Spanish hunting mansion worth 3.7 million euros was destroyed by deer.

Once a lush property, one of no less than 40 country estates taken over by Spain's "bad bank" (Sareb), is rapidly deteriorating as Sareb struggles to find a buyer.

Former landowner Luis Gonzalez Chozas originally boasted of the nobility of horses on his 600-hectare Herb-of-Grace and Moor hunting estate, one of the region's best for boar and deer hunting. However, just two years after losing the property to a bank, wild sheep roam freely on the property and the deer population has more than quintupled.

It is one of 40 country estates taken by Sareb and one of 200,000 real estate-related assets worth 50.4 billion euros to be sold over 15 years to revive the economy.