{"id":30243,"date":"2010-10-31T08:23:02","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T08:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/billionaires-scooping-up-private-islands\/"},"modified":"2010-10-31T08:23:02","modified_gmt":"2010-10-31T08:23:02","slug":"billionaires-scooping-up-private-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/islands\/billionaires-scooping-up-private-islands.php","title":{"rendered":"Billionaires Scooping up Private Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3001\" href=\"http:\/\/www.privateislandsblog.com\/2010\/10\/25\/billionaires-scooping-up-private-islands\/nsongaisland-1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3001\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/f5750_nsongaisland-1-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"nsongaisland-1\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>According to the Times of India, in addition luxury yachts, jets and homes, Indian billionaires have started purchasing Caribbean and South Pacific&nbsp;private islands.&nbsp;<\/p><p>The Times reports that&nbsp;although no one is disclosing&nbsp;the names of buyers yet,&nbsp;&nbsp; five deals are understood to have been struck from India in recent months. &ldquo;The trend we have observed is toward an increasing number of interested buyers coming from India. noted Chris Krolow CEO Of Private Islands Inc.,<\/p><div>Krolow also notes that &ldquo;After the recession, some properties have reduced dramatically, as prices were quite inflated before the recession,&rdquo; he added. For some islands, there was a reduction in prices of as much as 30-50%, and in some cases owners are willing to negotiate.<\/div><div>I think it&rsquo;s great the emerging markets are taking a keen interest in private islands. I am sure it will help keep the industry competitive for years to come!<\/div><div>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/Desi-billionaires-shop-for-Caribbean-islands\/articleshow\/6795827.cms#ixzz13Bhpx3oF\">Desi billionaires shop for Caribbean islands - The Times of India<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/Desi-billionaires-shop-for-Caribbean-islands\/articleshow\/6795827.cms#ixzz13Bhpx3oF\">http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/Desi-billionaires-shop-for-Caribbean-islands\/articleshow\/6795827.cms#ixzz13Bhpx3oF<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Times of India, in addition luxury yachts, jets and homes, Indian billionaires have started purchasing Caribbean and South Pacific&nbsp;private islands.&nbsp;The Times reports that&nbsp;although no one is disclosing&nbsp;the names of buyers yet,&nbsp;&nbsp; five deals are understood to have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/islands\/billionaires-scooping-up-private-islands.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islands"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}