Boston: from €346,000North America has interesting investment properties, from the east coast to the Rocky Mountains.
Condominiums in downtown Boston ranging in price from $470,000 (€346,000) to $1,127,000 (€828,000) are being offered to Irish buyers by Savills HOK.
Amenities in 45 Province, a 32-storey development at the foot of Beacon Hill, include 24-hour concierge service, a swimming pool, fitness centre, spa and a restaurant.
The units in the development range from 48sq m (519sq ft) studios for $470,000 to 144sq m (1,550sq ft) two-bedroom plus den apartments for $1.127 million (€829,000). One-beds of 64sq m (692sq ft) cost $491,000 (€360,685), while 90sq m (966sq ft) two-beds cost from $620,000 (€455,540).
The agent estimates that rents for the units, which they say are a short stroll from Boston common and the city's financial district, range upwards from from $3,500 (€2,571) per month for one-beds.
The agent will recommend rental management companies to buyers as well as US solicitors and mortgage companies. The development is due for completion in spring 2009.
Quebec: from €412,337
Luxury log homes deep-ish in Canadian woods - but close to Mont
Tremblant resort in Québec's Laurentian mountains - are being
offered for sale by developer Vivaldi Resorts.
Costing from €412,337 (£279,000), the 218-302sq m
(2,350-3,250sq ft) four and five-bedroom high spec houses at Ogilvy
Lakes come with 42" plasma TVs and hot tubs and sit on an acre of
land close to the lake and a golf course. Ballymena-born Gillian
Porritt is one of the principals of Vivaldi, a company which
earlier launched Blueberry Lake resort in the same area, one to two
hour's drive north of Montreal. The company is offering buyers the
choice of joining a rental pool and offers a one-year rental
guarantee set at 7 per cent of the purchase price of the property
or up to a five-year mortgage guarantee.
www.oglivylakes.com
British Columbia:from €442,000
Apartments in the Rocky Mountains all-season resort of Fernie, dubbed "the coolest town in North America" by Rolling Stone magazine, are for sale from €442,000 (£299,000) through agent Pure International.
There will be 44 two and three-bed apartments/penthouses in 901 Fernie, a renovation project in which a schoolhouse built in 1908 is being restored. They will range in size up to 185sq m (1,990sq ft) and retain period features as well as having facilities like a spa. Buyers at 901 can make use of developer Intrawest's resort-to-resort programme, allowing them use of the developer's network of ski, golf and beach resorts. Fernie is a three-hour drive from Calgary, and close to a regional airport with links to Calgary.
www.pureintl.com
