Property Of The Week: 68 Mount Gravatt Road, Upper Mount Gravatt, QLD

Boasting commanding views of Upper Mount Gravatt and Dittmer Park comes this gloriously appointed tri-level property.

The 3-bedroom, 2-bathroom, 2-car parking home sees elegant timber and carpeted floors paired with lofty ceiling heights and a crisp, white palette adding an acute contemporary feel to the home.

The upper-most level sees the spacious open-plan living and dining area, with a small break housing the kitchen, complete with breakfast bar, AEG appliances and plenty of storage options.

Here, the adjoining expansive terrace arrives with a built-in barbecue and vast amounts of space for hosting guests and enjoying those panoramic views.

Downstairs on the middle level comes the bedrooms. Here, the master comes with a walk-through robe, balcony access and a tidy ensuite. Also here are two additional bedrooms complete with balcony access and built-in robes.

On the lowest level is a self-contained ‘granny flat’ on ground level with separate access, bathroom facilities and a private balcony.

Further, the home sees a low-maintenance grassed rear year with established gardens and shed alongside a secure dual garage and functional workshop area.

The home is mere minutes from Mount Gravatt Plaza and Griffith University’s Nathan campus.

The listing is with Place Property’s Ban Salm, offers around $1,100,000; eplace.com

Idaho is not a place that’s often associated with Medieval castles, but a pair have just hit the market for $6.25 million.

The imposing stone structures have towers, turrets, ramparts, arrow-slit windows and even a drawbridge, and might just be the most authentic-looking castles this side of the Atlantic.

“Who expects to see a castle like this in Idaho?” said listing agent Brenda Burk of Coldwell Banker Schneidmiller Realty, who brought the property to the market last week. They are, she said, “extremely unusual.”

Schweitzer Castle and Château de Melusine, as they’re known, stand within Schweitzer Mountain Resort in the Selkirk Mountains and overlook the nearby mountain resort town of Sandpoint. They take in panoramic views of Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho’s largest lake.

The pair of ski-in/ski-out homes each have three bedrooms, two bathrooms and three stories, Burk explained. They are “so authentic,” she said. “Every single stone was handlaid.”

Schweitzer Castle, she said, wasn’t built for “functionality,” but has been modernized and adapted and now has everything a 21st-century residence requires, along with a dungeon, which for some buyers may also be a requisite.

The chateau, meanwhile, has a hot tub room with mountain views, as well as a garage.

The property is being sold furnished, and will come complete with the hand-carved statues, armor, mounted swords, stained-glass windows and a host of antiques dating to the 15th and 16th centuries.

The owner, an antique collector who couldn’t be reached for comment, “is always looking for that hidden jewel and he found that here,” Burk said.

The next custodian is likely to stem from a varied pool of buyers, Burk said, that would include “the trophy-home buyer, someone who can say ‘I own a castle.’”

The property could also appeal to someone looking for a vacation home, or a multi-generational estate, and beyond that “there’s the dreamers,” she said. “We definitely try to market to people who like Medieval history or maybe do Renaissance fairs.”

The seller “really wants it to go to someone with the same passion.”

Property Of The Week: 68 Mount Gravatt Road, Upper Mount Gravatt, QLD

Contemporary tri-level living in a picturesque location.

The imposing stone structures, with towers, turrets and a hot tub room, lord over the landscape near the mountain resort town of Sandpoint.