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How to turn $1.44m into a $32m lakeside castle

How to turn $1.44m into a $32m lakeside castle

What began as a pipe dream for French architecture nut Aaron Parkhill is now a lakeside chateau on Victoria’s Bellarine Peninsula – and could be yours for $32 million.

Bonnie CampbellLuxury property reporter

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Oowner of Campbell Point House Aaron Parkhill says the unlikely catalyst for constructing his grand lakeside chateau on Victoria’s Bellarine Peninsula was a scene from the 1998 film, Meet Joe Black.

In the movie, Death (played by Brad Pitt) and media mogul Bill Parrish (Anthony Hopkins) sit side-by-side in a chopper flying across a lake, about to descend on Parrish’s lakeside estate for a party.

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Bonnie CampbellLuxury property reporterBonnie Campbell is the luxury property reporter at The Australian Financial Review Email Bonnie at bonnie.campbell@afr.com

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