Modern lakefront home for sale in Wye Creek, Queenstown, New Zealand. Completed in 2024, the 435 sqm residence sits on 3,740 sqm with direct access to Drift Bay and Lake Wakatipu.

Near Rodez in Aveyron, a 1208 château listed as a historic monument has been fully renovated for private use. It pairs 13th-century architecture with the infrastructure of a modern home.

Built in 1927 for the founding family of Purchase, New York, the estate is configured as a multi-structure compound with a 14,680-square-foot main residence, two guest houses, a pool house, and a hangar.

A château dating to 1422 anchors this 24-hectare (59.3-acre) estate in the Côtes du Rhône, listed for €1,600,000. Of the total holding, 16.9 hectares (41.8 acres) are planted in AOP vineyard, with vaulted cellars and former cuveries.

The 25-room property includes a terrace known as “The Roof of the World,” along with 2.9 hectares of parkland and a private helicopter pad. Nice Côte d’Azur International Airport is approximately 15 minutes away by car.

One of the largest properties in Menaggio, with 1,050 feet of private lake frontage, Villa Olivetta is a Victorian outlier among the Italianate and Liberty-style estates that define Lake Como, built in the late 19th century by London-born engineer Herman Mylius.

In Givry, a village at the heart of Burgundy’s Côte Chalonnaise, this former bishop’s residence combines 18th-century architecture, private parkland, and proximity to world-renowned vineyards.

A Richard Meier–designed residence conceived as a livable art gallery has quietly entered the Dallas market for $23 million. Set within the Park Cities enclave, it was built to house an 800-work collection now pledged to the Dallas Museum of Art.

A 409 m² (4,402 sq ft) Art Deco apartment once home to Brigitte Bardot during her marriage to Gunter Sachs has been listed for sale. With ten reception rooms and a 52 m² (560 sq ft) winter garden, it offers the kind of scale and formality long associated with Paris’s 16th arrondissement.

At its center stands the Mill House, built around the 1775 grist mill “Defiance,” constructed by the Livingston family during the Revolutionary era. The water that once powered its machinery remains visible from within the residence, now forming a waterfall backdrop.