Five for the shortlist this week — a Golden Mile villa with its own private lift, a restored Chianti farmhouse looking out at a medieval hamlet, an Algarve home whose price just dropped, a fully renovated Mallorca triplex with a pool tucked into its own level, and a Puglian villa that comes with its own trullo. All under €2,000,000, spread across four different corners of Europe.
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A Golden Mile Villa in Marbella with Its Own Private Lift
€1,980,000 — Rio Real, Marbella, Málaga, Spain. This four-bedroom villa on Marbella's Golden Mile comes with something most listings on this list can't claim: a private lift connecting its multiple levels. At 419 square meters with panoramic Mediterranean views, the terrace above is exactly where the afternoons will go.
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A Restored Stone Farmhouse in the Hills Above Gaiole in Chianti
€1,160,000 — Gaiole in Chianti, Siena, Tuscany, Italy. There's a version of Tuscany that only shows up in hilltop hamlets like this one, and this restored stone farmhouse sits squarely in it — three bedrooms, four bathrooms, 260 square meters, with a pool that shares its aerial view with a medieval stone village in the distance.
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A Just-Reduced Algarve Home in Loulé's São Clemente Parish
€870,000 — São Clemente, Loulé, Algarve, Portugal. Now down from €895,000, this three-bedroom (T3) home spans 199 square meters across three bathrooms. Idealista notes the listing photos were shot by a professional with no filters or edits applied — worth mentioning when the pool shot above already does most of the talking.
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A Fully Reformed Triplex Townhouse in Port de Pollença, Mallorca
€1,600,000 — Port de Pollença, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain. This five-bedroom, four-bathroom triplex was fully reformed in 2025, with 234 square meters spread across levels that give the private pool its own separate terrace away from the living space. The hillside setting is doing a lot of the work in that hero shot.
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A Traditional Trullo-Style Villa on Olive Land in Ostuni, Puglia
€1,150,000 — Contrada Lamacoppa, Ostuni, Brindisi, Puglia, Italy. Set on nearly a hectare of olive grove, this three-bedroom, four-bathroom stone villa comes with its own trullo — the traditional conical-roofed structure Puglia is known for — and a 40-square-meter pool that photographs best at twilight, which is exactly the shot leading this section.
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