The Real Deal - New York Real Estate News

A modern-style mansion on Dubai’s manmade archipelago, Palm Jumeirah, is on the market for just under $33 million. The 14,000-square-foot home was built by clothing industry businessman Michael Alibhai, who told the Wall Street Journal he “wanted to blow people minds when they visit me.” He bought the property for an undisclosed sum in 2011 and spent six years designing and building the home, taking aesthetic notes from the modern-inspired mega-mansions mansions of Beverly Hills

Some 36,000 picturesque acres are going up for sale in New York’s Adirondack Mountains for the first time in over a century. The huge swath of pristine land is called Whitney Park after the prominent Northeast family that’s owned it since the 1890s. The asking price is $180 million, or roughly $5,000 per acre. The property is hitting the market after its longtime owner, Marylou Whitney, died last year at the age of 93. Whitney

Looking to get real far off the grid? How about a 39-acre solar-powered estate on Maui mountainside? The couple that built out the estate over the last decade put it on the market for $7 million, according to Bloomberg. Linda and John Stobart, the latter a former executive at BHP Billiton Petroleum, set out to build a compound that is “completely off the grid” when they bought the property in 2010. Linda said she’s aware