Most of the hilltop developments have water access rights.
'It's really difficult and my mortgage is extortionate - the payments have more than doubled,' says Joanne Gower, 43, who moved from Lytham St Annes, in Lancashire, to a hilltop village development near Mojácar two and a half years ago.
Add to that resortlike services, and you have this 5,500-acre development of farmhouses and a medieval hilltop castle, which is being restored to open as a hotel and spa in summer 2008.
WHAT -- 3-bedroom house HOW MUCH -- $1.2 million This 1,801-square-foot 1,801-square-foot 1,801-square-foote of the newer Easaltboxdevelopments.
Following the establishment of a royal city on the hilltop, successive rulers put in place regulations to govern the development of these villages and manage the subjects inhabiting them.
Over the years, most of the land was sold for development, and now the restaurant sits on a four-acre hilltop overlooking cul-de-sacs of modest homes.
In the land rush that is Grenada's new development era, several grumbling locals see another injustice: from the hilltop jail, convicts enjoy the best views on the island.
Mr. Moylan said the designation could be useful in efforts to preserve the view, which has been threatened by high-rise development, of the Statue of Liberty from the cemetery's hilltop statue of Minerva.
Mr. Kean, now the president of Drew University, lives in Far Hills, but his former hilltop house, which has been resold, has provided a name to the development, called Governor Hill at Livingston.
