Many periodically dream of their own glamorous house in a beautiful place. Someone wants to have a large home theater, gym or pool in it, and someone has a huge bathroom and a living room. We offer to get acquainted with the overview of elite houses, the interior, premises and interior of which are simply amazing. This material presents the most expensive homes in the world.
Leopold Palace
This palace was designed and built under the King of Belgium - Leopold II, at the beginning of the 20th century on the French Riviera.
Today Villa Leopold is valued at as much as $ 736 million. This grandiose building has 19 bedrooms, a swimming pool and a huge garden. In the mansion there are hundreds of workers who monitor the order and economy. The estate is truly large in size: over a thousand cypresses, olives, orange and lemon trees grow on its territory.
At one time, the Russian oligarch Mikhail Prokhorov intended to acquire this mansion for 370 million euros, but soon changed his mind. The owner of the villa - Lily Safra refused to return the first installment of Prokhorov in the amount of 37 million euros. The French court took her side in this matter. In addition, the oligarch was assigned an additional payment for Ms. Safra of 1.5 million euros for damage. They say that later the villa was purchased by another Russian businessman, D. Rybolovlev, but he did not confirm this information. As a result, it was announced that the deal had taken 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 at all correspond to the usual concepts 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 fully occupied by a jacuzzi, there is a gym, a cooling room, a dance floor, several floors with sleeping rooms and bathrooms, and even a 4-story garden.
The architectural basis of the building is a traditional Hindu system of interior and design that promotes the movement of positive energy. Each floor has not only an individual design, but also a completely unusual set of materials, each of the rooms is surprising in its own way.
The house has everything you can imagine, because it represents one of the most unusual structures in the world.
The cost of this elite skyscraper is $ 1 billion. Its proud owner is Mukesh Ambani, India's most famous business tycoon and billionaire.
Queen's residence
Buckingham Palace is the London residence of the British monarchs. He 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 to admire it is possible quite freely in the period from August to September, at which time it is specially open for visits.
Scala Number 7
The 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 Yellowstone Ski Resort. This complex is designed for very wealthy, elite customers. The house is equipped with many amenities - underfloor heating, many pools, a gym, a wine cellar and even its own funicular.The owners of the complex are Edra and Tim Blixet. Tim Blixet became the co-founder of the Yellowstone Club, but the bankruptcy of the club, divorce, and other hardships in life have dealt a major blow to his welfare in recent times.
Villa Elena Franchuk, London
Elena Franchuk, a well-known activist, a citizen of Ukraine, the 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 building has ten bedrooms, two swimming pools, a home cinema, 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.
Hurst Mansion
This famous mansion, located in Hollywood, in the past belonged to the eminent publishing business magnate - Randolph Hearst.
Hurst 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 estate site there are 3 swimming pools, a cinema hall, a tennis court and a night club.
The cost of this gorgeous building is 135 million dollars.
Hala Ranch
This chic mansion is located in Aspen, Colorado, USA. To date, its declared value is $ 821 million.
It used to be the most expensive house 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 only 135 million dollars. Since then, everything has changed, its price has increased 6 times. Today, the owner of the house is John Paulson.
The main building 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.
Ellison's Villa
Ellison's 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 estimated at $ 200 million.
Hariri Mansion
Hariri Mansion, located in the capital of England - London, consists of 7 floors, on which 45 bedrooms are created. In such a house you can invite all friends, relatives and relatives and in it, anyway, there will be a place. But this is not the only advantage of the mansion, the glass in the windows of the house is bulletproof, and the kitchen is fully 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 whole.
Today, Hariri's mansion is one of the largest and most expensive houses in the UK, worth 300 million pounds.
House in Switzerland
Let's move on to the most recognized exclusive building. A successful English designer, Stuart Hughes, introduced the most expensive house in the world, created on his own project. In this matter, he was assisted by Kevin Huber. As a result, the price of this small but exclusive house in Switzerland amounted to more than $ 12 billion. This figure has beaten in size all the most famous expensive houses in the world.
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 rare materials such as dinosaur bones and meteorite parts.
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 all of them have a very original and unusual finish. The living room in the villa is decorated with fragments of a meteorite, for the most part it concerns the furniture of the bar.
The flooring in the house is made using tyrannosaurus bone shavings. The villa’s decor was used more than 200 tons of expensive metals - gold, platinum, silver.
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. The designer Stuart Hughes worked on this project, as mentioned above, and all construction work was carried out under the direction of Kevin Huber.
It took a little more than 5 years to recreate the most expensive home. The exact location of this house is not known.
Conclusion
Homes of dignitaries are expensive, chic and exclusive. But all our ideas about a very expensive home are incomparable with the range of property prices presented in this collection. After all, according to this information, the most expensive house in the world costs fabulous money.
