{"id":36370,"date":"2011-06-19T15:49:27","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T15:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/why-settle-for-a-house-when-you-can-buy-an-island\/"},"modified":"2011-06-19T15:49:27","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T15:49:27","slug":"why-settle-for-a-house-when-you-can-buy-an-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/islands\/why-settle-for-a-house-when-you-can-buy-an-island.php","title":{"rendered":"Why Settle for a House When You Can Buy an Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3353\" href=\"http:\/\/www.privateislandsblog.com\/2011\/06\/13\/why-settle-for-a-house-when-you-can-buy-an-island\/australia_lakeland_island_sand_bar\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3353\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/a204e_australia_lakeland_island_sand_bar-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"australia_lakeland_island_sand_bar\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>The Brisbane Times recently published an interesting article about what is happening in there private islands market. The article notes that there are currently more than&nbsp;a dozen islands on the market in Australia right now.&nbsp; Here is what the article has to say.<\/p><div><div><p>Julia Roberts tried to get a slice of Queensland when she tried to buy Turtle Island, off Rockhampton, over a decade ago.&nbsp; She offered about $3 million then and missed out by a few hundred thousand.&nbsp; The island has just sold again for close to $5.5 million.<\/p><p>The article also discussings how one goes about selling an island in Australia, noting&hellip;<\/p><p>&ldquo;Private islands, despite their undeniable romantic appeal, are difficult to sell, and tend to remain on the market longer than other types of residential or recreational property&rdquo; according to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.privateislandsonline.com\/\"><span>Private Islands Online<\/span><\/a><\/strong> &ndash; a website dedicated to selling exotic islands.<\/p><\/div><p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brisbanetimes.com.au\/business\/property\/why-settle-for-a-house-when-you-can-buy-an-island-20110609-1fun1.html#ixzz1PAoKhS2s\">http:\/\/www.brisbanetimes.com.au\/business\/property\/why-settle-for-a-house-when-you-can-buy-an-island-20110609-1fun1.html#ixzz1PAoKhS2s<\/a><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brisbane Times recently published an interesting article about what is happening in there private islands market. The article notes that there are currently more than&nbsp;a dozen islands on the market in Australia right now.&nbsp; Here is what the article &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/islands\/why-settle-for-a-house-when-you-can-buy-an-island.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-36370","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\/36370"}],"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=36370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}