Want To Buy Your Own Private Island?
Recently, we heard about our very own international Hollywood star, Datuk Michelle Yeoh, bought her own private island in Terengganu. It seems that owning your own island, whether with a nice, cosy mansion or undeveloped tropical paradise, is the ultimate sign of affluency among the super-rich. Marlon Brando owned his own French Polynesian atoll called Tetiaroa, Johnny Depp had a small piece on the Bahamas. I once watched an episode of Cribs of MTV where Richard Branson showed his island somewhere in the South Pacific.
So, how much will an island in one of the top holiday spots in the world set you back? According to Fortune magazine (Oct. 24, No, 18), here are some prime examples:
Magic Island, Bora Bora
Price: USD$18 million (RM67 million)
For a little under the cost of a small Hollywood movie, you get TWO islands 10 minutes away from the Bora Bora airport. The larger island has a working cistern system and solar power as well as 3 small but luxurious cottages built from tropical hardwood. The smaller island is undeveloped. At low tide, you can wade across the shallow reef.
Saratoga Island, New York
Price: USD$1.9 million (RM7 million)
If you want to own your personal island but yet want to live in New York, this is it. It’s 36 acres right in the middle of the Hudson River. Comes with private airstrip, a rustic log cabin and plenty of fishing.
Trapp’s Caye, Belize
Price: USD$2.9 million (RM10.8 million)
This one is completely undeveloped, perfect if you like to rough it out Survivor-style. It’s covered with coconut trees and surrounded by corals. Nearby is a marine park that offers one of the only places in the world where you can swim with sharks.
Peter Island, Nova Scotia
Price: USD$225,000 (RM837,000)
2.5 acres of pine and fir trees, a beautiful 2 bedroom and 1 bathroom, a working solar energy system, and a small motorboat to transport you to the mainland. Surprisingly enough, this looks like the bargain of the lot!
Guanaja Rock, Honduras
Price: USD$1.7 million (RM6.3 million)
This Caribbean hideaway is a eco-haven – there is a coral reef frequented by grouper, moray eels, and the occasional hammerhead sharks. There’s a five bedroom, five bath villa built directly on the rock face.
Ile Chantesmesle, France
Price: USD$3.9 million (RM14.5 million)
In Paris, USD$3million will ‘barely buy you something you can be proud to show your mother-in-law”. Comes with 2 Victorian mansions. Cheap, no?
Tessera Island, Venice
Price: USD$4.5 million (RM16.7 million)
Set in the Venetian lagoon, this last one has a magnificent palazzo surrounded by groves of fruit trees and a vineyard capable of producing about 500 bottles of your own private-label wine. House comes with a boathouse and water taxi. Unfortunately, lagoon water is quite fetid.
Want To Buy Your Own Private Island?
This a pretty interesting post about how much it would actually cost to buy yourself an Island. It’s most people’s fantasy to own their own private paradise I guess.
Trackback by SpyMy.com — January 17, 2006 @ 12:08 pm
Having an island of your own means there are no rules on the island ? Does that suppose to mean im the ownself government ? Im wondering that. if i bought an island in New York and im Malaysian. Do i need PR visa to stay on the island. Gosh…having an island is damn fun
Comment by kcyap — January 17, 2006 @ 12:46 pm
for datuk michelle yeoh, she’ll have to follow the laws of malaysia, it is still under the federal constitution. to run your own country, the island would probably must be in international waters, i think.
But i’ll confirm this when i can afford one…
Comment by Administrator — January 17, 2006 @ 2:35 pm
wow…the cheapest also 7 million, not including “CHEONG-SAU”..
Comment by kenny lee — January 17, 2006 @ 6:21 pm
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ps
- Tessera Island, Venice Price: USD$4.5 million
Trackback by Anonymous — July 24, 2006 @ 7:04 pm