Monaco Grand Prix - Top Sports Event for Good Reason
- by Roger Munns
- Published on 4/29/06
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The Monaco Grand Prix ranks among the top sporting events in the world, and for good reason.
The combination of Formula One cars street racing and the influx of celebrities to the playground of Europe make a heady mix for the annual event, and is viewed as part of the social calendar for the worlds top sports stars, actors, models and businessmen.
The circuit takes in Casino Square and passes by the renowned Hotel de Paris Monte Carlo, making it one of the most recognizable hotels in the world.
The race started in 1929, organized by Monte Carlo resident and founding president of the Automobile Club de Monaco, Anthony Noghes, and the Grand Prix has made the worlds second smallest country a destination of choice for many.
While Monaco enjoys the attention of the worlds media for one weekend every May, she also attracts many people long term to become residents due to her tax haven status, and residents enjoy a zero rated income tax.
In recent years Monaco has attracted the wealthy for another visit. The annual Monaco Yacht Show in September has the most exclusive yachts in the world moor at the harbor in Fontvieille, and the hotels in Monte Carlo and Monaco are booked full nearly a year in advance.
For both events, the Monaco Grand Prix and the Yacht Show many visitors stay in nearby Nice and travel in, and the hotels in Monaco enjoy full occupancy at premium rates.
Monaco Real Estate
Once a European backwater, Prince Rainier turned Monaco into one of Europes best known locations, combining glamour with an income tax free policy that has attracted millionaires and billionaires to the principality for the last forty years.
Real estate prices reflect the prestige and tax advantages of living in Monaco. One local Monaco estate agency report that currently they have a one bedroom apartment, with no sea views, available at 880,000 Euros. And by the time closing costs are taken into account this rises to around a million Euros.
A two bedroom two bathroom apartment in Monte Carlo is available for 1,900,000 Euros.
And a five bedroom four bathroom apartment, recently featured on the BBCs Money Programme No tax please were rich, in Fontveille, the same area of Monaco where the Hotel Columbus, part owned by Grand Prix driver David Coulthard, is situated with Mediterranean views is available for ten million Euros.
With demand from clients worldwide the prices of real estate in Monaco is likely to be among the highest in the world for the foreseeable future.
Commenting on the local property market, several estate agents have reported good sales for Monte Carlo real estate and for Monaco generally in the first quarter of 2006, with the top end of properties in Monaco doing particularly well compared to the same quarter last year.
And there are rumors among the owners of the hotels in Monaco and Monaco Real Estate industry that two islands could be built with bridges to connect them to Monte Carlo which would allow some 5000 new low rise properties and a hotel to be built.
If the rumors become true of more availability of properties and a new hotel in Monaco the possibility also exists of an extended or changed circuit for the Monaco Grand Prix in years to come.
Roger Munns is the owner of Your Monaco which is a visitor guide for the Monaco tourist.
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