Introducing 'Summerglen', Buderim’s finest home.

Nestled away on five acres and boasting dual street access, the intensely private home combines its impressive grandeur and classic stylings with a beautiful rainforest location.

The award-winning 6-bedroom, 6-bathroom, 10-car garage home designed by Brad Read Design Group brings together grace and elegance of a period home with soaring ceilings and swathes of glass, and combines it with contemporary ideas of luxury.

Through a formal gated entryway, the driveway leads one past the lagoon to the expansive two storey home. Here, one enters through the formal entry foyer and experiences the impressive volumes within the main living zones complemented by the high-end kitchen complete with integrated appliances and scullery.

It’s also here on the lower level that one finds the office, library, multiple formal and casual living rooms and home cinema and gym.

Further mod-cons within the house include state-of-the-art security and technology, underfloor heating, striking fireplace centrepiece in the formal dining room, a granite bar in the billiard room with an outlook to the garage.

Outside, the home features an award-winning swimming pool and spa paired with a full-sized tennis court set upon the expansive, manicured grass lawn. It’s in the backyard that the most lavish entertaining can take place with festoon lighting in the majestic fig tree and an alfresco dining area complete with a built-in BBQ.

Across the two levels and the poolside guest pavilion, Summerglen comprises of six bedrooms and six bathrooms plus a powder area. The master suite features a large dressing room and opulent ensuite to match.

Infrastructure on the property includes garaging for up to 10 vehicles, a 5,000-litre underground water tank, an automatic pop-up sprinkler system, an outdoor fountain with lighting, two garden sheds, ‘hidden’ dog fencing plus boundary fencing, entry bridge and electronic custom-built gated entry.

Beyond, the expansive grounds and grand residence, Summerglen is three minutes from the centre of Buderim, and is nearby to Mooloolaba Beach, Sunshine Coast Airport with Brisbane an hour away.

The listing is with Ray White Nambour’s Matt O’Grady (+61 414 317 375), POA. raywhitenambour.com.au

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is selling his Northern California estate, which was listed Monday for $24.5 million.

Located in Atherton, an extremely affluent town northwest of Palo Alto and about 30 miles south of San Francisco, the 3.36-acre property is made up of three parcels that Schmidt acquired over the years, according to public records and Compass, who has the listing.

Schmidt, 69, and his wife, businesswoman Wendy Schmidt, purchased the main home in 1990 for $2 million, according to public records accessed via PropertyShark. They remodelled the 1969 home in 2007, and at that time, bought a neighbouring parcel of land, allowing an expansion of the main house and the addition of a guest house, according to Compass, who holds the listing. A third parcel was later acquired, on which the Schmidts added an English garden house and landscaped grounds overlooking the Eastern Hills.

“Finding three contiguous parcels in Atherton is rare. Even rarer are those with views of the Eastern hills,” said listing agent Katharine Carroll of the reSolve Group at Compass. “The location of this residence is ultra private, at the back of a cul-de-sac with the main house built into a hillside that provides privacy and very good security.”

Across the estate, there are five bedrooms, five full bathrooms and six half bathrooms.

The 5,265-square-foot main house also offers a number of private outdoor spaces on its upper level, including a large terrace off the primary suite, another large terrace off a secondary bedroom, plus a third smaller terrace and two balconies.

Behind the main house is a patio with a pool and spa. For even more outdoor space, there’s an entertaining pavilion, an open lawn and an outdoor fireplace area near the guest quarters.

The grounds themselves are also a standout feature, with an array of mature plants and specimen trees. The upper portion of the property’s landscaping is designed around an Amdega-designed conservatory, which was imported from the U.K. Around the greenhouse, there is a garden of raised beds and fruit trees, Carroll said.

“From the moment you step onto the grounds, it feels as if you’ve been transported to a private botanical sanctuary,” she said.

Schmidt served as Google’s CEO from 2001 to 2011, and then became the company’s executive chairman until 2015. He could not be reached for comment.

This article first appeared on Mansion Global

Introducing ‘Summerglen’, Buderim’s finest home.

Just out of Mooloolaba, Queensland, comes this grand estate.