HouseMaldonado (Uruguay)

Price :

on request

bedrooms6 bathrooms4 land11 m²

El Ahora is a property of 11 hectares located in one of the most beautiful places in the entire world, the Sierras de Maldonado area of Uruguay. The property is in a rural area but at the same time is only 40 minutes by car from cosmopolitan Punta del Este. It has approximately 60 fruit trees between 5 and 10 years of age (orange, mandarin, grapefruit, pear, apple, plum, peach, fig, olive, avocado, etc.). It has a vegetable garden and a root-cellar. The main house has 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms (one in-suite with a sitting room and walk-in closet), an open living room, dining room & kitchen with breakfast bar, office nook and barbeque. Two German built wood burning stoves heat the house in winter. In the kitchen there are two stoves for food preparation, one gas and one utilizing wood. The master bedroom is all glass and provides spectacular views of the natural landscapes and animal life. Adjacent to the master bedroom is a Hot Springs spa. Terraces surround the house with ample space for dining and entertainment. In a magical place overlooking the stream that borders the property and is approximately 400 meters in length there is a guest house. The stream has a swimming hole and a small waterfall. The guest house is offered online and generates an income of approximately us$1,000 per month and has a rating of 9.7 out of 10 on Booking.com. Adjacent to the main house there is a cinema/playroom with wonderful views overlooking the pond and a large infinity edge swimming pool that has a beautiful hard wood deck surrounding it. This can also be used as another guest house as it has a bathroom and space for a kitchenette. Behind this structure is a covered area for parking up to three cars. The property also has a house for the caretaker with a living/kitchen area, two bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. It has a large barn stocked with all the basic tools and equipment needed to operate the property including a new John Deere tractor, air compressor, and freezers. Integrated into the barn is a laundry room and a room for butchering meat. Additionally, the property has a Solar cooled food storage area as well as a small maid quarters. It also has a craft/workshop structure currently being used for pottery. Construction totals over 500 square meters. The property has been strategically divided for animal husbandry into three main sections where the animals can be moved from one section to the other in order to optimize and preserve the land. Many upgrades and renovations have been performed over the last 3 years. The pool was renovated, and the deck replaced. The stoves are new as are many of the appliances. All the structures have been recently painted and are in excellent condition. The property is legally two different parcels. One of five hectares and the other of eleven hectares. All structures are located on the eleven hectare parcel. The five hectare parcel has a separate fence line, a road to the perfect spot to build a house and a separate entrance with a gate.