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Jan 2025
Ripley Castle is £21m - here are 8 properties for sale at the same price
Ripley Castle and the surrounding estate have gone on the market for £21 million, but would it be your choice if you had the money?
Here, we take a look at eight properties around the world that are all currently on the market and could turn the head of anyone with a spare £21 million to spend.
The most obvious place to look for this calibre of property is our capital city. In fact, properties for sale at £21 million only appear on page three of a Rightmove search of London – there are about 50 other properties for sale there with higher asking prices.
One that’s going for the same price as the Ripley Estate is 43 Lowndes Square, a top-floor flat overlooking “one of Knightsbridge's premier garden squares”, just off Sloane Street.
This Knightsbridge penthouse has a guide price of £21 million, but has planning consent to expand upwards.
It has planning permission for a penthouse (seventh) floor above, which would create an eight-bedroom duplex apartment with terracing.
This castle in the Scottish highlands is on the market for £5 million.
Beyond London, there’s nothing much with this price-tag in the UK. Huge Scottish estates sometimes come up for sale, but the closest contender in terms of price currently on the market is the glorious-looking Carbisdale Castle, which was built for the Duchess of Sutherland. It has 19 bedrooms and 29 acres of land, but it’s going for a quarter of the price, so doesn’t really fit the bill.
The stunning view from a Manhattan apartment for sale at £20.32 million.
Across the Atlantic, of course, there’s plenty to look at in this price bracket. You could opt for penthouse 60A in Madison House, a four-bedroom apartment in midtown Manhattan with fine views of the Empire State Building.
This waterfront house in Florida could be yours for £20.35 million.
Alternatively, there’s a six-bed waterside pile at Harbor Beach in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, that would give you quite a different lifestyle.
This villa in Barbados is for sale at £20.35 million.
Just across the Caribbean, One Beachlands is a newly-built villa on the west coast of Barbados with six bedrooms, sea views, and a 75-foot infinity pool.
Steele Pointe Villa in the British Virgin Islands is on the market for £20.33 million.
Or, if you fancy something a little more spacious, you could go for Steele Point Villa, an eight-acre property that forms part of a gated development on a peninsula of Tortola in the British Virgin Islands.
This 19th-century mansion in Mallorca is on the market for £21.13 million.
Back in Europe, you could opt for a 12-bedroom 19th-century Spanish manor house in Mallorca (above) or a 10-bedroom villa on the Cap d’Antibes in France (see main image).
This chalet in the French Alps is for sale at £20.29 million.
Or if you want somewhere that could offer dual summer/winter lifestyles, a seven-bedroom Alpine chalet in Courchevel, France, has cinema room, swimming pool and even its own hammam.
All of these are a far cry – and a long way – from Ripley Castle, which easily holds its own in such rarefied company. But which one would you choose?
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