Estates

Villas, architecture, and private retreats

A long infinity pool on a stone-paved terrace running out towards open sea, with a row of grey sun loungers under woven reed parasols along one side and dry-stone walls behind

Verina Astra, the house at the end of the Poulati road

The way out to Poulati is a dirt road, and the house sits at the end of it: rooms, restaurant and spa scattered down a cliff on separate levels, each of the 16 keys named after a constellation.

Three whitewashed buildings standing around a long rectangular pool, with sun loungers and an umbrella on grey stone paving and a bare brown hillside rising behind

Verina Villa, let whole on the sand at Vathi

An aerial view over Xinara House: walled gardens, olive trees and terraced vegetable plots below a granite outcrop, with the village's blue-domed church and bell tower to the right

The bishop’s house at Xinara, brought back by the marble workers of Tinos

A shaded stone terrace opening onto a small infinity pool, with dry-stone walls, an outdoor shower and open blue sea beyond, a low rocky islet on the horizon

Luura Cliff hangs work by 55 artists above Agia Eirini Bay

1 September 2026

Cubic whitewashed buildings with flat roofs stepping down a hillside toward the sea, divided by whitewashed rubble walls with blue and red timber gates, a headland and small islets on the horizon

Four Seasons Mykonos is laid out like a village above Kalo Livadi

A rendering of a pale stone pavilion with a wide arched opening and a low pitched roof, standing above a cobbled court with a circular fountain, umbrella pines and cypresses framing a view across still water to the low fortress islet of Spinalonga

Rosewood Blue Palace, planned for Elounda in 2027

The shared pool of the EÉSO enclave at dusk, with timber-clad pavilions under flat canopies set into the water on either side and a lit bar at the far end.

EstatesHeraklion

Inside EÉSO by NEMA, an inward-facing enclave on Crete

A whitewashed cubic building above deep blue sea, with a private plunge pool and loungers on the terrace below it, palm fronds at the left and a settled shoreline across the water

Omeon Mykonos: 38 rooms and suites above Agios Stefanos

An aerial view of a low stone-coloured resort spread across a green peninsula, rows of suites with small private pools stepping toward the water, and a curved cove of pale sand and clear turquoise sea below

AMOH Rhodes: a resort between two coves and a limestone quarry

Aerial view of a resort of low whitewashed cubic buildings stepping down a dry rocky hillside in tiers, with planted roof terraces, small private pools and a long curved swimming pool lined with loungers at its centre

EstatesSantorini

Sandblu Santorini: an existing Kamari hotel under the LXR name

A wide Milos bay seen from a hillside, pale scrub-covered headlands running down to turquoise shallows, with white houses scattered across the far shore under a clear sky

Eréma Milos: 41 suites on Cape Chalaka, each with its own pool

Architectural rendering of a low resort scattered among pines and cypresses on a wooded headland at Porto Heli, a stone breakwater curving out from the shore to enclose a shallow turquoise lagoon, with hazy hills running away along the coast beyond

EstatesPorto Heli

Waldorf Astoria Scarlet Bay, planned for Porto Heli in 2029

A curved pool with timber shade frames and daybeds on a gravel terrace, sand-coloured buildings stepping up a planted hillside to the right and open sea beyond

Tella Thera: 20 suites set into a Kissamos hillside

Tella Thera opened above Kissamos Bay on 14 July 2025, with 20 suites and a villa set partly underground in an olive grove of 15,000 square metres, under planted roofs

A sandy cove seen from the hillside above, rows of woven dome cabanas and thatched parasols set back from the water, a three-masted schooner anchored offshore in calm blue sea

Myconian Sunrise brought the Daktylides family one cove west of Elia

The Daktylides family reopened Myconian Sunrise for the 2025 season as their 14th hotel on Mykonos, with interiors by Galal Mahmoud in the style of the 1970s, the decade they began

Whitewashed cubic buildings stepping down a hillside in tiers above a blue bay, dry-stone terrace walls and olive trees between them, sun loungers and a pool on the lowest terrace

Kalesma Mykonos grew above Ornos Bay in 2025

Aerial view of long low buildings with planted roofs and rows of small pools stepping across a scrub-covered rocky headland, with two speedboats crossing the turquoise water below

JW Marriott Crete sets 160 rooms on more than 100 acres

Aerial view at dusk of low white buildings arranged around a lit shallow reflecting pool, with a beach, a lagoon and the town of Naxos beyond

Laguna Coast Naxos: 21 suites and villas in a wetland estate

The cliffside villas of One&Only Kéa Island stepping down a scrub-covered headland to a turquoise bay with a jetty, a pale beach and rows of parasols

One&Only Kéa Island’s four-bedroom house above Vroskopos Bay

An aerial view of a pine-covered headland running into blue sea, with a marina of moored yachts along its quays, a low white hotel among the trees above the shore, and the coast and hills of Athens behind

EstatesAthens Riviera

The Astir peninsula at Vouliagmeni passed to one owner

An aerial view at sunset of white cubic buildings and a curved pool stepping down a green hillside above the sea, with a low sun on the water

Inside Stamna Sifnos, a house built from its own island

A rooftop terrace with pale sofas and a black-pebble fire bed above the Santorini caldera, the sun setting over the volcanic islets and the open water beyond

EstatesSantorini

A black-basalt house above the Imerovigli caldera

27 January 2025