RSSDracula’s Castle For Sale
All of these Beverly Hills and Palm Beach homes that have been listed in the 30-50 million dollar range have nothing on a good midieval property out of the heart of Transylvania. The home that inspired the story of Dracula is for sale for a cool 78 million dollars.
Got to love it.
The family that owns a Transylvanian castle famous for its connections to the 15th Century medieval ruler who inspired “Dracula” said Wednesday that it wants to sell the fortress to local authorities for $78 million.
The local council said it was interested in buying Bran Castle, perched high on a rock and surrounded by snowcapped mountains in southern Transylvania. Dominic Habsburg, the owner, insisted his family had honorable intentions for wanting to sell the castle.
We are trying to find the best way to preserve the castle in the interest of the family and the people of Bran,” Habsburg said in a statement.
The castle was returned to Habsburg, a New York architect, in May. It was confiscated by the communists from Habsburg’s mother, Princess Ileana, in 1948, the year the royals were forced to leave the country.
After the restitution, concerns were raised that the family could sell the castle to a hotel chain and that the site could end up being the centerpiece of a Dracula theme park that would blight the surrounding, pristine countryside some 105 miles north of Bucharest. via the Chicago Tribune.
TIME: EVERYONE IS ‘PERSON OF THE YEAR’
This is the definition of cool and lame at the same time. Everyone is Person of the Year according to Time Magazine. So, take a bow and book a speaking agent, because you too can bill yourself as Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year.” via the Drudge Report
Daily Commentary – Wednesday November 8th, 2006
Dana Pretzer in his morning update discusses
- The Delaware Sex Offender Who Was Forced To Wear a T-Shirt Instead of Jail
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Buy Leonard Bernsteins Dakota Apartment for Only 25.5 Million
Leonard Bernstein’s apartment in the famed Dakota Apartments(wikipedia) in Manhattan is for sale at the price of a cool 25.5 Million dollars. The Dakota is most famous as the place where John Lennon lived and was murdered outside of. Other famous residents of the Dakota over the years include: actress Lauren Bacall , rock star Bono ,newscaster Connie Chung, and many others..
Read the rest at the Real Estate Bloggers.
Housing Prices Drop While Sales Increase and Rents Rise
This sounds like a market working perfectly. While the rest of the media is clamoring about the real estate market experiencing its biggest drop in home prices in 35 years, the smart money was watching 2 other statistics. Rental prices are rising very quickly and homes are selling at a higher rate than was to be expected.
So it sounds like a market that was oversold is correcting and demand is building up. To read more about how housing market economics work and more on todays housing announcement, go to the Real Estate Bloggers for the rest.
