Top 10 Worldwide Real Estate Developments & Top 10 Green Cities in the U.S.
According to Travel and Leisure, a upscale travel magazine, the following tops the list of places for people seeking the ultimate home away from home.
1. Castello Di Casole — Tuscany, Italy. Includes 19 restored farmhouses. Price from $585,000 for a fractional and from $6 million for full ownership.
2. The Club At Spanish Peaks — Big Sky, Montana. Boasts ski-in, ski-out access during winter, and rights to a Tom Weiskopf-designed 18-hole golf course in the spring. Price of cabins from $2.2 million; sites from $700,000.
3. Fairmont Heritage Place — San Francisco. Condos are the newest addition to San Francisco's Ghirardelli Square. Most units overlook the bay. Shares from $250,000.
4. Four Seasons Residence Club — Vail, Colo. Includes 19 ski cabins, each divided into 12 shares. Price from $390,000.
5. Green Village at Cap Cana — Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Has 245 full-ownership, one-bedroom bungalows and two-bedroom villas have private infinity pools, stone patios, and outdoor hot tubs. Price from $465,000 for bungalows; from $867,000 for villas.
6. Miraval Living — New York City. Zen living. On higher floors there are 365 one-, two-, and three-bedroom full-ownership condo units. Price from $650,000.
7. Palazzo Tornabuoni — Florence, Italy. Steps from the Piazza del Duomo, this renovated 15th-century palace has 36 units, from studios to three-bedroom apartments, each divided into eight fractional shares. Price from $227,000.
8. The Palmyra Resort & Spa — Montego Bay, Jamaica. Includes 656 full-ownership units, ranging from one-bedroom condos to three-bedroom beach-front villas. Price from $450,000.
9. Ritz-Carlton Club And Residences — Kapalua Bay, Maui. The 84 full-ownership and 62 two-, three-, and four-bedroom fractionally owned condos at this ocean-front resort have views of Molokai's and Lanai's volcanoes. An additional 107 full-ownership suites are available at the nearby Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Price from $300,000 for the Club; from $895,000 for suites.
10. W South Beach Hotel & Residences — Miami Beach, Fla. Has 419 Yabu Pushelberg-designed, full-ownership condo units with up to three bedrooms, plus five 1,332-square-foot beach-front bungalows. Price from $750,000.
Source: Reuters News (03/09/07)
Country Home Magazine reports that Burlington, Vt., is the nation's greenest city amongst the 379 metropolitan areas in a “Best Green Places” survey based on air and watershed quality, mass transit use, power use, and number of organic producers and farmers’ markets.
Those who made it to the top 10 list includes::
1. Burlington, Vt.
2. Ithaca, N.Y.
3. Corvallis, Ore.
4. Springfield, Mass.
5. Wenatchee, Wash.
6. Charlottesville, Va.
7. Boulder, Colo.
8. Madison, Wis.
9. Binghamton, N.Y.
10. Champaign-Urbana, Ill.
The survey will be published in the magazine's April issue, which hits newsstands March 20.
Source: The Associated Press, John Curran (03/07/07)