X Factor villas...

Whilst the UK seems to drag to a halt for what is probably far too many people than is healthy (watching X Factor finals and Strictly and all the rest), so the national grid powers up for all those TV sets and commercial break cups of tea whilst everyone bemoans/celebrates the various winners and losers.

So the idea came to me, why not blog about the QV 'X' Factor villas for 2011?

By this, I don't mean trawling through the 350 villas on our books but some of the newcomers that have gone onto our site in the past few months. There have been some great ones, coastal property in Morocco, stunning villas in St Tropez and various family villas across rural France.

My top 5 then (you will need to click each link to see the detail):

5: Villa St Hilaire (a coastal property in the Vendee)

4: Beaute Marine (check out the seaviews from this St Tropez villa !)

3: Les Pierres Tuffeau (very nice Loire farmhouse restoration )

2: L'Ancienne Abbaye (country house near Poitiers)

...But the winner for me (cue drum roll...) and please remember this is based entirely on my own tastes, so apologies to all the other new villas that made it onto our books of recent:

Villa Natalya
I won't even give any clues as to what this one is about, if you decide to have a look, I hope you will see the appeal! I can't remember if it was the champagne reception, the sauna, the cinema room, the beachfront location or the speedboat that is thrown in with the rental for 2 days that does it for me... Click here.