The Times: The Best Properties Near Golf Courses in Europe and the Caribbean

From the Algarve to Barbuda, golf resort living has found its post pandemic swing.

Buyers after fair weather and fairways are investing big in golf resorts in Europe and the Caribbean. The desire to escape inner-city congestion and the post-Covid shift to flexible remote working have made the prospect of living amid leafy, wide-open spaces increasingly seductive. So why not get your greenery with 18 holes and a spa as well?

In France Les Bordes in the Loire Valley has just added a stunning new Gil Hanse-designed course to its existing Robert Von Hagge-designed 18-hole masterpiece. More than half of the first phase of 45 three to six-bedroom houses have sold already, with prices starting at about £870,000. Buyers have so far come from the UK, US, Scandinavia, Germany, Switzerland and, of course, France. There are plans to convert the 19th-century Château Bel Air on the estate into an 88-room Six Senses hotel and spa, with tennis, fishing, bike trails, a village square and equestrian facilities. To toast victory in the clubhouse, the vineyards of Sancerre, Anjou and Chinon are all near by, but it’s the two fine golf courses and easy 90-mile drive from Paris that appeals most to British buyers.

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