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| Subject: Anarcho-Capitalist NEWS: How to buy your own island Mon Jul 29, 2013 12:58 am | |
| may not have the $US500 million to $US600 million it probably cost the Oracle CEO, one of the world's richest men, to buy Hawaii's sixth-largest island, Lanai, recently.
But call a friendly island broker and you'll find that around the globe, there are hundreds of rocky, sandy, grassy or coral islands on sale at any time. They can be everything from idyllic to uninhabitable, within spitting distance of a major city or many hundreds of miles from anything, with their own airport or inaccessible by anything but a canoe.
Farhad Vladi says he has sold more than 2,000 islands in 22 countries since 1972, when he got his start. His company, Vladi Private Islands, has sold islands to Johnny Depp, Diana Ross and Tony Curtis (who loved it so much, he bought two).
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/executive-style/luxury/how-to-buy-your-own-island-20120704-21grt.html#ixzz2aPKFD9d2 |
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