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...Who Sotheby’s International Realty Villa, Port d’Andratx, Mallorca, Spain, €14mn Where In Port d’Andratx, a harbour town on the south-west coast of Mallorca popular with international yachting visitors...
...Who Luxury Portfolio International, LX Costa Rica House, Dolphin Coast, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, $2.025mn Where In the Zimbali Coastal Estate, on South Africa’s Dolphin Coast....
...For sale with Sotheby’s International Realty. Uvita, Puntarenas, $2.79mn A 10-acre estate on the southern Pacific coast, near the town of Uvita....
...Bénédicte Marchal, chief executive of Biarritz Sotheby’s International Realty, says prices have risen by as much as 15 per cent in the past year....
...Jordan Robins, executive vice president and COO of First Capital Realty Inc, which is involved in the retail development of East Bayside, is impressed by forward-looking developers who are willing to commit...
...When the wealthy Chilean bachelor Olegario Ovalle Vicuña inherited a swath of land around the pristine beach of Zapallar on Chile’s Pacific coast in 1884, he had a vision....
...The (mostly) retired people running it and helping to keep the coast safe even buy their own dapper uniforms....
...Michael Gardner, a local agent with Sotheby’s International Realty, says that business has picked up after an initial lull following the blaze....
...“When you get down here, it’s definitely a surf culture,” says condo owner Kevin Jones, a retired Florida businessman, who doesn’t surf. “There is a real bohemian vibe.”...
...Why The apartment is on the 66th floor, providing views up and down the Gold Coast. There are surf beaches just across the road....
...Less well recognised is that the state of São Paulo, which contains the megacity of the same name, has some of the world’s best coastline with jungle-covered hills running down to surf beaches....
...On Miro Avenue, a 15-minute drive from Google’s headquarters, Sotheby’s International Realty is listing a 1,637 sq ft, three-bedroom townhouse for a shade under $1.4m....
...Gold Coast international airport is an hour’s drive, while private aircraft can use Ballina airport, 15 minutes away....
...The lower prices in Ulster County are now attracting younger buyers priced out of the Hamptons or the Connecticut coast, says Sidoriak....
...The green-energy panic has led to some interesting pieces of wreckage floating on to the surf-pounded beach....
...“Demand is outpacing supply and that demand is driven to a large degree by LA becoming much more of an international community,” says Frank Symons, a vice-president at Sotheby’s International Realty....
...The Costa Concordia, which foundered off the coast of Tuscany in 2012 causing the death of 32 people, cost Carnival about $500m in operating profits relative to prior expectations....
...To paraphrase the old surf song, the Californian elite caught a wave and wound up standing on top of the world. But they allow people from other parts of the US to oversee the results....
...huge surf, then heads inland, up over the coastal ranges and into the Atacama Desert, the driest place on earth, a place of tumbleweed, cacti and long-abandoned mining ghost towns....
...Members of the Albert Battery shoot a volley of fire during the Anzac dawn service at Currumbin Surf Life Saving Club on Thursday in Gold Coast, Australia....
...are plans from 1963 to build a gigantic earth-filled “causeway” in the Pacific that would have linked Santa Monica with Malibu (and ruined the view of the ocean for coastal dwellers, not to mention the surf...
...The US company that owns the Vans, Wrangler and North Face brands has emerged as a suitor for Billabong International, raising the prospect of a bid battle for the struggling Australian surf and skate wear...
...The Gold Coast-based company said on Monday that Paul Naude would temporarily stand down from his duties to investigate the possibility of a leveraged buyout....
...Moon Dance, Sandy Lane, Barbados, $5.75m Where Across the road from the Sandy Lane Hotel, on the western coast of Barbados, about 40 minutes’ drive from Grantley Adams international airport....
...Who Barbara Cleary’s Realty Guild, www.realty-guild.com, tel: +1 203 966 7772 …………………………………………………………….....
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