If you baby your car, the top thing on your “want” list when house shopping is probably a swanky garage for all your wheeled prized possessions.
If you have the means, your cars can live in a pristine, indoor and temperature-controlled environment with marble floors and lighting worthy of a movie set. Scroll through the gallery below of garages featured in luxury real estate listings around the world and prepared to either feel immense, jaw-dropping jealousy or a fire burning in your bank account.
Also read: Motor Mouth renovates his humble garage into the perfect man cave
A perfect space for your own personal car museum.
Handout, Sotheby's International Realty Canada
This seven-bedroom house in Saint-Mathieu-de-Beloeil, Quebec, above, features this beautiful garage, a worthy space for your own personal car museum. The house is going for $13.5-million. Car and motorcycle not included, unfortunately.
We think the owner of this garage likes black cars. Just a guess.
Handout, Mallorca Sotheby's International Realty
This three-bedroom villa home in Mallorca, Spain, is going for US$40.6-million. It has a massive sun deck and swimming pool along with an impressive ocean view, but we all know you want the garage, which the listing says can fit about 10 cars.
Gym space or indoor garage? You decide.
Handout, Côte d'Azur Sotheby's International Realty
I’m not sure if this is even a garage or not, but if you have enough cash to even be looking at this listing above in Provence-Alpes-Cote D’Azur, France, you can do whatever you want with this space. The wood on the floors seem perfectly sized for cars, any way. Unfortunately, the price for this property is available upon request, which means if you must ask, you might as well not bother. The property is also steps away from the beach, but we know you’d rather take the Bentley.
A boat garage that is connected right to the water. We can’t wait to see what the car garage looks like.
Handout, Lake Como Sotheby's International Realty
This stunning lakefront house in Como, Italy, has an impressive covered dock space for three boats, but no real details on a car garage are available other than it holds four cars. Nonetheless, this boat garage is connected to a private harbour and is quite grand, which leaves us imagining how much more amazing the car garage would be. The listing price is available upon request.
No luxury garage is complete without a turntable.
Handout, Côte d'Azur Sotheby's International Realty
The garage in this waterfront listing in a stunning area of Cote D’Azur, France, comes with a rotating turntable for easy access and no need to reverse park. The property also has an enormous pool, a striking contemporary exterior design and big home theater. This six-bedroom property is going for a cool $36.5-million.
Also, Jay Leno, who has arguably one of the best and most well-stocked garages in history, just got a turntable driveway installed. He has a lot of classic cars (with sensitive steering setups) and turning them around to drive through his garage’s narrow entrance has proven difficult in the past. Check it out below:
