Ten most expensive houses in the world
The owners of these houses are some of the richest people in the world, people whose cleverness, acumen, and very hard work has gotten them more money than most of us could ever imagine.
A $1,000,000 house seems impossibly extravagant in this day and age.
10. Beverly House – $135 million the Beverly House is pretty reputed among the rich and famous. The Kennedys, Rihanna and the Prince of Monaco are among the property’s illustrious roster of guests. It’s a 30 bedroom estate just a few blocks from Sunset Boulevard that’s currently for sale, and if it goes, it will pass the Fleur de Lys mansion for most expensive house ever sold in Los Angeles county.
The current owner, Leonard Ross, who bought the mansion in 1976 when he was just 31, said it takes two hours to give interested buyers the grand tour.
But, given the visual mastery of the backyard, with columns, color-coordinated hedges,and a fountain-like swimming pool, it wouldn’t take much to convince people to go in for the kill.
9. Shepard Krech House –$140 millionAs of July 27th, 2015, this property,whose main residence is called the Shepard Krech house, is the most expensive property for sale in America. Located in the East Hamptons, this property extends over 11.2 acres of some of the most expensive land in, well, the land.
The house itself is 10,300 square feet, or big enough to have 10 bedrooms, four fireplaces, a workout room, an art gallery, a conservatory, and a guest-house. In other words, if you can afford to buy this house, then you can afford to literally never leave again, and never get bored because your house is like basically a mini city. All you would need is friends.
8. Spelling Manor – $150 millionEveryone remembers Aaron Spelling, arguably one of the most successful TV magnates of all time.He was the executive producer of Beverly Hills, 90210,Summer land wanted 7th Heaven, and charmed, among others.
With a televised reputation like that, it’s no wonder that Spelling could afford one of themost expensive pieces of property in the world.
The 57,000 square foot home sold for an undisclosed price in 2012, but it was listed at $150 million. Specs on the home show that it has fourteen bedrooms and twenty-seven bathrooms, along with certain highly specialized activity rooms, such as a wrapping room and a silverware-storage room.
7. Hearst Mansion – 165 millionIn 2014, Lady Gaga released her “G.U.Y. – An Artpop Film,” a music video including several of her songsfromArtpop. It was a music video of stunning opulence, like the lavishness CGI’ed into the background in the Baz Luhrmann version of Great Gastby.
The difference is, in the music video, the set was real: it was filmed in the Heart Mansion in California, valued at $165 million dollars. With three swimming pools,a massive wine cellar and its own zoo, it’s understandable why the property would cost that much. But, owned as it is by the Hearst estate, one of history’s most renown newspaper magnates, it’s understandable.
6. Palazzo di Amore – $195 millionThe last house in the list under 2 million dollars, this one barely makes the cut. At $195 million dollars, this home is in the top tier of expensive homes in the world. Its title, Italian for “Palace of Love,” really does it justice: this place would seduce you immediately.
The Palazzo di Amore is a 53,000 square foot Mediterranean-style villa. 15,000, or roughly ¼ of that, is an entertainment complex containing a ballroom with a revolving dance floor.
The house also has amenities such as 12 bedrooms, 23 bathrooms, a bowling alley, a theater, tennis courts, swimming pools, reflecting pools, waterfalls and a garage that can fit 27 cars. If you lived in this California mansion, you would never have to leave.
5. The Penthouse – $200 millionThis apartment in London costs more than six-thousand pounds, or$9,500, per square foot. That’s absurdly expensive, considering that a square foot can hold like, a$1 jug of distilled water. But it comes with some good add-ons, including floor-to-ceiling windows, apanic room, SAS trained security guards, bullet-proof windows, 24-hour room service from celebritychef Heston Blumenthal, an access to luxurious spas and squash courts.
Even with all that, it would hard to justify blowing one-fifth of a billion dollars on an apartment; like, why not buy the entire state of mountain instead? But hey, to each his own.
4. Fair Field – $250 million dollars fair Field is a 63-acre oceanfront property in the Hamptons, in New York. The house has 29 bedrooms, 39 bathrooms, a power plant, three swimming pools, a synagogue, two courtyards, an orangery, a 164-seathome theater, a basketball court, and a bowling alley. In short, it’s an agriculture, entertainment, religious worship, workout, bowel movement(39 bathrooms?!) and sleep complex all in one.
The house is so gigantic that the nearby residents in the Hamptons filed a lawsuit against the owner. They lost, but local legislators ratified a law after the house went up saying that from then on, Southampton homes couldn’t exceed 20,000 feet (Fair Field is 110,000.)
3. Penthouse at Tour de Odeon, Monaco – $400 millionMonaco, like Dubai and Abu Dhabi, is known for its extreme, sun-soaked luxury. The penthouse at the Tour de Odeon there has been called the most expensive apartment in the world.It’s in the second tallest building on the Mediterranean skyline, and it has fun hookups like a 360°view ofthe water, and access to a rooftop infinity pool with a waterslide that goes into it.
Plus, the apartment is in Monaco, a tax haven that attracts high-rollers, so life in general is pretty and cosy.
2. Villa Leopolda, Villefrance-Sur-Mer, France – $750 millionMost of the properties on this list are relatively new. If they were not, chances are people wouldn’t pay that much money to get them. Expensive old homes either become part of the cultural patrimony or are bulldozed to makespace for something new. The Villa Leopolda has been around for quite some time, though. King Leopold of Belgium had it built in 1902 as a gift to one of his mistresses (mustn’t she have been charming?).
In 2008, a Russian billionaire named Mikhail Prokhorov tried to buy the house and it was valued at 500 million euros, or roughly 750 million USD.
Despite not having all the cool stuff the rest of these homes do, the Villa Leopolda is a monument to aristocratic good taste, and does, after all, occupy 50acres of desirable land.
1. Antilia, Mumbai, India – $1 billionBy far the most expensive house on this list – to give you an idea, you could afford to buy multiple houses on this list for the price of the Antilia – this thing is definitely not worth its price tag. Although it was designed by forward-thinking Chicagoan architects Perkins & Will,and features a temple, a health-level, a home-theatre, three helipads, and a garage with space for 168 cars, it’s unimaginable that any house could ever be worth one billion dollars.
The house is 400,000 square feet, but rather than being flat and wide, like say a ranch, it’s a 27-story skyscraper. To compare to the Penthouse in London, here square feet are only $2.50 apiece – considerably more bang for your buck (or pound for your pound!)
A $1,000,000 house seems impossibly extravagant in this day and age.
10. Beverly House – $135 million the Beverly House is pretty reputed among the rich and famous. The Kennedys, Rihanna and the Prince of Monaco are among the property’s illustrious roster of guests. It’s a 30 bedroom estate just a few blocks from Sunset Boulevard that’s currently for sale, and if it goes, it will pass the Fleur de Lys mansion for most expensive house ever sold in Los Angeles county.
The current owner, Leonard Ross, who bought the mansion in 1976 when he was just 31, said it takes two hours to give interested buyers the grand tour.
But, given the visual mastery of the backyard, with columns, color-coordinated hedges,and a fountain-like swimming pool, it wouldn’t take much to convince people to go in for the kill.
9. Shepard Krech House –$140 millionAs of July 27th, 2015, this property,whose main residence is called the Shepard Krech house, is the most expensive property for sale in America. Located in the East Hamptons, this property extends over 11.2 acres of some of the most expensive land in, well, the land.
The house itself is 10,300 square feet, or big enough to have 10 bedrooms, four fireplaces, a workout room, an art gallery, a conservatory, and a guest-house. In other words, if you can afford to buy this house, then you can afford to literally never leave again, and never get bored because your house is like basically a mini city. All you would need is friends.
8. Spelling Manor – $150 millionEveryone remembers Aaron Spelling, arguably one of the most successful TV magnates of all time.He was the executive producer of Beverly Hills, 90210,Summer land wanted 7th Heaven, and charmed, among others.
With a televised reputation like that, it’s no wonder that Spelling could afford one of themost expensive pieces of property in the world.
The 57,000 square foot home sold for an undisclosed price in 2012, but it was listed at $150 million. Specs on the home show that it has fourteen bedrooms and twenty-seven bathrooms, along with certain highly specialized activity rooms, such as a wrapping room and a silverware-storage room.
7. Hearst Mansion – 165 millionIn 2014, Lady Gaga released her “G.U.Y. – An Artpop Film,” a music video including several of her songsfromArtpop. It was a music video of stunning opulence, like the lavishness CGI’ed into the background in the Baz Luhrmann version of Great Gastby.
The difference is, in the music video, the set was real: it was filmed in the Heart Mansion in California, valued at $165 million dollars. With three swimming pools,a massive wine cellar and its own zoo, it’s understandable why the property would cost that much. But, owned as it is by the Hearst estate, one of history’s most renown newspaper magnates, it’s understandable.
6. Palazzo di Amore – $195 millionThe last house in the list under 2 million dollars, this one barely makes the cut. At $195 million dollars, this home is in the top tier of expensive homes in the world. Its title, Italian for “Palace of Love,” really does it justice: this place would seduce you immediately.
The Palazzo di Amore is a 53,000 square foot Mediterranean-style villa. 15,000, or roughly ¼ of that, is an entertainment complex containing a ballroom with a revolving dance floor.
The house also has amenities such as 12 bedrooms, 23 bathrooms, a bowling alley, a theater, tennis courts, swimming pools, reflecting pools, waterfalls and a garage that can fit 27 cars. If you lived in this California mansion, you would never have to leave.
5. The Penthouse – $200 millionThis apartment in London costs more than six-thousand pounds, or$9,500, per square foot. That’s absurdly expensive, considering that a square foot can hold like, a$1 jug of distilled water. But it comes with some good add-ons, including floor-to-ceiling windows, apanic room, SAS trained security guards, bullet-proof windows, 24-hour room service from celebritychef Heston Blumenthal, an access to luxurious spas and squash courts.
Even with all that, it would hard to justify blowing one-fifth of a billion dollars on an apartment; like, why not buy the entire state of mountain instead? But hey, to each his own.
4. Fair Field – $250 million dollars fair Field is a 63-acre oceanfront property in the Hamptons, in New York. The house has 29 bedrooms, 39 bathrooms, a power plant, three swimming pools, a synagogue, two courtyards, an orangery, a 164-seathome theater, a basketball court, and a bowling alley. In short, it’s an agriculture, entertainment, religious worship, workout, bowel movement(39 bathrooms?!) and sleep complex all in one.
The house is so gigantic that the nearby residents in the Hamptons filed a lawsuit against the owner. They lost, but local legislators ratified a law after the house went up saying that from then on, Southampton homes couldn’t exceed 20,000 feet (Fair Field is 110,000.)
3. Penthouse at Tour de Odeon, Monaco – $400 millionMonaco, like Dubai and Abu Dhabi, is known for its extreme, sun-soaked luxury. The penthouse at the Tour de Odeon there has been called the most expensive apartment in the world.It’s in the second tallest building on the Mediterranean skyline, and it has fun hookups like a 360°view ofthe water, and access to a rooftop infinity pool with a waterslide that goes into it.
Plus, the apartment is in Monaco, a tax haven that attracts high-rollers, so life in general is pretty and cosy.
2. Villa Leopolda, Villefrance-Sur-Mer, France – $750 millionMost of the properties on this list are relatively new. If they were not, chances are people wouldn’t pay that much money to get them. Expensive old homes either become part of the cultural patrimony or are bulldozed to makespace for something new. The Villa Leopolda has been around for quite some time, though. King Leopold of Belgium had it built in 1902 as a gift to one of his mistresses (mustn’t she have been charming?).
In 2008, a Russian billionaire named Mikhail Prokhorov tried to buy the house and it was valued at 500 million euros, or roughly 750 million USD.
Despite not having all the cool stuff the rest of these homes do, the Villa Leopolda is a monument to aristocratic good taste, and does, after all, occupy 50acres of desirable land.
1. Antilia, Mumbai, India – $1 billionBy far the most expensive house on this list – to give you an idea, you could afford to buy multiple houses on this list for the price of the Antilia – this thing is definitely not worth its price tag. Although it was designed by forward-thinking Chicagoan architects Perkins & Will,and features a temple, a health-level, a home-theatre, three helipads, and a garage with space for 168 cars, it’s unimaginable that any house could ever be worth one billion dollars.
The house is 400,000 square feet, but rather than being flat and wide, like say a ranch, it’s a 27-story skyscraper. To compare to the Penthouse in London, here square feet are only $2.50 apiece – considerably more bang for your buck (or pound for your pound!)
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