The Austrian state is hoping to make 121,000 euros (176,000 dollars) by selling two mountain peaks in the Tyrolean Alps, media reported Thursday.

The country's real estate administration agency announced on its website that it is selling the 2,690-metre-high Grosser Kinigat and the 2,600-metre-high Rosskopf on the Italian border. 'They are selling islands in Greece. In Austria, it's mountain peaks,' Josef Ausserlechner, mayor of the Kartitsch village near the mountains, was quoted as saying by Austrian press agency APA. He said his community was interested in buying. But he was only willing to pay several 1,000 euros, calling the area a 'wasteland.'

The real estate administration said in its ad that the higher of the two mountains offers 'one of the most scenic views' in this part of the Alps. But the BIG real estate agency is giving potential buyers until July 8 to make a bid for what it calls “the most stunning views of the Carnic Alps.” Curiously, BIG bought the two mountains from the federal state 10 years ago for the price of 300,000 euros, more than double what it is asking for them now.

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1644603.php/Two-Austrian-mountains-on-sale-for-121-000-euros
http://www.euronews.net/2011/06/10/mountains-for-sale-in-the-austrian-alps/