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The owner of Islay House, built in 1677 for the Thane of Cawdor on the Hebridean island of Islay, has cut $1 million from his asking price, The Scotsman reports. Islay House with 24 bedrooms, a ballroom and 28 acres of grounds has spectacular views -- a whole village was leveled when it was built to ensure that -- and a history that is supposed to include a meeting of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's war cabinet.

But the owner, Tom Friedrich, has dropped the price from 2.25 million pounds ($4.5 million) to 1.75 million pounds ($3.5 million), The Scotsman reported.

Jamie Macnab, director of country houses in the Edinburgh office of the British real estate firm Savills, said houses at the top of the scale are still selling at top prices. That means houses valued at $10 million and up.

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