The East Neuk food scene has gone from strength to strength over the past few years.

Mark Holden always had a passion for art and photography, but over the past 16 years he has developed his talent to include painting. We are very lucky to have five of his paintings hanging at Phoenix House.

The second house recently added to the Elie Select portfolio is Sand House, a gorgeous Elie beach villa, mixing stunning views, traditional architecture and an architect-designed extension leading on to a true secret garden at the rear – the stuff of dreams.

We are delighted to add Phoenix House to our portfolio. It’s a five bedroom, five bathroom main door apartment in the very heart of the village, right next door to The Elie Deli.

Over the summer, the land in front of West House has been made into an Ibiza-esque Sea Garden.

At West House, the Old Laundry, once a derelict outbuilding, has been converted and beautifully restored by Nicky over the last six months.

All at Elie Select would like to congratulate Patrick Reed on winning his first major and an iconic green jacket at The Masters at Augusta.

Most of the houses are booked for summer ’18 but our new house, Davaar, still has a week in July and three weeks in August available.

West House appeared this month in The Herald newspaper’s article ‘The 25 most fabulously fashionable places to be seen in Scotland’, which we are delighted about.

A big black column of smoke rising from a small village will always cause local concern and alarm. Most people seeing that column of smoke will know the village and will instantly wonder and worry where it is coming from.