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Location, comfort, resort-style features, and low-maintenance living are all important to making your home away from home, or a more permanent lifestyle change, convenient and enjoyable.
Whether you’re in the city looking for a sea or tree change, or searching for the perfect weekender or holiday home, there’s plenty of choice on the market.
Here are our five favourite luxury retreats for sale right now.
27 Bradford Road, Mount Martha, VIC
Set at the peak of a cascading 2214 sq m (approx.) allotment, this seaside estate in Mount Martha offers panoramic views of Port Phillip Bay.
The property features a range of luxurious elements, including floor-to-ceiling windows on both levels, lift access, a culinary kitchen with stone benchtops and a cocktail station, a wine cellar, a wet bar, concrete floors, and an avant-garde chandelier.
Outdoors, this sense of luxury continues with a salt-chlorinated, solar-heated pool, an alfresco garden featuring a barbecue kitchen, and a lily pond with a footbridge leading to an entertainment studio with a kitchen and bathroom.
The property is close to a range of amenities, including local schools, beaches, the golf course, and Martha Cove Marina.
34 Marine Parade, Avalon Beach, NSW
This North Avalon home offers a coastal lifestyle, just 400 metres from the beach and close to Avalon Village.
The contemporary layout and functionality of the home were designed by architect Sean Gartner, who merged indoor and outdoor living through the north-facing aspect, bringing natural light into the home, and by incorporating sliding stacker doors that connect the open-plan kitchen, dining and living zone to the outdoor deck.
The expansive deck features built-in seating and a gas fireplace overlooking the mineral swimming pool.
The property also includes five bedrooms and four bathrooms, set primarily on a single level, with the fifth bedroom or family room and a bathroom on the first floor.
20 Maxwell Street, Blairgowrie, VIC
Designed and built by renowned local designer Darryn Treacey, this newly completed Blairgowrie home offers luxurious, low-maintenance living across its multi-level layout.
The open-plan living and dining area features high, pitched timber ceilings, exposed beams and skylights that capture natural light. Full-height glazing connects the three separate alfresco areas, landscaped gardens and the fully tiled, heated pool and spa.
The home features premium fixtures, materials, and finishes, including Wormy Chestnut hardwood flooring and custom Boston Oak joinery, and has a 7-star energy rating and a solar PV system.
36 Derriwong Road, Dural, NSW
Perfect for a large family or multigenerational living, this property sits on five acres behind a gated entry in Dural.
The multi-zoned floor plan includes an oversized living room, a formal lounge with balcony access, and an open-plan dining and family area.
There is a self-contained one-bedroom granny flat on the lower level, with a carport.
Outside, the property is set back from the road, with established trees, two courtyards, verandas, a wrap-around balcony, and a resort-style pool area.
30 Seabird Way, Portsea, VIC
This architecturally designed home is close to Portsea Village and Portsea beaches.
Set on 1237 sq m (approx.), the property features established gardens, a tennis court, a semi-covered pool and spa, a terrace, and a covered deck.
The home itself has five bedrooms, two with en-suites, all on the lower floor, while the open-plan kitchen, dining, and living area are on the entry level.
