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...Opens February, doubles from AUD250 (£131); standardx.com Maldives Almost 30 years on from the opening of Soneva Fushi, Sonu Shivdasani and Eva Malmström’s first hotel, in the Maldives, Soneva Secret promises...
...Baillie Lodges has set the bar for experiential luxury in Australia’s wildernesses, at properties such as Longitude 131° at Uluru-Kata Tjuta and Capella Lodge on Lord Howe Island....
...Some 13 miles south of Woodstock, developer HudsonWoods is selling a three-bedroom house for $1.18m, one of 26 new homes on 131 acres....
...“He hasn’t got acres of dirt under his fingernails,” one banker says....
...What A 15th-century tower that was extended in the 19th century, on 30 acres of grounds....
...There is an orangery, a cast-iron and glass south-facing winter garden and 5.66 acres of land. Why The castle was built in stages between 1250 and 1880....
...Why The estate has about 80 acres of mixed native and commercial conifer woodland, with approval to establish a further 1,132 acres by Forestry Commission Scotland....
...There are 36 acres of formal and kitchen gardens, plus paddocks. Why The property is less than 10 miles from Rugby School, the birthplace of the eponymous game....
...The 84-acre property has cedar, lime, pine, plane and ash trees....
...Who Strutt & Parker, struttandparker.com, tel: +44 131 226 2500 Listowel, Water Mill, Mecox Bay, New York, US, $40m Where In the waterside hamlet of Water Mill in the Hamptons....
...It will take six months to move 12,000 employees to the 175-acre site....
...Silver Star is by far the most developed of these areas, with 3,282 acres, 12 lifts, 131 runs and a 760m vertical. Wooden buildings come in cheery blues and yellows....
...Home to an 81-acre Pittville Park, the area attracts those favouring green space over the amenities of Montpellier, and buyer demand increased 8.4 per cent from 2014 to 2015, according to Knight Frank....
...Yet a swath of property and land — 93 acres on and around Sloane Street and Sloane Square — is still owned by Sir Hans Sloane’s descendants, including the Cadogan Hotel where in 1895 Oscar Wilde was arrested...
...struttandparker.com, tel: +44 131 226 2500 Buying guide What you can buy for … £500,000 A rural four-bedroom property with five acres on the edge of an estate £1m A Victorian house with up to 50 acres...
...Who Savills Edinburgh, savills.co.uk, tel: +44 131 247 3700...
...The property comes with almost one acre of grounds and backs on to Coombe Hill Golf Club....
...In the US, the world’s biggest agricultural exporter, farmers this spring planted a record 84.8m acres with soyabeans....
...The property comes with stables, kennels and a caretaker’s cottage in need of repair, all set in 190 acres of land....
...Who: Knight Frank, knightfrank.co.uk, tel: +44 131 222 9600 ——————————————- Farmhouse, Esporles, Mallorca, Spain, €6m Where: In the Balearic Islands off the coast of Spain, 8km from the town of Esporles...
...Who: Savills, savills.com, tel: +44 131 247 3700 ——————————————- Villa, Guils de Cerdanya, Catalonia, Spain, €5.5m Where: In the province of Girona, about 100 miles from Barcelona airport....
...What: A seven-bedroom Georgian country house with two cottages in 24 acres....
...Who Savills, tel: +44 131 265 2044...
...The property has two self-contained flats in the basement for guests or staff and comes with half an acre of gardens....
...Why The lodge has access to the privately owned ski lift that serves just the 50 high-end properties in Big Springs, an exclusive neighbourhood in the 3000-acre Northstar Resort....
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