{"id":117936,"date":"2020-07-24T05:00:02","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T22:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/this-gargantuan-us16-million-canadian-farmhouse-is-last-hurrah-for-a-wild-real-estate-bonanza-fuelled-by-chinese-money\/"},"modified":"2020-07-24T07:05:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T00:05:43","slug":"this-gargantuan-us16-million-canadian-farmhouse-is-last-hurrah-for-a-wild-real-estate-bonanza-fuelled-by-chinese-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/this-gargantuan-us16-million-canadian-farmhouse-is-last-hurrah-for-a-wild-real-estate-bonanza-fuelled-by-chinese-money\/","title":{"rendered":"This gargantuan US$16 million Canadian \u2018farmhouse\u2019 is last hurrah for a wild real estate bonanza, fuelled by Chinese money"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nDrive past the turkey farm. Keep going, past the hand-painted signs advertising fresh eggs and \u201cu-pick\u201d berries.Go far enough down No 6 Road in Richmond, British Columbia, and you can\u2019t miss the house \u2013 although if you reach the topsoil business you\u2019ve gone too far.\u201cHouse\u201d doesn\u2019t do justice to the gargantuan edifice that rises from the blueberry fields at number 9431 like a colonnaded mirage. Technically, it is a farmhouse, albeit one measuring 22,317 sq ft, with a chandelier the size of a\u2026
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\nSource : South China Morning Post
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