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...Why The property is on nearly 3 acres of land, with a creek and two natural springs. Its elevated position offers views of Whitefish Lake and the house has various balconies and outdoor seating areas....
...Who Knight Frank/Sotheby’s International Realty Villa, Lenno, €5.25mn Where In the village of Lenno, on the western shore of Lake Como. Milan Malpensa airport is just over an hour away by car....
...Why The property is situated on the edge of its own 5,000 sq m private swimming lake and is surrounded by mature woodland and nature trails....
...Each of the four bedrooms has an en-suite bathroom and the sunken lounge looks out across the lake and nearby mountains. Why The property has 50 acres of land and its own private lake access....
...Who Sotheby’s International Realty Estate, Lake Tahoe, California, $21mn Where On the West Shore of Lake Tahoe, California....
...Its 5,925 acres of land feature four lakes, an equestrian centre and an aircraft hangar....
...Who Cascade Hasson Sotheby’s International Realty Hunts Point, Washington, $85mn Where On Hunts Point Road in Hunts Point, a town on the eastern shore of Lake Washington....
...Why The property has 56 acres of land and its own 8-acre lake....
...Why A 17.5km hiking trail loops around Lake Kawaguchi, which is one of the Fuji Five Lakes and part of the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park....
...What A seven-bedroom, seven-bathroom estate with more than 860 sq m of interior space and almost 50 acres of land. There is an outdoor pool and a man-made lake can be found among the mature gardens....
...Who Damianos/Sotheby’s International Realty Torno, Como, Lombardy, Italy, €3.5mn Where In the village of Torno, on the eastern shore of Lake Como....
...Who Fontana Sotheby’s International Realty Villa, Locarno, SFr6.99m ($7.63m) Where In Brione sopra Minusio, 4km north-east of Locarno and its train station....
...Canadian investment group Brookfield Asset Management began picking up land for the development decades ago, when it acquired assets from the failed property conglomerate Olympia & York....
...What This 19-bedroom, eight-bathroom ex-convent is set in more than two acres of land, with a wine cellar and views of the lake and San Giulio island....
...Who Luxury Portfolio Contemporary house, Lion’s Head, Ontario, Canada C$2.5m ($2.033m) Where On the Northern Bruce Peninsula, a 15km-wide stretch of land with Georgian Bay to the east and Lake Huron to...
...What This 23-bedroom, 23-bathroom estate has 166 hectares of land....
...The nearest international airport is Salt Lake City, about 55 miles away. What A property with 13 bedrooms and 13 bathrooms on just over two acres of land....
...Why The estate is on 168 acres, much of it parkland, with formal tiered gardens, a lake, duck pond and a brook running through it....
...“Many homeowners have decided not to rent and instead use their homes,” said Dana Trotter, with Sotheby’s International Realty in Bridgehampton, which has a short-term letting business....
...Why The property has stables, paddocks and grazing land and good access to riding paths....
...Sales have also increased in many of the smaller towns and cities around Lake Ontario, says Kottick, including Guelph, Kitchener-Waterloo and Whitby....
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...It has 12 bedrooms and 500 acres of land, including a lake. The property is on the market for €5m....
...Lake Wakatipu, set against mountains and forests of astonishing beauty, boasts year-round trout fishing and swimming beaches....
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