The internet is filled with influencers and celebrities telling the world about their accommodations and achievements but did you know that the most expensive house in the world is located in London, Buckingham Palace? It’s no surprise that it’s owned by the royal family and is worth more than $1 billion.
While the second most expensive house in the world is in India and belongs to Mukesh Ambani. Antilia in Cumballa Hills in Mumbai, the 27-storey House was built in 2010 at an estimated cost of $1-2 billion.
Ambani’s Antilia is actually the most expensive private residence in the world because Buckingham Palace is a Crown property.
Let’s take a look at the 10 most expensive houses in the world below to know more!
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1. Buckingham Palace | London, UK
Although Buckingham Palace is technically a property of the United Kingdom, it tops the list of the most expensive homes in the world.
The house includes 775 rooms, 188 staff rooms, including 52 bedrooms for royals and guests, 92 offices, 78 bathrooms and 19 staterooms.
2. Antilia | Mumbai, India
Second place was awarded to Mukesh Ambani’s 400,000 square foot Antilia.
The expensive mansion on Cumballa Hills in Mumbai is located at one of the most expensive addresses in the world called Altamount Road. The house was designed by Chicago-based architects Perkins and Will and Australian-based construction company Leighton Holdings.
The house has 27 floors, extremely high ceilings and each floor is equivalent to an average floor of a two-story building.
The villa is capable of surviving an earthquake measuring 8 on the Richter scale. The building has six floors dedicated to cars, including Ambani’s Mercedes Maybach worth INR 5 billion.
3. Villa Leopolda | Cote D’Azure, France
This mansion belonging to Brazilian philanthropist and widow of Lebanese banker William Safra has had several notable owners including Gianni and Marella Agnelli, Izaak and Dorothy J. Killam, and since 1987.
Lily Safra inherited the mansion after her husband passed away, and her 50-acre estate includes a massive greenhouse, a swimming pool and pool house, an outdoor kitchen, a helipad and a guest house.
In Alfred Hitchcock’s classic To Catch a Thief, this house was used as a setting.
4. Villa Les Cèdres | French Riviera
Villa Les Cèdres in the French Riviera costs no less than 410 million USD. The palace-like villa was built for the King of Belgium in 1830.
The 18,000-square-foot house has 14 bedrooms, an Olympic-sized swimming pool, and a wood-paneled library containing 3,000 books on flora and naturalism (including a 1640 edition of a real code of laws). animals), an artificial pond planted with Amazon lilies. pad, bronze statue of Athena, chandelier-lit ballroom, stables large enough for 30 horses, grand drawing room, 19th-century portraits in ornate frames, and beautiful woodwork throughout throughout.
5. Fairfield Four Lakes | Sagaponack, New York
Four Fairfield Pond located in Sagaponack, New York is owned by Ira Renner, owner of the Renco Corporation.
She holds the company with investments in auto manufacturing and metallurgy.
The 63-acre fifth-rate home has 29 bedrooms, its own power plant, 39 bathrooms, a basketball court, a bowling alley, a squash court, a tennis court, three swimming pools and a 91-foot yard. dining room.
6. Ellison Real Estate | Forest, California
This 23-acre property is owned by Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison. The complex has 10 buildings, a human pond, a koi pond, a teahouse and a bathhouse. Although the purchase of the Hawaiian island of Lanai in 2012 was his largest overall investment to date, Ellison has made several blockbuster purchases in the past two decades.
7. Palace of Love | Beverly Hills, California
Real estate businessman Jeff Greene is an American politician who owns the 53,000 square meter Mediterranean-style villa Palazzo di, Amore.
The 7th-floor house has 12 bedrooms, 23 bathrooms, tennis court, swimming pool, theater, waterfall, theater, reflecting pool and a 27-car garage, but it’s also a party venue —with a revolving dance floor and ballroom. The asking price of the relisted property in the sale was approximately $129 million in 2017.
8. Seven Pinnacles | Big Sky, Montana
The house on the eighth floor is owned by Edra and timber baron Tim Blixseth, one
part of the larger Yellowstone Club.
The house has heated floors, multiple pools, a gym, a wine cellar and its own ski lift.
9. Xanadu 2.0 | Medina, Washington
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Melinda’s home, Xanadu 2.0 in Medina, Washington, ranks 9th on our list of the world’s most expensive homes. The house is 66,000 square meters and costs $63 million.
Xanadu 2.0 is an ‘earth-sheltered’ home, meaning it’s built into its surroundings to regulate temperature more effectively. It has a 60-foot swimming pool located in a separate 3,900-square-foot building. In addition, the house also has a 2,100 square meter library with a dome and two secret bookcases.
10. 18-19 Kensington Palace Gardens | London
In tenth place are 18-19 Kensington Palace Gardens in London, designed by Philip Hardwick for Sutherland Hall, and the first tenant was civil engineer James Meadows Rendel. The house has 12 bedrooms, Turkish baths, indoor swimming pool and parking for 20 cars.
Previous owners of this most expensive house in the world include the de Rothschild family (early 1900s); Free Poles (1939–45); David Khalili, art dealer (1995–2001); and Bernie Ecclestone, head of Formula 1 (2001–2004), and Indian billionaire Lakshmi Mittal.
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