Harbor Island: Love at First Sight (0)

December 9, 2011 • Category: Islands for Sale, Uncategorized

Located at the entrance to Bucks Harbor, this 25±-acre heart-shaped island offers privacy in an interesting, vibrant location. It provides a quiet retreat only yards from the mainland, together with a premium location for enjoying the harbor’s yacht traffic and wildlife.
A deepwater dock and float are located on the harbor side, tucked into the island’s [...]

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Celebrity Owned Private Islands (1)

Although island ownership isn’t limited to the rich and famous, they tend to garner the most attention.  AOL recently released a peak at some of the most famous celebrity islands noting thatfor some celebrities fast cars, multi-million dallar houses, and holiday homes aren’t quite enough. According to AOL the newest A-list statement is the purchase [...]

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In Cambodia Luxury Means Private Islands (0)

Developing a private island isn’t easy, especially in Cambodia, but when done successfully it’s akin to recreating the Garden of Eden. With Cambodias tourism industry rapidly expanding, and higher end tourists taking notice of the country an increasing number of luxury boutique resorts are sprouting up. CNN.com recently geature Rory and Melita Hunter who have [...]

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Italians Indulging in Private Islands (0)

Italy is famous for it’s beautiful beaches, and every summer Italians flee the hot and crowded cities for the cool breezes of the coast. According to the Independent, Italians are taking their beach obsession to a whole new level with more of the countries super rich investing in private islands. .
According to the paper last [...]

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Crystal River Island (0)

You really can’t go wrong purchasing an island in Florida. It’s advantageous purchasing laws, combined with its beautiful climate and access to infrastructure makes Florida consistently one of the most popular places to purchase and island. One of the newest islands on the market is Crystal River Island.
The island which is located on Greenleaf Bay [...]

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Floating Island Pool (0)

On islands like Manhattan space comes at a premium and often large recreational centres like public swimming pools are the first things to be sacrificed. However if everything goes “swimmingly” Manhattan could soon become home to one of the worlds first floating swimming pools. Part swimming pool, part man made island, this floating pool concept [...]

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Maldives Getting Tough On Climate Change (0)

The Maldives is getting tough on climate change with the government recently announcing a new plan to fund its climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts with a $3 per day tax on all tourists coming to the low-lying Indian Ocean nation’s island resorts.
 In 2008 some 683,000 people visited the Maldives as tourists, which is nearly double [...]