You Wish: A stunning winter escape in Cape Schanck

14 The Cups Drive, Cape Schanck

$3.5 million-$3.8 million
5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2 car spaces

If you’re not already a keen golfer, you’d surely be tempted to polish up your putting to ensure this superlative location isn’t wasted on a hack. Set on a vast 4535-square-metre lot in the gentle hills that wrap around The National Golf Club, The Glass House gazes over not one, but three world-class, 18-hole championship courses from expansive decks and through curving, floor-to-ceiling glass.

Here, even the main bathroom – with a soaking tub – has million dollar views.

An upper-level glass pod houses the bedrooms and key living areas, where you’ll find a cool and classy island kitchen with Miele appliances servicing living and dining zones with oak floorboards and an integrated fireplace. The lower level plays host to a relaxed family room, a home cinema, a cellar and a study nook and leads out to the solar-heated swimming pool and bespoke barbecue kitchen with a fireside lounge to enjoy this enviable space in all seasons.

When you’re ready for a 19th hole intermission, head to the beaches of Sorrento and Portsea, which are 20-minutes’ drive to the north-west, or indulge yourself with top food, wine and art at the wineries, art galleries, spas and cafes of Red Hill, Shoreham and Flinders.

Kay & Burton‘s Paul Armstrong is fielding enquiries.

84 Yarra Boulevard, Richmond

Photo: Jellis Craig

$2.2 million-$2.42 million
4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 car spaces

There’s not a scrap of wasted space in this streamlined townhouse, which offers parkland views and easy access to riverside walking and biking trails. There are living areas on each of the three levels and the main bedroom offers peace and quiet on the ground floor. There are a further three bedrooms on level two. Jellis Craig‘s Jodie McCarthy will wrangle buyers at a July 29 auction.

5/380 Carlisle Street, St Kilda

Photo: Urban Angles

$950,000-$1,045,000
3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 3 car spaces

Raked ceilings give the living spaces an injection of space and light in this three-bedroom townhouse just a hop, skip and a jump from Carlisle Street’s lip-smacking array of cafes and restaurants. Throw in a sky-lit kitchen, a north-facing balcony, three bedrooms and two bathrooms for easy inner-city living. The property is up for auction on July 23 through Limor Herskovitz of Gary Peer.