The 292-acre (118 hectare) Allan Island — not named for its
former owner — had been on the market for nine years and sold on
Friday for well below its original asking price of $20 million,
according to selling agent Wally Gudgell of Windmere Real
Estate.
Allen wanted to ensure that the buyers would maintain the
essential natural integrity of the mostly undeveloped property,
which lies east of the San Juan Island chain about 80 miles
north of Seattle near Anacortes, Gudgell said.
"It was important to the seller what the buyer was going to do
to the island," Gudgell said. "We had some pretty wild buyers
looking at it."
The eventual buyers of the property plan to build roughly eight
homes on the island and use it as a retreat, said buying agent
Tere Foster, also of Windmere.
"They hope to basically live off the grid," Foster said. "It's a
‘be-one-with-the-environment' kind of a thing."
The island, which Allen bought in 1992, has one log cabin, a
small landing strip and a network of walking trails. Foster said
she was not sure whether the buyers would keep the log cabin or
raze it.
(Reporting by Jonathan Kaminsky;
editing by Steve Gorman)
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