Today’s five European pool homes span five different countries for the first time in this newsletter’s run — Greece, France, Spain, Italy, and Portugal — with prices running from €950,000 up to €2,000,000.
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A Hillside Pool Villa Above Heraklion
€950,000 — Heraklion, Crete, Greece. A three-bedroom, two-bath villa on Greece’s largest island, its 240 square meters of living space arranged around the pool pictured above, with the Cretan hills as backdrop.
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A New-Build Pool Retreat in Almería
€950,000 — Vera, Almería, Spain. Tied for the lowest price in today’s lineup, this newly built four-bedroom, three-bath home on Spain’s Costa de Almería packs 263 square meters behind a private pool that’s never had another owner.
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A Vermilion Coast Home With Room to Grow
€1,000,000 — Collioure, Pyrénées-Orientales, France. First stop in France for this newsletter: a three-bedroom home near the Spanish border on the Vermilion Coast, 185 square meters of living space set on a 305-square-meter plot built around the pool.
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Seafront Simplicity in Sicily
€1,000,000 — Noto, Syracuse, Sicily, Italy. Steps from the water on Sicily’s southeastern coast, this seafront three-bedroom, three-bath home trades square footage — just 150 square meters — for a setting none of today’s other four can match.
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A Modern Showpiece on the Lisbon Coast
€2,000,000 — Paço de Arcos, Oeiras, Portugal. The priciest home in today’s five closes things out on the Lisbon coast: a four-bedroom, three-bath house built in 2018, 280 square meters of interior space on a 642-square-meter plot, with the pool as the obvious centerpiece.
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