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...Nestled at the top of a hill and shrouded behind trees and fences, Son’s European-style villa is now mostly hidden from passers-by....
...Below a mix of medieval and Romanesque buildings arranged along cobbled streets, its southern side drops away in a steep cliff providing striking views....
...What A 1,600 sq m villa, two apartments and buildings including a chapel....
...The Italian financial police said it had seized apartments, villas, luxury cars, watches and jewellery with a total value of more than €600mn....
...Why The central location, less than 200 metres from the southern shore of Lake Geneva....
...What A three-bedroom, two-bathroom villa, with 663 sq m of living space. Decorated traditionally, the interior is currently split into a main apartment and a guest apartment....
...Redfern says there is more available to buy below £5mn, especially apartments....
...Villa, Cascais, €13mn Where In the Sintra-Cascais Natural Park, to the west of Cascais town. The beach is about 15 minutes’ drive, and Lisbon can be reached in 45 minutes....
...Last year Sprod and Bullock opened a clutch of tumbledown farm buildings as an eco-resort collection of suites and apartments....
...The 11 accommodations, ranging from one-room junior suites to a clutch of small apartments, reflect the patrician rural setting: simple white walls and timber floors, cast-iron beds....
...For every dapper Don Draper with his martini-soaked Manhattan apartment there’s a slightly soiled, brown velvet version in Mill Hill; a memory of parents’ friends’ houses, smelling of stale cigarette smoke...
...Why Huge Gothic-inspired arches and floor-to-ceiling windows make the villa architecturally impressive; it’s also built to be fire and earthquake safe....
...What A restored villa on a 10,000 sq m plot, with a main residence and an independent apartment, adding up to 290 sq m of living space....
...A second building, called Meia Lua, holds seven suites and two independent apartments....
...What A 110 sq m renovated apartment with two bedrooms and two bathrooms, in a nine-storey building with a concierge....
...I will have a nice apartment, I will live well, and I will not look back.” Instead, she became a happy playwright....
...What A refurbished early 20th-century villa with a self-contained studio apartment above a garage. There are five bedrooms and four bathrooms across the 500 sq m of living space....
...What A villa with more than 1,300 sq m of living space including seven bedrooms, two of which are in separate apartments and most of which have walk-in closets....
...past shuttered villas to get a glimpse of the countryside beyond....
...What’s more, around 50 per cent of rural homes are sold off market, says Charlie Hill of agent Charles Marlow....
...The hotel also has four impressive “houses” on the rooftop level, styled as stand-alone apartments, two of which have their own huge terrace (one of them has a barbecue) with views of the city, all complete...
...Once there, the whole place is theirs for the roaming for a half or full day, giving visitors exclusive access to a thatch-roofed villa, alfresco spa suites, plunge pools, a dining platform suspended over...
...Given its position between Signal Hill and the coastline, the house has ocean and mountain views....
...That dazzling white, lit by the brilliant southern sun, forms the backdrop to the trellises of vines and pots of oleanders and rosemary....
...What A renovated 500 sq m country house dating to the 18th century, with a total of 10 bedrooms and 11 bathrooms, currently split into four apartments....
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