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An Entire Town In New Zealand Is For Sale by chily11: 2:52pm On Oct 31, 2018
Some people buy houses. Some people buy apartments.

Some people, perhaps, buy an entire abandoned town in New Zealand.

Lake Waitaki Village, located on the South Island about 180 km (112 miles) north of Dunedin, is up for sale for a cool $2.8 million.

The town, which was built in the 1930s as housing for men working on a nearby dam construction project and their families, has been sitting empty since the late 1980s when the dam was automated and no longer needed people there every day.

That also coincided with more and more New Zealanders opting to settle in cities instead of pursuing a rural life.

But don't expect a creepy "Westworld"-style ghost town if you travel here to see it. Lake Waitaki Village is still in remarkably good shape, consisting of eight houses, a restaurant, a main lodge with a billiard room and full commercial kitchen, multicar garages and more.

Kelli Milmine, a New Zealand-based real estate agent at the One Agency, notes that "the area's tourism potential is only recently starting to be realized with the opening of the Alps to Ocean (A2O) cycle trail bringing many new visitors to the region."

One potential hurdle? Earlier this year, New Zealand passed a law making it impossible for foreign citizens to buy property there.
The reasoning behind the law was that real estate prices in New Zealand had soared so dramatically that locals couldn't afford to live in the places they'd grown up.
Re: An Entire Town In New Zealand Is For Sale by Nobody: 3:03pm On Oct 31, 2018
I Will Purchase The Land
Re: An Entire Town In New Zealand Is For Sale by JudasNaCarrot: 3:08pm On Oct 31, 2018
No picture....No believe!

Meanwhile let me contact Gbenga my estate agent to begin processing something because I'm gonna get this if it happens to be true and genuine.

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Re: An Entire Town In New Zealand Is For Sale by ImperialYoruba: 4:11pm On Oct 31, 2018
Abeg sell that land to Kanu. He needs somewhere far far away from zoo to relocate his biafran jews...

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