A sprawling Hudson Valley estate with sweeping Catskill Mountain views, a contemporary farmhouse, private guest accommodations and a full suite of equestrian amenities is coming to market in Ghent, New York, for $21 million.
At 135 acres, the property is not merely the most expensive home currently offered in the small Columbia County town—it sits in a completely different pricing category from the rest of Ghent’s residential inventory. The next-highest-priced listing in town is a 4.5-acre property asking $1.75 million, according to market information reported by Mansion Global.
The estate is also expected to rank among the most expensive offerings in Columbia County, where a 2,150-acre property is asking $90 million and a nearly 2,000-acre undeveloped parcel is listed at $36 million.
For buyers accustomed to evaluating luxury real estate by square footage alone, this Hudson Valley property makes a different argument. Its appeal rests on the combination of land, mountain views, modern architecture, privacy and recreational infrastructure—all within reach of Hudson and the Berkshires.
A Contemporary Farmhouse Designed Around the Landscape
The centerpiece of the estate is a contemporary-style farmhouse measuring approximately 5,200 square feet. Built in 2020 for the current seller, the single-level residence was designed to make the surrounding landscape part of the living experience rather than treating the acreage as an afterthought.
That philosophy is immediately apparent in the home’s great room. A vaulted ceiling rises above an open-plan interior, while a stone fireplace provides a grounding architectural element. Walls of glass frame views toward the Catskill Mountains, bringing the changing Hudson Valley landscape into the heart of the residence.
“The architecture was designed around the land and the views rather than imposed upon them,” Jonathan Stein, co-listing agent with Douglas Elliman, said. “The result feels highly considered, but also remarkably comfortable and livable for a residence of this scale.”
The layout is equally geared toward relaxed country living. The great room incorporates a family room, dining area and kitchen, allowing the main social spaces to function as one continuous environment. Five bedrooms are contained within the primary residence, including two primary suites, while each of the additional bedrooms has its own en-suite bathroom.
Rather than pursuing the oversized, formal-room approach often associated with trophy estates, the property takes a more contemporary interpretation of country-house living. The architecture is expansive without feeling disconnected from its surroundings, and the single-story configuration keeps daily life relatively effortless despite the property’s extraordinary scale.
For californialuxuryhouses, that distinction is particularly noteworthy. The estate demonstrates how today’s luxury buyer can seek privacy and acreage without necessarily sacrificing modern architecture or a strong connection to the landscape.
A Private Compound With a Log Cabin, Pool and Equestrian Facilities
The main residence is only part of the offering.
A separate log cabin serves as a guest house with two additional bedrooms, creating a more informal retreat for visiting family and friends. A carriage house adds another apartment that could function as staff quarters, guest accommodation, an office or a private studio.
The arrangement gives the property something increasingly valuable in the luxury market: separation.
“The guest accommodations are close enough to feel connected, but far enough away that everyone has real privacy,” said co-listing agent Nikki Carchedi of Stone House Properties.
That idea of privacy extends throughout the 135-acre grounds.
For summer afternoons, the estate offers both an infinity-edge swimming pool and a separate swimming pond. A gym provides an indoor wellness component, while the property’s barn and riding arena transform the estate into a genuine equestrian retreat rather than simply a country residence with a few acres attached.
Trails for horseback riding and hiking further extend the usable landscape. With 135 acres at the owners’ disposal, the grounds offer enough room for recreational pursuits without immediately feeling engineered or overly manicured.
The result is closer to a private Hudson Valley compound than a conventional luxury home.
Ghent Offers Rural Privacy Without Complete Isolation
The location is central to the property’s proposition.
Ghent is a rural town in Columbia County with a population of roughly 5,200. The town was formally incorporated in 1818 and has agricultural roots that remain visible in its farms and countryside today. Its name comes from Ghent in Flanders, Belgium.
That agricultural identity helps explain why a property of this scale can exist here. Ghent retains a low-density character that is difficult to replicate closer to New York City’s more heavily developed suburban markets.
At the same time, the estate is not positioned in total isolation.
According to the listing information, Hudson and Great Barrington, Massachusetts, are each roughly 25 minutes away.
Hudson provides one of the region’s strongest cultural and lifestyle hubs, with a downtown known for shops, galleries and restaurants. Its Amtrak station, housed in a depot originally built for the New York Central in 1874, offers service including the Empire Service, Ethan Allen Express, Maple Leaf and seasonal Berkshire Flyer. The station recorded 274,495 riders in fiscal 2025.
For a luxury buyer using the estate as a weekend or seasonal retreat, that rail connection adds an important layer of accessibility.
Closer to home, Ghent’s agricultural character translates directly into its food culture. Hawthorne Valley Farm, for example, operates an organic and natural-food farm store with a bakery, deli and locally produced groceries. Love Apple Farm, established in 1969, remains part of the area’s working agricultural landscape.
Dining options have also become part of the broader Hudson Valley lifestyle. Ten Barn Farm in Ghent operates a seasonal farm restaurant in a historic barn, serving farm-to-table meals and brunches centered on ingredients grown on or near the property.
For more extensive dining, shopping and cultural experiences, Hudson and Great Barrington expand the radius considerably. Eater’s 2026 Hudson Valley dining guide describes the region as deeply associated with farm-to-table cooking while noting the growing variety of restaurants and food destinations throughout the valley.
In other words, the location offers the combination many affluent buyers seek from a country estate: genuine seclusion at home, with sophisticated amenities and cultural destinations within a manageable drive.
The $21 Million Estate Is an Outlier in the Local Market
The pricing tells perhaps the clearest story.
At $21 million, the Ghent estate is more than $19 million above the town’s next-highest-priced listing, according to the market snapshot accompanying its launch. That makes it not simply the most expensive house in Ghent, but a dramatic outlier in the local residential market.
Within Columbia County, however, the property enters a broader luxury landscape. The $90 million, 2,150-acre offering currently sits at the top of the county’s listing hierarchy, while a nearly 2,000-acre parcel without a residence is asking $36 million. The $21 million Ghent estate therefore ranks third among the county’s most expensive offerings when it reaches the market.
The comparison is useful because it highlights what the asking price represents. This is not a $21 million home because of its 5,200 square feet alone. The value proposition is the land and everything built into it: the mountain outlook, the guest structures, pool, swimming pond, gym, barn, riding arena and network of trails.
It is also a relatively young property.
Records indicate that the contemporary farmhouse was built in 2020 for the current seller. The seller’s identity has not been publicly established in the reporting available on the property because ownership is held through an LLC, and there is no verified indication of a celebrity or other notable public figure behind the entity.
That absence of a public identity actually reinforces the estate’s central appeal: privacy.
Carchedi emphasized the scarcity of finding all of the property’s major attributes together.
“You can find great houses, incredible views or significant acreage in the Hudson Valley,” she said. “Finding all three together, with this level of amenities, 25 minutes from both Hudson and Great Barrington, is incredibly rare.”
That scarcity is likely to be the principal selling point as the estate enters the market.
For the prospective buyer, the property offers a lifestyle that is increasingly difficult to assemble from separate pieces: a modern residence with substantial architectural presence, a second guest house, additional quarters, equestrian infrastructure, water amenities and enough land to create genuine privacy.
It is a very different form of luxury from a penthouse in Manhattan or a glass-walled estate in Los Angeles. Here, the luxury is measured in distance from the next house, uninterrupted views of the Catskills, room for horses and trails that disappear into the landscape.
And that may be precisely why a $21 million asking price can command attention in a town where the next-most-expensive listing is asking only a fraction of that amount.
For buyers searching the Hudson Valley for a private retreat that combines contemporary design with serious acreage, this 135-acre Ghent estate is less a traditional country house than a fully realized private compound—one designed to make the landscape itself the defining amenity.