Pictured: Villas Del Mar Casita, Sentient Jet

It’s not uncommon to see developers include everything from chauffeured cars to yacht charters as amenities to luxury property purchasers. Now, a select group of of high-end vacation home developers has taken their amenity lists to the next level by offering discount private jet travel to their customers, according to a recent article by Kevin Bass of the International Herald Tribune.

Villas Del Mar, a Cabo San Lucas development where new homes start at $2.35 million, has partnered with jetshare firm Sentient to offer home purchasers a $150,000 discount on Sentient’s $250,000 Gold Membership program.  Likewise, Residences at Beach Bay, a fractional ownership resort club on Grand Cayman, has partnered with Halcyon Jets to offer discounted rates to buyers of its $360,000 1/8 share beachfront villas. A South African development, South Africa’s Garden Route, has taken a slightly different approach by purchasing a Hawker 4000 that it offers to residents at a reduced charter rate.

Gimmicky? Yes.  But at as one Del Mar purchaser notes, it’s “better than a watch.”

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After catching the second episode of Bravo’s Million Dollar Listing last night, we decided to do a little research into which of the show’s three featured LA super-agents has the most baller active listing. It was a tough call, but we’re giving the honor to recently-arrested, 21-year-old Josh Flagg, who currently has a ridiculously lavish Beverley Hills estate available for lease at $50,000 per month (pictured left), as well as two properties for sale priced individually at more than $12.95 million. The most expensive of Flagg’s listings is a nearly $16 million traditional home in Brentwood.

Coming in at a close second is Madison Hildebrand, who’s got a $13.495 million estate site in Beverley Hills up for grabs, as well as a $35,000/month beach-front home for lease in Malibu. And pulling up the rear is Chad Rogers, who’s apparently been spending more time on his page boy haircut than booking new multi-million dollar listings. (We’re actually just giving Rogers a hard time, as he recently completed a sale on a $16 million property in Malibu Colony, as well as Ronald Richard’s $3.8 million condo in the Sierra Towers, featured on the show. Rogers also has Richard’s smaller Sierra Towers unit in escrow).

For those who didn’t catch the news earlier this month, Flagg was arrested and released on a $100,000 bail after reportedly stealing Picasso’s and Chagall’s from estates that he’d been listing. So, although Flagg has the most baller listing currently on the market, we’ll have to wait and see if he can keep it up post arrest scandal.

Pictured in the gallery below you’ll see more shots of Flagg’s $50,000/month Beverley Hills estate, a rendering of the mansion planned for Hildebrand’s Beverley Hills lot, and Rogers’ $5.15 million Georgian estate also on the market in Beverley Hills.

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After splitting up from his wife, Jackass star Johnny Knoxville has put his 1924 Mediterranean villa in the Hollywood Hills up for sale at $1.695 million. From the listing information and pictures, one thing’s clear: he’s living a lot larger than Steve-O. Which shouldn’t come as any major surprise. The three bedroom, three bath, nearly 3,000 square foot crib, is equipped with plenty of luxury amenities, including a media room and a large master bath with a steam shower. While the lot is small at 0.21-acres, it features a courtyard, a large pool, and fairly expansive views.

Knoxville also owns another $2+ million house in the Hills, although it’s unclear whether he’s occupying it at the moment. For an up close view of Knoxville’s for sale house, take a look at the gallery images below.

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Nicholas Cage is a man who likes his real estate. In recent years the actor has bought and sold homes in San Francisco, New Orleans, Rhode Island, Bath, England, and Newport Beach, California. Now it looks like Cage might be leaving Las Vegas.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Nick Cage’s 14,000 square foot Las Vegas mansion is on the market at $9.95 million, $1.45 million more than he dropped on the place in 2006. According to listing information and the virtual tour, Cage’s seven-bedroom LV crib features an elevator, 16-car garage, a high-end home theater, a swimming pool and views of the strip.

Surprisingly, the mega mansion sits on just over a third of an acre. Meaning that the pool sits practically above the street to the back of the house. Not the most private situation for an actor of his caliber. But if the place strikes your fancy, we’re betting that you might be able to pick it up at a discount to its listing price given that it’s been sitting on the market since last fall.

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Despite a flood of new residential development in Dubai, Middle East business business resource AME Info is reporting that real estate prices continue to rise. To give you an idea of how much you’d have to drop to pick up a luxury property in the over-the-top desert oasis in today’s market, we’ve taken Better Homes’ sales index report for some of the priciest villas and flats, and we’ve converted the prices from UAE dirhams to U.S. dollars. Our simplified Dubai price index covers the three most expensive villa communities as well as the three priciest apartment developments tracked in the Better Homes Index according to average sales prices for recent transactions.

As you’ll see in the index above, the priciest pads recently purchased in Dubai are located in The Palm Jumeirah (pictured above the chart), where an apartment went for just over $13 million and a villa sold for close to $9.7 mil. On average, a high-end luxury villa in Dubai will run you more than $2.5 million, and a nice apartment will set you back a more reasonable $1+ million.

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