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...Why The mansion looks out over the 18-hole golf course designed by the South African great Gary Player, also known for its wide fairways lined with olive trees....
...Why Close to the 12th fairway of the Wentworth golf course, this house offers semi-rural living for golfing families....
...Each contains villas along the fairways and around the greens....
...On higher ground, the agency is selling a five-bedroom villa with party cellar and pool for €6.5m. Naturally golf fans will want to buy near the fairway....
...Doubles from €1,360; javri.fi Seaside Glass Villas, Kemi Launched last winter, the 37 villas sit in a line overlooking the Bay of Bothnia, with glass walls so guests can watch storms roll in over the frozen...
...On the outskirts of Phoenix, where fairways and greens cover the desert landscape, the fortunes of golf and the housing market are closely linked....
...In March, Damac launched Trump PRVT, a development of exclusive homes set within Trump Estates, “a gated island community amid the lush greens and fairways” of the same club....
...Metre-high grasses, including sugarcane, form swathes of rough; natural ravines haven’t been remodelled by diggers; the driving range and fairways are grazed by a flock of 900 sheep....
...Why The villa overlooks the fifth and sixth fairways of the Oceanico Millennium golf course, which opened in 2000 and has since helped to make Vilamoura one of the main golf destinations in Europe....
...Quinta do Lago has just released 26 new plots sized between 2,000 and 3,000 sq metres on a tract named San Lorenzo North, which fronts a fairway and a tidal inlet, in what it describes as the scheme’s last...
...Other examples include Aria Sky Suites, an upmarket annexe to the Aria Resort, while the Wynn resort has the Fairway Villas, 42 luxurious properties overlooking the golf course....
...On the signature par five, 17th hole, he hits a drive 280 yards on to the fairway, then a second across a ravine that lands next to the pin....
...The 300-hectare site is also undeniably beautiful, with its villas and low-rise apartment buildings nestling among copses of pine and native cork trees, never too far from the fairways....
...The contemporary five-bedroom villa overlooks the 16th fairway and is built from a mixture of glass and slate....
...Six golf courses are planned, two of which will have property for sale around the fairway....
...Some 150 new villas, most beachfront or on a golf course, are to be priced from €1.3m to €10m and go on sale this month ....
...Our interview was to take place in an $11m villa, one of the many that line the fairways at Mission Hills Golf Club in Shenzhen, the Chinese business hub north of Hong Kong....
...“I felt I hit it well, and the truth is that the ball rebounded nicely off the tree on to the fairway. I knew that with two more strokes to play, I had many chances to win. I never lost confidence.”...
...Villas around the course sell for €2,300 ($3,600) to €3,200 ($5,000) per sq m, depending on location....
...“Average plot sizes of 500 sq metres start from €200,000 for a three-bedroom villa rising to €700,000 for a five-bedroom country house.”...
...“Not everyone plays golf but our theme is that the courses are in effect their gardens – they look out on these rolling fairways and lakes and greens....
...One 2,800 sq ft, three-bedroom villa is priced at $1.65m and the average cost of a home is $4.5m....
...As for “decrepit old men”, why on earth don’t the smooth salesmen who try to flog overpriced fairway villas around bland new courses come clean and say that’s who they think these homes will be full of in...
...Golf on the scale of Mission Hills only pays through property development and 2,000 villas are sold or under construction....
...At Dubai’s new Montgomerie course, for example, few of the villa owners even play....
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