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Massarano is not the only flatlander engaged in a high-stakes land rush for fractionals--the new-millennium term for time shares in lavish condominium projects in Aspen and other beautiful-people playgrounds sprouting around the world. Shelling out an average $221,600 for a deeded share, these Range Rover-in', Fendi-friendly folks who live to ski, golf and power shop are buying a couple of weeks of prime time in first-class venues stretching from the West Coast through the Rockies to the Gulf of Mexico. More often than not, though, the tab ranges from...
...fury on Mexico and Cuba. At its approach, Florida kids celebrated school being called off; some even went on hurricane sleepovers. On Sunday night before the storm hit, Jonathon Pedroz, 13, ate pizza and played 2 Fast 2 Furious video games with friends in a 23rd-floor waterfront condominium north of Miami. They fell asleep at 3 a.m., but were roused at dawn when Wilma arrived with more than 100 m.p.h. winds. Since Wilma came ashore on Florida's west coast, many had hoped it would weaken before it hit the east; instead it sped across the Everglades like...
Randy Bianchi is a firm believer that in America, "a person should be allowed to buy a second, third or fourth home if he or she wants." That goes for real estate investors and speculators, even those who "flip" homes-that is, people who buy a house or condominium for the sole purpose of quickly selling it off for a profit, usually before construction is completed and often without even taking title to it. But Bianchi, a real estate broker and co-owner of Paradise Properties in West Palm Beach, Fla., who says he may soon flip a luxury condo...
Fourteen of the contenders debated tax policy Tuesday at a forum at the Cambridge Senior Center, with challengers claiming that climbing taxes are pricing Cantabrigians out of their own city to make way for wealthy condominium dwellers. The forum was sponsored by the Progressive Democrats of Cambridge, which endorsed seven candidates at the meeting...
...lost in the life my own family has led in the U.S., lost with school, and yes, lost with writing for this very newspaper—I tend to forget that so many of my roots are found right here. I was born and raised in a condominium in New York, so things like geography and language and culture obviously stand in the way of any true reunion between the two locales...