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A REMOTE island dubbed a fisherman's paradise is up for sale - but it comes with a warning for its new owners. Sweers Island off the north Queensland Gulf of Carpentaria is under offer at $3.95million and includes a booming tourism business and resort.     (Sweers Island is on the market for $3.95 million. Credit: australianislands.com.au)   (It comes with a bar, two airstrips and a booming fishing business.Credit: australianislands.com.au)   (The 8km long by 2km wide stretch of land is a fisherman's paradise.Credit: australianislands.com.au)   There are two houses for management and staff as well as cabins and hire boats for visitors, two airstrips...

Although the outside still says “church,” the inside of 539 N Mayflower Road is a fully renovated, Gothic-style home that still shines with Gilded Age charm. The property was first listed in February for $1,499,000 and made a market encore in early August for $1,399,000. Set along Lake Michigan’s North Shore in Lake Forest, IL, the three-bedroom home was originally built in 1888 by architect Henry Ives Cobb. It was known as The Ferry Hall Chapel and served the school for “girls and young ladies,” which was founded in 1869 and eventually merged with Lake Forest Academy. “Cobb was also known for designing the First Presbyterian Church of Lake Forest, The...

  On a bluff overlooking an expanse of blue lake, this citadel sits awaiting its next knight in shining armor.At the edge of Idaho’s Frandsen Forest, a mansion-sized residential castle has hit the market, and can now be yours. Known as Castle Von Frandsen, the property originally listed for $7 million last July, a price tag that has since been reduced to its current ask of $4.5 million. The “nearly famous and truly iconic waterfront estate,” as the listing describes, is set on close to 10 acres and includes two buildable waterfront lots. “It might as well have been plucked from a fairytale and placed on the shore of one of the most stunning lakes in...

Balkan-Swedish soccer legend Zlatan Ibrahimović — one of the game’s all-time greatest strikers, who retired at age 41 — just sold his one-bedroom condo at the W South Beach.  Built in 2009, the ninth-floor pad at 2201 Collins Ave. sold for $2.3 million, just under its $2.4 million ask. It was on the market for 74 days.   (Zlatan Ibrahimović.AC Milan via Getty Images)   (The sole bedroom inside the W South Beach condo.Greg Powers)   (The unit’s cozy kitchen.Greg Powers)   (The dining area sports awesome ocean views.Greg Powers)   (A lounging area inside the 1,026-square-foot condo.Greg Powers)   The...

The residence that Neil Armstrong called home during the time he made his historic expedition to the moon has listed for $550,000, according to a release from the listing brokerage. Located in El Lago, Texas, Armstrong, who passed away in 2012 at age 82, had lived in the mid-century home with his family between 1964 and 1971. Built in 1964, Armstrong and fellow astronaut Ed White, who died during the Apollo I mission in 1967, bought three lots of land to split between them. They built their houses, and lived next to each other for those years. Situated on half an acre, the architecture includes the original rock fireplace, staircase railing and the nostalgic pink pool decking, the...

Mercedes-Benz Group AG unveiled an electric vehicle with a longer range than any Tesla Inc. model on the market as the German luxury-car maker intensifies its bid to challenge Elon Musk. The company presented a near-production concept of its CLA sedan rated to go more than 750 kilometers (466 miles) on a single charge, beating Tesla’s refreshed Model 3. The car is Mercedes’s first based on its upcoming EV underpinnings, with a battery system that can add 400 kilometers of range in just 15 minutes of charging. “We’re taking it to the next level,” Mercedes Chief Technology Officer Markus Schäfer said Sunday in an interview ahead of the IAA car show in...

A BEAUTIFUL private island off the Great Barrier Reef is up for sale for less than the price a house. Temple Island, located 3km off Cape Palmerston National Park on the Central Queensland coast comes with 123 acres of land.   (Temple Island costs less than a house.Credit: Private Islands Online)   (The four bedroom home on the island.Credit: Private Islands Online)   It has its own 1100m private airstrip, a four-bedroom home on the highest point of the island, a new tractor, off-road buggy, Range Rover and quad bike. The four bedroom home on the island has three upstairs bedrooms, a downstairs bunk room, kitchen, bathroom, lounge, large veranda and a full solar...

Pop star Cheryl Baker is selling her £1.4 million country home as she finally faces the music after the Covid lockdown left her 'broke' and struggling to pay her taxes. The singer - who won the Eurovision Song Contest with Bucks Fizz and went on to have a string of chart-topping hits with the group - has put the six bedroom cottage on the market in a last-ditch attempt to sort out her finances. It comes after Cheryl, 69, revealed she had been left penniless by the pandemic when all her work dried up overnight and she ended up selling her possessions on eBay. Cheryl told how she sold clothes, including her glamorous outfits, her car and started growing vegetables from a plot at the...

An Australian flying car maker has received a $250 million order for its vehicles to be sold in American flying car showrooms. Ace VTOL in Perth, Australia, announced the order for its flagship personal eVTOL (electric vertical and takeoff and landing) aircraft from Aeroauto in West Palm Beach, Florida. The Ace aircraft, called GT Slipstream, is a two-seater flying car promising speeds of up to 270 mph with a range of 300 miles on a charge. Ace refers to it as a ‘flying muscle car.’ The vehicle is intended to enter the U.S. market as early as 2027, pending certification for test flights by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which recently started issuing airworthiness...

A Hong Kong megamansion with views of Repulse Bay has hit the market for a whopping HK$2.2 billion (about US$281.1 million), making it the city’s priciest listing. The residence is also among the most expensive homes on the market in the world, pricier than the$250 million penthouse at Central Park Tower in New York City, currently the U.S.’s most expensive publicly listed property.     In addition, earlier this year, a new mansion in an exclusive Hong Kong neighborhood known as The Peak reportedly sold for HK$1.2 billion from a mainland Chinese buyer, Mansion Global reported. The more than 18,000-square-foot residence was completed in 2019, but protests in the...