framework, calculated to modern standards but using the techniques of the old building: six columns, rafters made from fir trunks cut on two sides, beams and uprights adjusted and fixed with wooden pegs. The 305 m² roof will be covered, as in the original, with 66 cm-long wooden shingles, cut from white fir that Henri Schneider chose in the forest with Denis Sauser from La Chaux-du-Milieu, one of the last specialists in this art (he was awarded the Heimatschutz Prize in 1981). The façade, which proudly displays the date 1652 on the front portal, was in itself an architectural and historical book: the superb mullioned window of the beautiful room, opened in 1673, had been blocked up at a time when taxes were set according to the number of windows surrounded by stone! It will now be restored. On the east side, the awning, the bread oven roof and the construction of the grandfather's bedroom on the second floor date from the 18th century. And from the

IN 1985, THIS RESTORED FARMHOUSE WAS AWARDED THE NEUCHÂTEL HEIMATSCHUTZ PRIZE. THE PAST IN THE PRESENT When architecture meets the contemporary past, or how to bridge three and a half centuries of history. All that stands between the original "belle chambre" and the modern living room in the former stable is a simple wooden door. A leap of three hundred and fifty years. But not the slightest shock: just life going on, in the gentle rolling hills of this northern tip of the Val-de-Ruz. It's a Jura farmhouse, as there are still a few in the region. Built in 1652, it had belonged throughout the last century to the same family of modest farmers, the Scheideggers. When the father died in the 1960s, the mother and daughter continued to live there as they had in the previous century, with only electricity and water from the cistern. The tiny living quarters consisted of the hearth (the kitchen), the "belle chambre", which was only entered on special occasions, and a small room above: the "grandfather's room", accessed through a trapdoor by climbing over the stove. The rest was the empty barn and stable. The house was abandoned in the mid-seventies when, with the death of the mother, the daughter had to be placed in a home. In the ten years that Henri and Paule Schneider had been scouring the region for a farmhouse to restore, they must have passed this ruin ten times: cracked walls, a roof ready to collapse, rotting roof timbers... What prompted them, on that summer's day in 1979, to take a look inside? And there, in what's left of the kitchen, supporting a blackened hearth with a derisory little wood-burning stove, they stopped in front of the column: a marvellous ashlar corner column, carved, intact, as beautiful as the day it was built, supporting a straight-headed fireplace. They bought the column... and the ruin around it. Not without first having to pay off a developer who was planning to build vacation apartments there. Purchase price: 50,000 francs. As a result, the Heimatschutz stepped in and immediately classified the facade. As for the rest... the brave owners embarked on an adventure similar to that recounted by Katharina von Arx in Ma Folie Romainmôtier . Henri Schneider, an ETS engineer in the watchmaking industry, and his wife Paule - "no training but a passion" - went to work with local craftsmen, rediscovering techniques, relearning traditional gestures, transforming themselves, weekend after weekend, into laborers, masons, carpenters, draughtsmen and historians. First objective: the shell. Jean-Louis Geiser, a carpenter from La Ferrière, is creating the new framework, calculated to modern standards but using the techniques of the old building: six columns, rafters made from fir trunks cut on two sides, beams and uprights adjusted and fixed with wooden pegs. The 305 m² roof will be covered, as in the original, with 66 cm-long wooden shingles, cut from white fir that Henri Schneider chose in the forest with Denis Sauser from La Chaux-du-Milieu, one of the last specialists in this art (he was awarded the Heimatschutz Prize in 1981). The façade, which proudly displays the date 1652 on the front portal, was in itself an architectural and historical book: the superb mullioned window of the beautiful room, opened in 1673, had been blocked up at a time when taxes were set according to the number of windows surrounded by stone! It will now be restored. On the east side, the awning, the bread oven roof and the construction of the grandfather's bedroom on the second floor date from the 18th century. And from the