After feeding him three times a day at their beachfront villa they said they 'had no option but to bring him home'.

Chill out in your beachfront villa with a private plunge pool.

The cost of a beachfront villa ranges from 250,000 to more than 3m.

The hotel's hideaway beachfront villas, each with private plunge pool, have the most cachet - but for guests lodging in the main complex, here's a tip.

The first phase of eight beachfront villas, priced from $16 million (8 million) for 9,500 sq ft, has sold out.

Players compete to build the villa highest using columns from lower floors without collapsing the structure.

He describes himself as ambitious, and admits that he built the villa solely as an investment project.

My parents had been going since the 1960s and built a villa there.

They built a villa on it, which they used as a holiday home.

It needs substantial work but it offers the opportunity to restore a regency building to its original use as a single, grand villa.

Zoning in 1853 anticipated residential development, although only one grand villa existed at the time.

Meanwhile, five-bedroom grand villas with large gardens in the city centre will set you back 3 million.

Grand villas there go for more than 1m.

Its grand villas are being restored, its beaches are pristine - and you can buy a two-bedder within walking distance of the sea for about €200,000.

We headed back to a private villa for the aftershow party.

Following a row with fellow diners she has now been banished to a private villa on the island.

It's sensational - a private villa teetering on stilts above the author's favourite coral-tipped cove.

He has splashed out 20,000 renting a luxurious private villa in the grounds of one of the island's most exclusive hotels.

The couple have spent a week at a plush private villa and appear to have put their troubles behind them.