Villa Gessle Is Growing UpwardsIs the couple Per and Åsa Gessle planning an addition to the family?In any case the enormous villa in Sandhamn isn't enough. The house is about to grow in height.
There were many turns before Villa Gessle was ready for occupation in summer 1997.
The very special house in natural stone was redrawn many times by the architects.
Partly to fit the owner, partly the plans that controls what was allowed to be built
on the 2650 square metres big site in Sandhamn just outside Halmstad. New building permit grantedBut despite the fact that the pop millionaire already from the beginning built an enormous building it's not enough for the family. Since August 1997 it also consists of their son Gabriel Titus.In December the building office's chief Owe Wigren with delegation granted yet another building permit. - Gessle has permission to enlarge on height. The building permit is granted and it corresponds with the detail plan. The building permit contains two bedrooms which together are 34 square metres on the second floor, says Lennart Damgaard. Big parts of the villa in Sandhamn is covered by a tarpaulin. Underneath it the building is under construction. Tax-freeThe Gessle family can most likely enlarge even more if they'll get cramped for space. Basically you can say that the allowed building area at 400 square metres corresponds to a floor area at 800 square metres if the area is divided into two floors and is not exceeding the highest building height.How much money Gessle has spent on the house is not official. The ratable value was at least last year almost eight million SEK of which the building was assesed for 7.45 million SEK. That signifies a property tax at 10 000 SEK - a month! But since the house is quite recently built the Gessle family doesn't have to pay taxes for five years. From the year 2004 they will pay half property tax for five years and first then they will pay full tax.
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