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Petra Ecclestone’s London Mansion
Ecclestone’s mansion, London
$130 Million
The Twittersphere was ablaze recently with news that Formula One racing heiress Petra Ecclestone had listed her spectacular historic London mansion, Sloane House, for £100 million, or $130 million. The listing supposedly came in reaction to her sister Tamara’s equally-lavish Kensington home being burglarized and an estimated $67 million worth of jewelry snatched. Even at $130 million, the 14-bedroom mansion is some things of a steal; the 31-year-old reportedly paid $85 million to the previous owner, JCB earth-mover billionaire Lord Bamford, then spent another $33 million on a makeover that included digging right down to create one among the most important private basement swimming pools in London. If Ms. Ecclestone’s name sounds familiar, remember that last July she sold her 56,000-square-foot LA estate, built for the late TV producer Aaron Spelling, for $120 million.
most expensive house number 9
Gemini, Manalapan, Florida
Gemini, Palm Beach
$137.5 Million
Talk about a return on investment. Back in 1985, media mogul William Ziff bought a 15-acre ocean-to-lake Palm Beach lot for $5 million. He built a few homes thereon, alongside a pleasant pool and, 31 years later in 2016, listed it for a staggering $195 million. Not surprisingly it didn’t sell. And today, even with a $57 million price-cutting – it’s now listed at a still eye-watering $137.5 million—Gemini remains trying to find a buyer. But everything about this compound-by-the-sea on Manalapan island just south of Palm Beach is eye-watering. Its main house spans no but 62,200 square feet and comes with 12 vast bedrooms. There’s also a seven-bedroom guest residence called Mango House, plus two four-bedroom beachside cottages, and another guesthouse with seven studios. Even by Palm Beach standards, Gemini is exclusive.
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90 Jule Pond Drive, Southampton, NY
$145 Million
Back in 2017, the selling price for this spectacular 42-acre oceanfront compound on Jule Pond Drive, once owned by Ford II, was $175 million. Alas, not even a $30 million price ‘re-alignment’ has seen any serious hand-raisers materialize. additionally to its magnificent quarter-mile of beachfront—still the most important ocean frontage within the entire Hamptons—the estate features a cavernous 20,000-square-foot main residence, renovated in 2008, that boasts a 48-foot-long front room and 12 bedrooms. within the expansive grounds, there’s a court, pool and pool house, and two golf greens. the present owner is portfolio manager Brenda Earl, a former partner at equity fund Zweig-Dimenna. She bought the estate in 2002.
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Villa Firenze, Beverly Park, California
Villa Firenze California
$165 Million
Two years on the market and there are still no hand-raisers for the third most-pricey property within the City of Angels, Villa Firenze. Perched on seven prime acres of security-obsessed Beverly Park, high within the hills above Beverly Hills, this sprawling compound is home to American billionaire Steven Udvar-Hazy, CEO of aircraft leasing giant Air Lease Corporation. Styled like an Italian palazzo, the 20,000-square-foot main home is complemented by a 5,000-square-foot guest house, a pool house, and two other guest houses, bringing the entire lebensraum to quite 28,000 square feet. Other features include a further 2.8-acre adjoining lot ripe for development, an enormous swimming bath, court, and 30-car motor court.
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Casa Encantada, Bel Air, California
$225 Million
When it quietly hit the market in October, the 60-room Casa Encantada, sprawling over eight and a half acres of tony Bel-Air, became the foremost expensive piece of land on sale within the US. Dating back to the 1930s, the estate was once owned by hotel magnate Conrad Hilton. Today it’s home to financier Gary Winnick, whose company Global Crossing installed ocean-floor fiber-optic cable to attach four continents and 27 countries. Winnick paid a reported $94 million in 2000 for the Georgian masterpiece and proceeded to spend another large indefinite quantity employing a team of 250 craftsmen to undertake an exhaustive two-year restoration.
most expensive house number 5
Mesa Vista Ranch, Pampa, Texas
$250 Million
You might have thought that the death last September of 91-year-old baron T. Boone Pickens may need to be had his heirs rethinking the $250 million tag of his beloved Mesa Vista Ranch within the Texas Panhandle. Not so; it’s still a pleasant, round quarter of a billion dollars. Take it or leave it. Boone Pickens spent on the brink of 50 years assembling the property which today covers over 65,000 acres or over 100 square miles. What it includes is miles off the rushing Canadian, four homes including a 33,000-square-feet main lodge, a personal airport with a 6,000-foot runway and terminal building, a 30-seat home theater, golf links, tennis course, and a two-story stone kennel with 40 bird dogs.
most expensive house number 4
Gateways Canyons, Gateway, Colorado
$279 Million
Discovery Channel founder John Hendricks remains expecting that ‘right’ buyer to return along – with a spare $279 million. The 8,700-acre Gateways Canyons Ranches and Resort was the dream of Hendricks to create a huge compound within the teeny town of Gateway, Colorado about 180 miles west of Aspen. The billionaire bought his first parcel of land here within the 1990s and kept on buying until he reached today’s massive acreage. the large property includes a 22,000-square-feet main house he calls West Creek Ranch Residence. Then there’s the 72-room full-service Gateway Canyons Resort and Spa. And even a car museum, the Gateway Colorado Auto Museum, with around 55 classic cars from Hendricks’ collection. increase all this a grass airstrip, airplane hangar, and two helipads. With Hendricks and his wife Maureen spending less time at the ranch, he says it’s time to sell. Just not at any price.
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Pierre Cardin’s Bubble Palace, France
$390 Million
Looking sort of a set from a shag-a-delic Austin Powers movie, fashion icon Pierre Cardin’s wild Cote d’Azur dwelling, le Palais Boules, or Bubble Palace, delivers total sensory overload. Designed in 1975 by Hungarian architect Antii Lovag, this cluster of pink upturned flower pots overlooking the shimmery Mediterranean on the brink of Cannes, took 14 years to create. Cardin, now 97, bought the compound in 1992 and listed it purchasable in 2017 after a five-year restoration. The asking price? A jaw-dropping 350 million euros, or $389 million today. With 26 barnacle-like pods, 13,000-square feet of interior space, 10 bedrooms, several swimming pools, a 500-seat amphitheater, and not a line within the place, this bubbalicious compound is certainly a preference.
most expensive house number 2
24 Middle Gap Road, Hong Kong
$447 Million
A year on, and there are still no takers – and no price drop – for this run-down, dingy, four-bedroom fixer-upper on a 3rd of an acre in Hong Kong. Could it be the seemingly-astronomical $447 million asking price? Probably not. That’s because the 5,700-square-foot tear-down sits on arguably the priciest piece of land on the earth – the gated Middle Gap Road community that’s a part of Hong Kong Island’s the height neighborhood – short for Victoria Peak. Case in point; an empty lot on nearby 75 Peak Road sold, not goodbye ago, for a staggering $657 million, consistent with the important Deal Hong Kong. Even so, $447 million could also be an illusion on behalf of the unknown owner. That said, Christie’s International currently features a listing for a five-bedroom townhouse within the Peak with a $154 million asking. As they assert within the property business: location, location, location. And locations don’t come any longer prestigious than the height, on Hong Kong Island. In most other posh parts of the earth, this unassuming, colonial-style 5,700-square-foot, four-bedroom home inbuilt 1991 wouldn’t get a second glance. But because it’s perched atop the height, comes with views of trouble Bay and is simply a 10-minute drive from Hong Kong’s Central downtown, it’s listed for an unthinkable $447 million. Of course, any buyer will probably have the house torn down and a shiny new mega-mansion built on its third-of-an-acre wooded lot.
most expensive house number 1
The ONE, Bel Air, California
$500 Million
The paint remains drying, and therefore the final landscaping goes in. But the world’s first giga-mansion – The ONE on a Bel-Air hilltop – is finally nearing completion. What hasn’t changed is that eye-watering tag, a staggering $500,000,000 as in half a billion dollars. What that spectacular sum will buy you may be a 100,000-square-feet, 20-bedroom compound perched high above Bel Air on four acres, with spectacular 360-degree uninterrupted views. It’s the creation of movie producer turned prolific land developer Nile Niami and architect Paul McClean, who have taken seven years to construct this ultimate spec-home. Among its multitude of jaw-dropping features; a 5,500-square-feet main bedroom, 30 bathrooms, a 30-car auto ‘gallery’, five swimming pools, 36-seat movies, six-lane bowling alley, and naturally, a nightclub.
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