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Super-rich buying up ‘Downton Abbey estates’ to escape pandemic – The Guardian
Sales of £15m-plus English country homes breaking records as wealthy families ‘recalibrate their priorities’
The worlds super-rich are seeking to escape from coronavirus lockdowns in cities by buying multimillion-pound English country estates to create Downton Abbey lifestyles, complete with butlers, cooks, housekeepers and armies of gardeners.
Estate agents are reporting a surge in sales of vast country estates and former castle properties, which until Covid-19 struck had become increasingly hard to shift as the richest of the rich instead opted to live in luxurious skyscraper penthouses, on tropical…
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