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Super-rich buying up ‘Downton Abbey estates’ to escape pandemic
Sales of £15m-plus English country homes breaking records as wealthy families ‘recalibrate their priorities’
The world’s 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 islands or superyachts.
Read the original article at The Guardian