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Private paradise for sale.


Christie's Great Estates and H.G. Christie are presenting for sale a "Sea-to-Sea" private estate on Paradise Island For the DC Comics fictional island formerly known as Paradise Island, see Themyscira

Paradise Island is an island in the Bahamas, north of the island of New Providence which is home to (Nassau). It is best known for the sprawling 'Vegas-by-the-sea resort' Atlantis.
 in the Bahamas, believed to be the Caribbean's most expensive real estate offering ever.

Sited on approximately 3.75 acres on a private island, the property commands 1,750 feet of white-sand beach on the island's north side and the same amount of water frontage to the south with breakwater breakwater, offshore structure to protect a harbor from wave energy or deflect currents. When it also serves as a pier, it is called a quay; when covered by a roadway it is called a mole.  protection and dockage for an 80-foot yacht. The property includes numerous additional slips and a helipad hel·i·pad  
n.
See heliport.


A prepared area designated and used for takeoff and landing of helicopters. (Includes touchdown or hover point.)
.

The estate is comprised of two guest cottages and a 6,000 s/f main house with wraparound Wraparound

A financing device that permits an existing loan to be refinanced and new money to be advanced at an interest rate between the rate charged on the old loan and the current market interest rate.
 patios. It boasts a 60-by-30-foot heated swimming pool with a Bahamian style pool pavilion at the northern end.

The interiors were decorated and furnished by Robert Kime, the well-known English designer.

One of the estate's most unique features is The Gunpowder Room, originally built by the British in 1826 to store gunpowder and now fully restored to entertain guests.

"This property is truly one of the most unique finds in The Bahamas," says John Christie John Christie may refer to:
  • John Christie (Glyndebourne), opera festival founder
  • John Reginald Halliday Christie (1898-1953), convicted serial killer
  • John Alexander Christie (1885 - 1967)
  • John Walter Christie (1865–1944) U.S.
 of H.G. Christie, the exclusive affiliate of Christie's Great Estates.

"It offers all the privacy and ambience of a luxury private island located only minutes from all the excitement of Paradise Island."
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Publication:Real Estate Weekly
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Date:Aug 30, 2006
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