In fact, a person does not need so much to live - a roof over his head. And besides, not all people are ready to live in houses that are too big. But at the same time, everyone is interested in the large mansions that rich people build for themselves. In this review, the most-most-largest houses in which there would be enough space for more than one family.
1. Pensmore (Highlandville, USA)
The Pensmore Mansion is a residence currently under construction in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri. Due to its extremely remote location and bunker-like walls, this mansion has been the source of numerous conspiracy theories. Because of the huge area of 6700 square meters, it is even called Pensmore Castle. However, concrete tycoon Steven Huff denied that the structure would be anything other than his family's home.
2. Amalienborg (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Amalienborg is the home of the Danish royal family in Copenhagen. Its area is 26,500 square meters.
3. Wentworth Woodhouse (Wentworth, UK)
Apart from the royal residences, it is the largest private mansion in the United Kingdom. It boasts the longest mansion façade in Europe at 185 meters (606 ft).
4. Sirles Castle (Greater Barrington, USA)
This is a French style castle that was built in the 1880s. It has 36 fireplaces and even a real dungeon.
5. Palazzo Pitti (Florence, Italy)
The large Italian mansion, dating from 1458, is today one of the largest museum complexes in Italy. And visitors have a place to roam - the area of galleries and museums is 32,000 square meters.
6. Florham (Madison, USA)
This Vanderbilt estate in Madison, New Jersey was built by Florence Adele Vanderbilt. The 7430 square meter mansion is the 8th largest in the United States. Today it is owned by Fairleigh Dickinson University.
7. Antilla (Mumbai, India)
This private skyscraper mansion in South Mumbai is owned by Mukesh Ambani and is estimated to be the most expensive private residence in the world (more than $1 billion). This private skyscraper has 27 floors and over 600 staff members.
8. Dumbarton Oaks (Washington, USA)
This historic estate in Georgetown, Washington DC is now part of Harvard University. It is so large that the area of its library alone is 4100 square meters.
9. Ralston Hall (Belmont, California)
Originally built by William Chapman Ralston, a San Francisco businessman, Ralston Hall is now part of the University of Notre Dame de Namur. This is a 5100 square meter mansion with 80 rooms on 4 floors.
10. Andrew Carnegie Mansion (Manhattan, New York)
It may be hard to believe, but there actually is a historic mansion in midtown Manhattan - right across from Central Park. The surrounding area was actually named after him - Carnegie Hill. Of course, considering all the surrounding skyscrapers, the Carnegie mansion looks relatively small, but in fact its area is more than 5200 square meters.
11. Whitehall (Palm Beach, Florida)
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, this 5,575 square meter mansion was built by Henry Flagler. Today it houses a museum dedicated to the oil tycoon.
12. Cankaya Mansion (Ankara, Turkey)
A former imperial summer residence, Schönbrunn has been one of Vienna's top attractions since the 1950s. The area of the castle is 31,000 square meters, and more than 2.6 million people visit it every year.
15. Grand Serail / Grand Palace (Beirut, Lebanon)
This huge mansion of 40,000 square meters is located on a hilltop in the center of Beirut. It is the official headquarters of the Prime Minister of Lebanon.
For a person with an average income, buying a small two-room apartment, even with a mortgage, is already a very expensive purchase. But for some people with huge capital, sometimes multi-storey villas seem cramped and uncomfortable.
1. Antilla, Mumbai - The first private home worth over a billion dollars
Mukesh Ambani, CEO of petrochemical giant Reliance Industries, is the fifth richest person in the world and India's richest industrialist with a net worth of $43 billion. This moneybag did not stint on the construction of his "modest" cozy home and built a 27-story skyscraper right in the center of Mumbai!
The construction cost of the building was $2 billion. The tycoon's wife Nita Ambani, once visiting New York, was simply amazed by the beauty of the Asian-style interior at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel and wanted to live in a similar place. Mukesh Ambani could not refuse his beloved wife and fulfilled her request.
The house has an entertainment center, a garden and greenhouse, a large garage for 168 cars and even a room with artificial snow. And all this economy is monitored by a working staff of 600 people.
Source 2Updown Court is a private residence in England worth over $150 million.
Approximately 40 kilometers from London is the luxurious Updown Court estate, built in the 19th century. If you manage to get through the massive iron gates, you will see a huge palace of incredible beauty, but what surprises visitors the most is the cost of this fabulous house.
Those wishing to purchase property will have to be prepared to part with a tidy sum of 85 million pounds (approximately $150 million). The mansion has 103 rooms, five pools and a beautiful mosaic floor.
There are fields for playing squash, there is a bowling alley, a tennis court. And if friends unexpectedly come to you in a crowd, you can all watch a movie together in a cinema for 50 spectators, enjoying collection wine from a large wine cellar.
The access road to the building is lined with marble and equipped with heating, and a helipad has been built for amateur pilots.
And finally, 8 large-sized limousines can be quite comfortably located in the underground garage. By the way, the Queen of Great Britain and Sir Elton John will become the neighbors of the lucky person who bought this home.
Undoubtedly, the Updown Court estate is one of the most expensive houses in the world.
3. American "Versailles" in Florida - the largest private mansion ever built in the United States
The huge mansion, built on the model of the Palace of Versailles in France, is located about 30 kilometers from the city of Orlando. The estate was built by tycoon David Siegel at the request of his wife Jacqueline, a former beauty queen.
The mansion has 30 bedrooms, its own bowling alley and an Olympic-sized pool. More than $3 million worth of handcrafted windows offer stunning views of Lake Butler. There is a children's theater and a huge banquet hall. The large garage can easily fit 20 cars.
For outdoor enthusiasts, there are two tennis courts, three swimming pools and a baseball field. The estate has 23 bathrooms, 10 spacious kitchens and a two-story wine cellar. The cost of this very expensive home is $75 million, but real estate experts estimate that the future owner will still have to invest at least $25 million in repairs.
But this stunning home is worth it, isn't it?
4. Fleur-de-lis Mansion in Beverly Hills, Mariah Carey's cozy nest
American singer Mariah Carey confirmed the truth that a beautiful woman should also have a beautiful house, buying an elite mansion Fleur-de-lis (lily flower) in Beverly Hills for $125 million.
At the beginning of the century, this house was built by Texas billionaire David Saperstein.
On the territory of 5 acres, there is a real palace in the French style, with an area of more than 3000 meters. Around the mansion are ornamental gardens and neatly trimmed lawns, next to it is not a small manager's house and living quarters for working staff for 10 people.
The estate has a chic spa, a huge swimming pool, and the interior decoration of the house is made in the French style and is not inferior in luxury to the interior of the royal palaces. The house even has a small theater designed for 50 spectators. Mariah Carey is not only a great singer and a stunningly seductive woman, with this purchase she proved that she knows a lot about really luxurious things.
5. Hearst Mansion, Beverly Hills
The insanely luxurious and equally insanely expensive Hearst mansion was put up for sale at a fabulous price of $165 million, making it one of the most expensive homes on the planet in this ranking.
The estate was once owned by newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, the prototype for the protagonist of Orson Welles' classic Citizen Kane.
The house has 29 bedrooms, on the estate there are 3 swimming pools, a tennis court, a cinema and a nightclub. Mr. Hearst bought this mansion in 1947 for $120,000, and the real owner, who bought the building from Hearst in 1976, raised the price several dozen times.
By the way, you could see this house directed by Francis Coppola, in the scene where the intractable Hollywood director, Italian gangsters throw the head of a severed horse into the bed.
6. Acqua Liana Mansion in Florida - Luxurious and Expensive Eco-Style Home
Frank Mackini, renowned real estate designer, created this luxury eco-friendly mansion inspired by his travels to Fiji, Bali and Tahiti. This is a truly clean, ecological housing with a magnificent interior. The three-story building rises 23 meters above sea level and is located on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. The house has 7 bedrooms, 11 bathrooms, 2 glass elevators and a spacious 10-meter kitchen.
Near this very expensive house, in an area the size of a baseball field, solar panels have been installed that power the mansion with electricity that would be enough to power two medium-sized houses.
The water system is built in such a way that it collects fresh water from streams and fills a medium-sized pool, water is replaced every 14 days, and a unique lighting system reduces electricity consumption by 70% compared to conventional mansions of this class.
Without a doubt, in such a chic mansion, the main "bumps" of Green Peace would like to live.
7. Villa Leopold, France
The magnificent, luxurious and fantastically expensive Villa Leopold (cost $ 750 million), was built in the idyllic, Mediterranean city of Villefranche-sur-Mer, in southern France in 1902, for King Leopold II of Belgium. The estate is just huge, just imagine, 50 gardeners look after the luxurious garden full time!
Visitors can enjoy the fresh sea air while walking among 1,200 cypress, olive, lemon and orange trees.
According to rumors, in 2008, the owner of the estate Lilia Safra (wife of the late Lebanese-Syrian businessman Edmond Safra) decided to sell the estate. The buyer was to be our billionaire and oligarch Mikhail Prokhorov, who contributed 10% of the down payment of $75 million.
But after the global financial crisis hit the entire world economic system, Prokhorov decided to refuse to buy a mansion. However, according to a court decision in Nice, the 10% contribution to the billionaire was not returned, since according to French law, buyers lose their deposits if they refuse to deal.
8 America's Most Expensive Oceanfront Estate
Have you always dreamed of living on the ocean, but in your pocket of money “chickens do not peck”? Then take a look at the estate of the American Ziff family, which they recently put up for sale. This wonderful home is located in a heavenly place, on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, on the peninsula of the municipality of Manalapan, the famous Palm Beach district in Florida.
The architecture of this "beach house" triumphantly combines the elegance of the Old World and classicism, with modern conveniences of the 21st century. The mansion has 14 bedrooms, 24 bathrooms, a garage for 18 cars, a giant master bedroom with a huge bathroom. Also in the house there are two elevators, a gym with a beauty salon, a pool with sharks, a casino and a bar.
There is a bowling alley, a tennis court and a go-kart race track in the surrounding area. Oh yes, I forgot to clarify. The cost of this most expensive home in America is "only" $ 200 million.
Many periodically dream of their own glamorous home in a beautiful place. Someone wants to have a large home theater, gym or swimming pool in it, and someone wants a huge bathroom and living room. We suggest that you familiarize yourself with the review of elite houses, the interior, premises and interior decorations of which are simply amazing. This material presents the most expensive houses in the world.
Palace of Leopold
This palace was designed and built during the reign of the King of Belgium - Leopold II, at the beginning of the 20th century on the French Riviera.
Today Villa Leopolda is valued at as much as $736 million. This grandiose building has 19 bedrooms, a swimming pool and a huge garden. There are hundreds of workers in the mansion who keep order and housekeeping. The estate is truly large: over a thousand cypresses, olives, orange and lemon trees grow on its territory.
At one time, Russian oligarch Mikhail Prokhorov intended to purchase this mansion for 370 million euros, but soon changed his mind. The owner of the villa, Lily Safra, refused to return Prokhorov's first installment of 37 million euros. The French court took her side in this matter. In addition, the oligarch was awarded an additional payment for Ms. Safra of 1.5 million euros for damages. They say that later another Russian businessman, D. Rybolovlev, bought the villa, but he did not confirm this information. As a result, it was announced that the transaction took place, and the villa was sold for a record amount of $ 750 million, but the name of the new owner remained a mystery.
Antilla
Located in the city of Mumbai (India), the Antilia skyscraper does not correspond to the usual notions of what is possible to have in a house and how it should look. This skyscraper consists of 27 floors, the building has a 6-story parking lot for 168 cars, one of the floors is completely occupied by a jacuzzi, there is a gym, a "cooling room", a dance floor, several floors with sleeping quarters and bathrooms, and even a 4-story garden.
The architectural basis of the building is a traditional Hindu interior and design system that promotes the movement of positive energy. Each of the floors has not only an individual design, but also a completely unusual set of materials, each of the rooms is amazing in its own way.
The house has everything you can imagine, because it is one of the most unusual structures in the world.
The cost of this elite skyscraper is 1 billion dollars. Its proud owner is Mukesh Ambani, India's most famous business tycoon and billionaire.
Residence of the Queen of England
Buckingham Palace is the London residence of British monarchs. It became the legal seat of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, immediately after her coronation. Today it is the most expensive house in the world, or rather, in Europe. Its estimated cost is $1.5 billion.
As you can easily guess - Buckingham Palace has never been put up for sale. But it is possible to admire it completely freely from August to September, at which time it is specially opened for visits.
Scala Number 7
Residential complex Skala Number 7 is located in the resort area "Big Sky" (Big Sky), Montana, USA. Its cost is estimated at 155 million dollars.
Scala is owned by the Yellowstone Ski Resort. This complex is designed for very rich, elite clients. The house is equipped with many amenities - underfloor heating, multiple pools, a gym, a wine cellar and even its own cable car. The owners of the complex are Edra and Tim Blixeth. Tim Blixeth became a co-founder of the Yellowstone Club, but the club's bankruptcy, divorce and other hardships in recent years have dealt a big blow to his well-being.
Elena Franchuk Villa, London
Elena Franchuk, a well-known figure, a citizen of Ukraine, daughter of the former president of the country, Leonid Kuchma, recently bought this villa in London for 80 million pounds. This house is absolutely luxurious and probably worth the money. This five-story structure has ten bedrooms, two swimming pools, a home cinema room, a sauna, an office and a gym.
Over the years of its existence, the villa has been reconstructed many times, for which millions of dollars have been spent in total.
Hearst Mansion
This famous Hollywood mansion was once owned by the eminent publishing magnate Randolph Hearst.
Hearst Castle has 29 bedrooms, a huge library, a circular balcony, a room for playing billiards. The master bedroom has its own access to the terrace, which can accommodate up to 400 people.
Directly on the site of the estate there are 3 swimming pools, a cinema hall, a tennis court and a nightclub.
The cost of this luxurious building is 135 million dollars.
Hala Ranch
This luxurious mansion is located in Aspen, Colorado, USA. To date, its declared value is $821 million.
It used to be the most expensive home in the world for sale in the United States of America. It was sold in 2006 by the prince of Saudi Arabia - Bandar bin Sultan. The estate was then valued at just $135 million. Since then, everything has changed, its price has increased 6 times. Today the owner of the house is John Paulson.
The main building of the house has 15 bedrooms and 16 bathrooms. Also on the territory of the mansion there are several office buildings with modern equipment for water purification, gas supply systems and other important amenities.
Allison Villa
The Ellison Mansion is a whole complex of 10 buildings scattered over an area of over 9 hectares.
In addition to living quarters, the complex has an artificially made lake, a small pond with Chinese carps, a tea house and a bathing house. The owner of this architectural masterpiece is Larry Ellison, one of the owners of Oracle.
Today, the mansion is valued at $200 million.
Hariri Mansion
The Hariri Mansion, located in the capital of England - London, consists of 7 floors, on which 45 bedrooms are created. You can invite all friends, relatives and relatives to such a house, and there will still be a place in it. But this is not the only advantage of the mansion, the glass in the windows of the house is bulletproof, and the kitchen is completely decorated with gilding, including all utensils, which is very beautiful and aesthetically pleasing.
Initially, it was not a single building, but 4 separate houses, but they were sold as a single unit.
To date, the Hariri mansion is one of the largest and most expensive houses in the UK, its cost is 300 million pounds.
House in Switzerland
Let's move on to the most recognized exclusive building. Successful English designer - Stuart Hughes presented the most expensive house in the world, created according to his own design. In this case, he was assisted by Kevin Huber. As a result, the price of this small but exclusive house in Switzerland was more than 12 billion dollars. This figure beat all the most famous expensive houses in the world in its magnitude.
This price is justified, more than 200 tons of various precious metals were used to create this masterpiece. The interior of the house is made using such rare materials as dinosaur bones and parts of a meteorite.
The area of this house is relatively small - only 725 square meters. The building has a large view terrace with a swimming pool, with a total area of almost 390 square meters, and under it there is an underground parking for 4 cars and a typical wine cellar for these places.
There are few rooms in the house, there are only 8 of them, but they all have a very original and unusual finish. The living room in the villa is decorated with meteorite fragments, mostly for the bar furniture.
The floor coverings in the house are made using Tyrannosaurus rex bone shavings. More than 200 tons of expensive metals - gold, platinum, silver - were used in the decor of the villa.
Who is the owner of the most expensive house in the world, unfortunately, is unknown. Rumor has it that the house was built by order of a very wealthy resident of Switzerland, who wished to remain anonymous. On this project, as mentioned above, the designer Stuart Hughes worked, but all the construction work was carried out under the direction of Kevin Huber.
A little more than 5 years were spent on recreating the most expensive house. The exact location of this house is not known.
Conclusion
Houses of high-ranking persons are expensive, chic and exclusive. But all our ideas about a very expensive home are incomparable with the range of real estate prices presented in this selection. After all, according to this information, the most expensive house in the world costs fabulous money.
Times magazine has prepared its own ranking of the 10 most expensive mansions. All of them are insanely luxurious and expensive and seem out of this world. And only three out of ten properties are not in the US or the UK…
However, the most expensive house in the world at the moment is the 27-storey Antilla mansion in India. No two floors are the same in the mansion - each is made of different materials, and lush gardens grow on each level. The price for it is more than $1 billion.
The house in Mumbai is owned by Indian billionaires Mukesh and Nita Ambani. The area of the mansion is more than 3700 square meters. On the roof is a helipad. The tower is 165 meters high, made mostly of glass.
There are nine elevators in the entrance hall: two of them lead to a 6-storey garage with a capacity of 168 cars, three to the guest part of the house, which occupies about a quarter of the building, two to the members of the Ambani family in their quarters and two to the staff (building serves 600 people). In the reception hall, the ceiling is 80% occupied by crystal chandeliers.
Two silver staircases lead to the center of the hall, beyond which two carved doors open to reveal the artwork behind them. There is also a stage for performances by artists and speeches. The kitchen is not inferior in size to the reception hall and can feed several hundred guests at once.
There are indoor and outdoor bars, "green areas" and "suite room" for the rest of the guards and assistants. In addition to exclusively residential premises, the residence will have a fitness club, a swimming pool, a jacuzzi, yoga and dance rooms, a solarium, a gym, as well as an “ice room”, where the owner with his family and guests can take a break from the Indian heat and enjoy the northern freshness. and artificial snow.
Under the second number was the villa "Leopolda", estimated at about 506-750 million dollars and located in the French city of Villefranche-sur-Mer, on the French Riviera. The cream-colored manor, standing on a 20-acre garden area, got its name from King Leopold II of Belgium, who at the beginning of the 20th century bought a plot of land between Nice and Monaco to build a summer palace.
It was built in 1902 for the Belgian King Leopold II. Later in 1916, his nephew and heir, King Albert I, converted the villa into a hospital for officers wounded during the First World War.
However, Leopold died, and the new owner of the site, Ogden Codman, adapted the land for his villa, which he built in 1931. Later, the villa was bought by the famous Angelli (founder of Fiat).
The owners of the villa changed, but the mansion gained the greatest popularity during the lifetime of the banker Edmond Safra, who loved to throw parties here and host celebrities. The guests of the residence were such people as singer Frank Sinatra (Frank Sinatra) and US President Ronald Reagan (Ronald Reagan) with his wife.
In August 2008, the previous owner, Lilia Safra, widow of Edmond Safra (Edmond Safra is a Syrian businessman, a well-known Jewish philanthropist who suffered from Parkinson's disease for a long time. He died from a bandit bullet - during an attack on December 3, 1999 in Monte Carlo in his own two-story The specialists were sure that the nurse who was constantly caring for the ailing tycoon was to blame.), finally, she decided to sell it to the new Russian owner.
The estate is so large that 50 full-time gardeners are required to maintain the park, providing Leopolda's landscape and park beauty. The area of the park is 8 hectares, and visitors can walk among 1,200 trees of olives, oranges, lemons and cypresses. House with an area of about 2690 sq.m. contains 11 bedrooms and 14 bathrooms, a sauna and an indoor pool, sports fields, a bowling alley, several kitchens and dining rooms, a cinema, living rooms. Long stairs lead down to clipped lawns, a swimming pool and the Mediterranean Sea.
The owner of the house could be Russian tycoon Mikhail Prokhorov, who wanted to buy a house for 370 million euros. Former head of Norilsk Nickel, the world's largest producer of nickel and palladium, and current chairman of Polyus Gold, Russia's largest gold producer. In August 2008, the parties entered into a deal under which Mikhail Prokhorov undertook to purchase the estate for 370 million euros. The hostess received a 10% deposit - 39.4 million euros.
However, he backed out of the deal and, by court order, forfeited his €39.4 million deposit he paid in 2009 as security for the most expensive villa in the world. In addition, the court ordered Prokhorov to pay an additional 1.5 million euros in damages for losses incurred due to the failure of the transaction.
Villa - located between Nice and Monaco, on the shores of the Villefranche Bay on Cap Ferrat, which has become one of the most popular in the world in terms of investing in real estate. Not long ago, a local newspaper cited legal sources and claimed that 60 of the villas or mansions on Cap Ferrat now belong to the Russians.
The third was a London penthouse in the number one house in Hyde Park, built as a home for the rich and famous. The property was recently sold for $220 million, making it the most expensive apartment in the world.
The penthouse is equipped with a special safe room (where the owners can hide in case of an attack or other emergencies - an absolutely isolated and protected shelter room with autonomous air conditioning, a power supply and life support system, an independent telephone line that cannot be cut or disconnected, a supply of food, water) , bulletproof glass, and secret evacuation tunnels next to the Mandarin Hotel. The apartment also has six bedrooms, several bathrooms, a wine tasting room. And to heat such an unusual house, it is used.
The house offers 24 hour room service. The guard is made up of former members of the SAS, an elite unit of the British military. The house complex includes a 22-meter ozone pool, two fitness rooms, two saunas, a squash court, a golf simulator, two yoga rooms, a SPA center, and a private cinema.
It will be possible to use wine cellars and pantries, a tasting room, meeting rooms and lounges. Separate entrances and stairs are provided for residents and service personnel. Only 27 specialists will serve the residents of One Hyde Park, but they will be able to provide almost any necessary service, from car parking to computer repair.
In fourth place is the Fairfield estate in the Hamptons. This is the estate of Ira Rennert (shun publicity, billionaire owner, founder of the Renco Group of Companies), which is considered the largest residential complex in the United States. Fairfield is 25.5 hectares, with buildings covering 10,000 square meters, including the main house of 6,000 square meters.
The main building contains a dining room 30 meters long, 29 bedrooms and 39 bathrooms. Fairfield, named after the nearby Fairfield Pond, also contains a bowling alley, tennis and squash courts, and a heated pool. Now the property is valued at about $170,000,000-180,000,000.
Number five is the Hearst estate in Beverly Hills ($165 million). Previously owned by media mogul William Randolph Hearst (William Randolph Hearst). The estate was built in 1926. This complex appeared in the frames of the movie "The Godfather" and within these walls John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier spent their honeymoon in 1953. The house has 29 bedrooms, and on the adjacent territory there are three swimming pools, a disco and a theater.
The sixth position was taken by "Villa Franchuk" in British Kensington, the price of this property is 161 million dollars. The 5-story mansion has 10 bedrooms, an underground indoor pool and a cinema.
Until 1997, this Victorian villa was occupied by a preparatory school for girls. And in 2006, the building was bought by the founder of the Antispeed Foundation, Elena Franchuk, the daughter of the ex-president of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma.
Finished seventh was The Pinnacle ski lodge in Montana, which is valued at $155 million. The owner of this "small" ski house with 10 bedrooms with an area of almost 5 thousand square meters. meters - billionaire Tim Blixseth (Tim Blixseth). In the dwelling, equipped on a land plot of 64 hectares, heated floors function - even the access road warms up.
Each bathroom has a fireplace. In addition, the host boasts a wine cellar for 8,000 bottles of wine, a gym, an indoor pool and a massage room. And on the street, next to the helipad, there is a private cable car for skiers, 4 guest houses and outdoor pools.
Located in the private ski and golf community "Yellowstone Club", where only billionaires are allowed.
Further, at number eight, the Manor Estate in Los Angeles is located on a plot of land of 1.88 hectares. It is estimated at 150 million dollars.
It has 123 rooms, an indoor ice rink, several swimming pools, three kitchens, sports courts, a private garden and a bowling alley. Los Angeles estate built for Aaron and Cindy Spelling in 1991. Some of the rooms are used for not so ordinary purposes: for example, a doll museum, a special room for gift wrapping and an entire storage floor.
Penultimate in the top ten estate "Updown Court» (Updown Court) in Windlesham, Surrey (UK) is worth 139 million dollars. Its area is 3.7 thousand square meters. meters, which exceeds the size of one of the most famous buildings in the world - Buckingham Palace.
The house has 123 rooms, including 22 bedrooms with 24 carat gold leaf mosaic floors, 27 bathrooms, its own 50-person cinema, bowling alley, movie theater, squash, five pools, and a heated marble driveway and staircase modeled after the one created by at the Gianni Versace mansion in Miami.
A marble driveway and a chic staircase lead to the mansion. The size of the house exceeds Buckingham Palace: its area is 3.7 thousand square meters. meters.
And, finally, the outsider of the prestigious ten - "Dracula's Castle" (Bran Castle, Dracula "s Castle) in Romania - $ 135 million. The castle was built at the end of the 14th century by local residents on their own and at their own expense, for which they were freed from paying taxes to the state treasury for several centuries.
It has no central heating and only 57 rooms, including 17 bedrooms, furnished with various antiques: Romanian and foreign medieval furniture, as well as collections of weapons and armor.
The castle was put up for sale in 2009. Despite the beautiful views around and the rich history, covered with mysticism, it is not as spacious as those mentioned. Nowadays, the castle is a monument of architecture, which houses a museum of history and medieval art.
The most expensive apartment on the secondary elite housing market in Moscow in August 2010 was sold for 1.287 billion rubles (42.3 million dollars). The total area of a two-level 7-room apartment is 846 square meters.
The apartment with access to the roof has been exclusively renovated in a classic style. Expensive housing is located in an elite house in the Swedish dead end (Tverskoy Boulevard area). The residential complex for 28 apartments, built in 2002, has a fenced area with its own garden. The residential complex is guarded by employees of the Federal Security Service.
Fabulously expensive and luxurious houses amaze and amaze with their splendor! And their owners are often not always in sight. Everyone knows who is the owner of Buckingham Palace, but do you know, for example, the name of the Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani - the owner of luxury apartments or designers Kevin Huber and Stuart Hughes, who created the most expensive house in the world? Probably not everyone has heard these names.
Chalet in Switzerland - $12.2 billion
The most expensive home today is a chalet in Switzerland - its cost is 12.2 billion dollars! This luxury home was built according to the concept of world-famous designers Kevin Huber and Stuart Hughes.
However, such a huge cost of the house can be partially justified. Just imagine that almost 200 tons of precious metals were used in its construction. When decorating the interior of the chalet, dinosaur bones and meteorites were used. Luxurious housing was built in high-tech style: the house has 8 rooms, a wine cellar and an underground garage for. Its total area is 725 square meters. And it is located in the foothills of the Alps on a vast territory with a total area of 3.5 hectares!
Antilla in India - $1 billion
One of the world's richest men, Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani owns the $1 billion Antilla mansion. A chic mansion, 173 meters high, is built of glass. The area of the house is 3716 square meters. The project of each floor was developed separately and each of them has its own design and decoration.
The six-story underground garage of the owner of the mansion is full of cars. A helipad has been built on the roof of the house. Inside, housing is like a mini-city: with a bar, a fitness club, gym and dance halls, a jacuzzi and a swimming pool. The house has many exotic rooms, for example, such as "Ice" - with artificial snow and ice.
There are six hundred servants serving the mansion!
Fairfield, New York - $248 million
Fairfield Manor in Sagaponack, New York, is owned by American investor and businessman Ira Rennert. This property is one of the largest in America, worth $248 million.
The mansion is located on an area of 5759 square meters. The luxury apartments have 29 bathrooms and 39 bedrooms. The dining room alone is 27.7 meters long.
Also on the estate there is a bowling alley, a theater with 164 seats and a garage for 100 cars.
Park Place in the UK - $218 million
Five years ago, Russian economist and businessman Andrei Borodin bought one of the UK's most expensive mansions for $218 million, Park Place.
It is located in the county of Berkshire, and was built in the 18th century.
The estate covers an area of 2728 square meters, in addition, monuments, cottages, stables and a boat shed are built on an area of 81 hectares.
The Manor, California - $150 million
Today, Spelling Manor is owned by the daughter of Formula One racing mogul Bernie Ecclestone, Petra Stant. Incredible-sized mansion with adjoining outbuildings is located in Los Angeles.
At auction in 2009, its value was $ 150 million. On the territory of the estate, a mansion with an area of 5202 square meters was erected, which was built in the French style. The house has 123 rooms, as well as parking for 100 cars.
Rancho Hala in the USA - $135 million
Former Saudi Ambassador to the United States, Prince Bandar ibn Sultan ibn Abdul Aziz, owns a massive $135 million ranch. The luxurious estate consists of the main house, as well as several buildings: stables, swimming pools, tennis courts, waterfalls, ski slopes and golf courses.
The interior of the house is decorated with mahogany, each room has a separate environment. There are 15 bedrooms, including separate ones for the owners, and each living room front door opens onto a courtyard with a pool and a waterfall. The estate has many SPA rooms, as well as 27 bathrooms.
Fleur de Lis Mansion, California — $125 million
The Fleur de Lis residence in Los Angeles covers an area of 4180 square meters! This mansion was built in 2002. According to one version, it belongs to a French billionaire who bought it in 2014 for $ 125 million, moreover, paid in cash!
The estate has 12 bedrooms, 15 bathrooms, a 50-seat theatre, ballroom, pool house, jogging track, tennis courts and more.
Rybolovlev's estate – $95 million
Rybolovlev's estate is considered the most expensive house ever shared by former spouses during the divorce process. The estate, located on the territory of 2.5 hectares on the ocean coast in Palm Beach, was demanded as compensation by the ex-wife of billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, Elena.
Russian entrepreneur Dmitry Rybolovlev bought the estate from billionaire Donald Trump for $95 million. It has 15 bedrooms, 15 bathrooms and 8 toilets.
Also in the chic mansion there is a beauty salon, a ballroom and a gym, a home pool, a 30 m long pool and one of the largest kitchens in the world.
The estate has a huge collection of works of art - the art gallery has works by Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Claude Monet.
The estate also has a private beach with a length of 145 m, a garage for 48 cars, two guest houses and tennis courts.
