The World's Most Expensive Homes

THE W ORLD'S M OST EXPENSIVE HOMES PROPERTIES FOR SALE: 10 Hearst's Mansion 9 Maison de l'Amitie $95m (6-acres) $95m (80,000 sq ft) Location: Beverly Hills Location: Palm Beach, Florida Owner: Leonard M. Ross Owner: Dmitry Rybolovlev This house was made famous in a scene The Maison de l'Amitie is perfect if in the movie 'The Godfather' in which a disloyal Hollywood movie producer you're looking for separate guest cottages for your visitors to stay in - awoke to find a severed horse head in because 18 bedrooms, 15 full bathrooms bed with him. and 8 half-baths isn't enough room for everyone, clearly. This 'home' is actually 4 houses, an apartment and a cottage all together – totaling 29 bedrooms, along with a movie theater, a disco and much more. It The owner, Dmitry Rybolovlev, also owns AS Monaco FC and had what is believed to be the most expensive once had the most expensive listing in US history when put on the market at $165m. divorce settlement in history – with Swiss courts ordering him to pay his ex-wife $4.5 billion. 8 Palo Alto Loire Chateau 7 One57 Penthouse $95m (25,000 sq ft) $100.5m (10,923 sq ft) Location: Silicon Valley, California Location: Floors 89 and 90 of the Midtown highrise, overlooking Central Park, New York Owner: Unknown Owner: Yuri Milner This house became the first 'single-family home' in the US to be sold for $100m+. Does your single-family home have 14 bathrooms, a ballroom and a private car wash? The penthouse features 23ft high ceilings and glass curtain walls that offer a panoramic view of Central Park. As well as having access to all of the amenities the Park Hyatt hotel has to offer (which takes up the first 39 floors of the building) owners can also use their own private amenities floor, complete with pool, gym, library and theater. The owner, Yuri Milner, is an investor in Facebook, Twitter, Spotify, Groupon and lots of other highly successful online businesses, and is worth over $1.8 billion. 6 Fleur de Lys 5 Franchuk Villa $125m (45,000 sq ft) $129m (Unkown size) Location: Holmby Hills, Los Angeles Owner: Suzanne Saperstein (last known) Location: Kensington, London Owner: Elena Franchuk Along with a 24-karat gold trimmed interior, there is also a 50-seat home cinema and a host of museum-worthy furniture; including Napoleon's favourite This five-story, 10-bedroom Victorian villa used to be an all-girls school until 1997. In 2006, developers purchased the property for £20m ($33m) and spent chair. £10m on refurbishing it, before selling it two years later for £80m ($129m) – not a The house took 6 years to build after first being commissioned in 1996, and was modelled after King Louis XIV's Palace of Versailles. bad profit for 2 years work. 4 Bran Castle 3 One Hyde Park Penthouse $135m (20 acres) $214m (17,000 sq ft) Location: Brasov, Romania Location: Hyde Park, London Owner: Archduke Dominic Habsburg Owner: Rinat Akhmetov 24 hour room service, private gyms, his-and-her studies, SAS Special Forces protection, bulletproof windows, iris Built in the late 14th century to ward off invading Turks, this castle has 17 bedrooms and legend has it that the cruel Vlad the Impaler - Count Dracula - scanners.but not enough luxury, apparently. The owner is planning on spending upwards of £59m ($90m) on further renovations. spent just a solitary night in his former haunt. Because of its links to Dracula, and the horror movies that go with it, the castle is extremely popular with tourists – with over 500,000 people visiting each year. When purchasing such a highly priced property in the UK, you're hit with a bill of stamp duty to match; which would be £9.8m ($6.4m) in the case of this Hyde Park penthouse. 2 Rutland Gate, 2-8a $485m (60,000 sq ft) Location: Hyde Park, London Owner: Hariri Family Although appearing conservative from the outside, the Hariri mansion features 45 bedrooms and i largest single-family home in the UK other than Buckingham Palace. therefore the Owned by former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri and his family, they are believed to be worth over $4 billion. 221B 1 Antilia $1bn (400,000 sq ft) Location: Mumbai Owner: Mukesh Ambani Featuring floors almost twice the height of a typical room, Antilia is technically 40-stories tall. What do you do with a house this big? Well, obviously you'd fill it with health spas, yoga studios, swimming pools, inside gardens, a 168-car garage, a 50-seat movie studio, three helipads, a Hindu temple and about 600 staff should do the trick. Brought to you by ASPIRE www.aspire-doors.co.uk Sources: home.howstuffworks.com/real-estate/most-expensive-houses.htm en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_the_Impaler en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Rybolovlev variety.com/2007/dirt/real-estalker/the-165000000-mega-estate-of-leonard-ross-1201226666/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafic_Hariri www.xe.com %24