Not the best climate, physically or economically to being selling property..look at this!

http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=N8uTZwGIgFk

OK, the weather here in Le Marche can swiftly change: the wind can swing to the south and we could be sunbathing again in a day or two.
But the economic climate? Sure. everybody is betting on Obama to be the economic Sirocco. Poor guy, such a responsibility.
If you ask my advice for 2009 in Real Estate?
I'd say try and go and live where you really feel like living, where you'd feel happiest...and plant lots of potatoes.

The Mystic Chestnut Forest

Haven't ever seen a chestnut wood like this in Le Marche, Used to have one close to where I lived in Tuscany. They are such magnificent trees: beautiful right now in winter and incredibly more so in full summer where they let only small shafts of light pass between them.
So, here you are...26 hectares of them (actually 23 with 3 hectares of arable land). A private entrance and road up to the house and complete seclusion...yet, yet, only ten minutes from Sarnano, that medieval town which never closes.











Oh and the House!
Not much to speak of is it?
Looks like a solid block of concrete.
But actually it's in every sense habitable inside and quite well finished too.
Needs an insulated roof but that's no big deal and the outside needs glamorising. But the whole place is really about the outside and I can imagine it with a gorgeous garden. A delight.




























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I personally really like this house. If it wasn't so big, I'd buy it. You can feel you are close to the sea, smell it even, let alone see it all around; the trees and the almost tropical flowers and plants. There are in fact very few of such properties
avaiable in this (now)quite exclusive area. Most have been done up and brought to an almost Tuscan level of poshness sad to say. Now if it were mine, I'd simple redo the interior. 'That's a bit French isn't it?' you would no doubt say. To which I would reply 'Yes' or 'Mai oui', according to my mood.
Then I would throw all the rest of my energy at the garden, organise a sophisticated irrigation system and turn the surrounds into a little paradise; the sort of thing you can do in a micro-climate such as this


But alas, alack, la vie n'est pas toujours facile and I have to put up with seeing these places and just wishing. The lament of a property consultant indeed.
Seriously though (although in fact I am being quite serious) this is a quite special place and a prime example of coastal real estate in Le Marche



The property is near Recanati, home of our famous poet Leopardi.
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