Our Favorite International Home Listings of 2022
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This year, the International Real Estate column led readers around the world to visit dozens of available homes in every possible style, from a restored 17th-century flour mill in Spain to an ultramodern house with a built-in water slide in the Maldives. Here are some of our favorites.
A Cabin in the Forests of British Columbia, Canada
$4.5 million
An Andes Retreat Outside Cuenca, Ecuador
$550,000
Perched at the eastern edge of El Cajas National Park, a Unesco-designated biosphere reserve, this contemporary home sits on four undulating acres outside of Cuenca, Ecuador’s third-largest city. With the 110-square-mile park as its backdrop, the four-bedroom, three-bath house “is isolated and surrounded by nature,” said Ashley Rogers, founder of Ecuador At Your Service. Its design includes underground tanks for fuel and water storage, and a discrete 818-square-foot apartment beneath the 1,830-square-foot main home. — Michael Kaminer
Etched Into a Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa
$4.7 million
An Old Fort With New Life in Rajasthan, India
$4.6 million
A Villa With Eyelashes in Rotterdam, Netherlands
$4.1 million
A ‘Liberty’ Perch Over Lake Como, Italy
$1.5 million
Built on a stone retaining wall with an integrated entry into the unfinished basement, this four-bedroom, six-bath villa is in Brunate, a village in northern Italy perched above the city of Como and its famed lake. Built in 1908 in the Italian “Liberty” style, a variant of Art Nouveau, the property had been owned by the same family for 115 years. It was updated in 2013, with the owner opting to maintain the characteristic Liberty style and preserving the original terrazzo flooring in all but two rooms. The project included adding bathrooms to two bedrooms, creating a five-car parking area and installing irrigation in the garden. — Lana Bortolot
A Restored Flour Mill Near Valencia, Spain
$105,000
Tucked into the remote hills of Aragón, an autonomous community in northeastern Spain, this converted 17th-century flour mill is nown a quaint country residence about an hour northeast of the high-altitude town of Teruel, 90 miles northwest of Valencia. The two-bedroom, one-bath, 2,475-square-foot stone house, on a 4,300-square-foot lot, was fully restored in 2000 with an eye on preserving its authenticity, said Ana Vela, a co-founder of The Singular Space, which specializes in unique properties across Spain. — Roxana Popescu
An Expanded 16th-Century Hotel in Falkirk, Scotland
$1.6 million
Built in the 16th century and rebuilt 300 years later, this 12,798-square-foot manor house sits on the outskirts of Falkirk, a town in the central Scotland county of Stirlingshire. The house, known as Powfoulis Manor, anchors a 17-acre estate near the River Forth that also comprises several outbuildings including stables, a workshop, a garage, a two-bedroom staff cottage and a guest wing with 16 bedrooms built in the early 1970s. The property has been sold just twice in five centuries, said Harry Maitland, a director at Savills UK in Kinross. — Michael Kaminer
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