won £169,000,000 on Friday, tax free,
so I am guessing that they might be looking for a bigger home, and this is just so big!
it is the “Château du Bouilh” in France, “ the main logis has not been
lived in for nearly a century,” says Linda Matthew, the agent representing the
home for Leggett the most magical thing about the castle is that it doesn’t
just consist of one grand building. It feels like a veritable Versailles, a
compound of structures and follies that, in some cases, span back thousands of
years, so what do you get? there are 30 bedrooms, numerous grand salons, a library,
vaulted ceilings and vineyard; a neo-gothic chapel, water tower, and s he
entirety of the lot is a whopping 700,000 meters squared, even hectares of
caves for stashing your treasures,
“The chateau has been in two families since its construction by Jean-Frédéric de La Tour du Pin, [and] owned the estate from 1524,” said Linda. “The reason for the sale,” she says, “is that the current family cannot afford to run and maintain the château.”
so for the winner £179 million less the asking price of £7 million still leaves you £170 million for a lick of paint and some lose change to pay the gardner! the sale is listed here, along with some of the history behind the chateau.
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