Tim McGraw and Faith Hill appear to be ready to say goodbye to their own private island in the Bahamas after spending the last 17 years turning the property into their dream vacation home.
The private island owned by the country stars, known as L’île d’Anges or Goat Cay, was recently listed for sale with an asking price of $35 million, as first reported by New York Post. The couple revealed in a 2017 cover story for Architectural Digest that they originally purchased the nearly 20-acre property with almost 1.3 miles of water frontage in 2003, but weren’t able to officially move in until 2012. Hill told the publication at the time that the property turned out to be a little bit more than they originally bargained for. “We set out to build a house,” Hill explained. “We had no idea we had to build everything else. We basically had to build a little town.” Building that little town meant that the musicians had to take on the cost of building their home in addition to staff housing and the infrastructure needed for construction crews, water, and electricity. “You don’t quite put all that together at first,” McGraw added.
The 6,517-square-foot main property located at the high point on the center of the island boasts four bedrooms, five bathrooms, an observation tower, and a grass-covered internal courtyard spread across eight separate “pavilions” all connected by almost 5,000-square-feet of outdoor passageways and covered verandas. But while the home may now be the lap of luxury, that wasn’t always the case. Hill told AD that while it was being built the whole family would sleep in yurts on the beach. “It was like camping. The kids loved it,” she said. Those yurts are now a part of the property’s listing and are being marketed as “excellent high quality, beach front accommodation for guests who want to fall asleep to the sound of gently lapping waves.”
A representative for McGraw and Hill was not immediately available for comment.
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