In a recent survey, EscapeHomes.com, a Web site based in Orinda, Calif., that lists vacation homes, resort homes, rentals and time shares nationwide, found that 30percentt of the 520 or so second-home shoppers queried said they were looking a whopping 200 miles away from their primary residences to find more reasonably priced weekend houses.
That includes single-family homes, resort-style golf communities and urban high-rises.
About 20,000 acres remain available for developing vacation homes, resorts and amenities.
This species currently has an estimated wild population of 10,000 animals in 2 3 subpopulations, but is greatly threatened by loss of habitat, as mangrove forests are being used as garbage dump sites and deforested for the construction of homes, resorts, and marinas.
On the business side, Mr. Kheel is chairman of Grupo Punta Cana, a company that has turned a 30-square-mile stretch of coastal jungle in the Dominican Republic into a tourist and vacation-home resort.
Buyers of points usually invest in what's called a home resort, a place where they have priority when making reservations, but they also have the option of going elsewhere.
Zangerl told me that seasonal workers from St Anton often come here to beat the crowds, and also because the fresh snow stays untracked for far longer than it does at their home resort.
Height in feet of the walls of Shaun White's new custom-built halfpipe at his home resort, Northstar-at-Tahoe, Calif.: 22 Number of golden retrievers on ski patrol at Alpine Meadows, Calif.: 11 Inches of snow that fell last season at Mount Baker, Wash., which traditionally has the highest snowfall of any U.S. ski resort: 857.
That's how Maine-based hotelier Tim Harrington describes Hidden Pond, the "flip-flop chic," home-away-from-home resort complex he co-owns with husband Juan Urtubey.
Their home resorts are Paniola Greens in Hawaii and the Legacy Golf Resort in Phoenix.
Though they bought weeks at their home resorts, what they really own is the point value of the two weeks at the properties.
