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...There's no such thing as an undiscovered paradise," says a California real estate man named Karel van Haefton. "There is only a paradise that someone has found and wants to sell." He should know. At 29, Van Haefton is founder and owner of a most unusual realty company. Operating out of a handsome houseboat on Sausalito's waterfront, it is called Rare Earth Realty, and it sells the kind of land that some people consider, well, paradise...
...those who want their own secluded beaches badly enough, Rare Earth offers 2,700 acres of Caribbean frontage in Colombia (asking price: $1,700,000), 454 acres on a Fiji island ($1 million) or 30 acres in Tahiti ($150,000). Mountaintop retreats? Van Haefton has 20 of them. Also an Indian burial ground in California, a 1,400-acre canyon in Mexico, an obsolete ICBM base in New York State. As for whole islands, Rare Earth lists 400 for sale, including, Van Haefton says, "one in Nova Scotia for $16,000 and another in the British Virgins for $8 million...