These homes are obtainable only to the extremely rich.
Location: Hampsted, London, England%0A\r\nEstimated Value: $64,000,000%0D\r\nFeatures: It’s 33,000 sqare feet with a Turkish bath, glass elevator, swimming pool with a glass bridge, an 80 foot ballroom, 7 bedrooms, and 7 kitchens.
Location: Bel-Air, California\r\nEstimated Value: $72,000,000\r\nFeatures: 48,000 square feet with 10 bedrooms, 14 bathrooms, and a 280 degree view of the city and surrounding mountains.
Location: Kensington Palace Gardens, London, England\r\nEstimated Value: $72,000,000\r\nFeatures: The first of two London mansions on this list purchased by F1 billionaire Bernie Ecclestone for his two daughters.
Location: Mallorca, Spain\r\nEstimated Value: $74,000,000\r\nFeatures: This one’s got a helipad, tennis court, spa, guest house, elevator, and a bunch of bedrooms and bathrooms.
Location: New York City\r\nEstimated Value: $75,000,000\r\nFeatures: neo-renaissance home with limestone facade has 21,000 square feet spread out over five stories, plus a private garden…in Manhattan.
Location: Simi Valley, California\r\nEstimated Value: $75,000,000\r\nFeatures: it’s a 123-acre “equestrian estate” with a 17,000 mansion with 6 guest houses, 10 staff houses, a helipad, and of course equestrian facilities…so you better like horses.
Location: Cap d’Ail, France\r\nEstimated Value: $76,000,000\r\nFeatures: the mansion is nice—with its 9 master suites, indoor pool, and sauna—but most of that three quarters of a billion pays for the terraced garden with view of the French riviera.
Location: London, England\r\nEstimated Value: $87,000,000\r\nFeatures: Obviously Bernie Ecclestone loves his daughter Petra more than his daughter Tamara, since he bought her the more expensive London mansion.
Location: London, England\r\nEstimated Value: $89,000,000\r\nFeatures: 53,000 square feet, and used to belong to Bernie Ecclestone. Apparently he bought it, but his wife didn’t like it so she refused to move in—which is a shame, because they could have been neighbors with daughter Petra.
Location: Palm Beach, Florida\r\nEstimated Value: $95,000,000\r\nFeatures: Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev bought this oceanfront estate with 475 feet of private beach on the Atlantic from American billionaire Donald Trump. Now it’s locked in limbo and falling into disrepair thanks to Rybolovlev’s nasty divorce.
Location: Charlottesville, Virginia\r\nEstimated Value: $100,000,000\r\nFeatures: situated on 300 hundred acres, but your neighbors are the Jeffersons. (As in the Thomas Jeffersons—the founding father’s famous and historic Monticello estate is right next door.)
Location: Lake Tahoe, Nevada\r\nEstimated Value: $100,000,000\r\nFeatures: 20,000 square feet and modeled after a northern European mountain home, this thing has a 3,500 bottle wine cellar, indoor swimming pool, and a 19-seat movie theater.
Location: Kensington, London, England\r\nEstimated Value: $124,000,000\r\nFeatures: 5 stories, 10 bedrooms, underground pool, sauna, gym, movie theater, panic room—this one’s got everything you need and a lot of things you don’t.
Location: Beverly Hills, California\r\nEstimated Value: $125,000,000\r\nFeatures: neoclassical architecture and palatial decor make this thing look like it was air-lifted from France. In any case, with the French name Fleur de Lys, you know it’s classy.
Location: Transylvania, Romania\r\nEstimated Value: $135,000,000\r\nFeatures: wasn’t actually owned by Vlad III, aka Vlad the Impaler, Viviode of Wallachia and reputed inspiration for Bram Stoker’s undead prince. But it looks like it could be, and it’s a castle, so it’s got a hefty price tag.
Location: Corner of Leftright Drive, Surrey, England\r\nEstimated Value: $139,000,000\r\nFeatures: 58 acres and 103 rooms, including a bowling alley, movie theater, horse stables, squash courts, tennis courts, and of course a couple of swimming pools.
Location: Los Angeles, California\r\nEstimated Value: $150,000,000\r\nFeatures: built by Aaron Spelling in 1991 and modeled after a French chateau, this thing is 58,000 square feet and has a movie theater, gym, pool, tennis court, and three separate rooms dedicated solely to wrapping presents.
Location: Montana\r\nEstimated Value: $155,000,000\r\nFeatures: this is the biggest house in the super exclusive “Yellowstone Club” ski and golf community in Montana. It’s only got 10 bedrooms, but it does feature both an indoor and outdoor pool, fireplaces in every bathroom, and a chair lift directly from the back door to the top of the mountain.
Location: Beverly Hills, California\r\nEstimated Value: $165,000,000\r\nFeatures: built by newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst and featured in The Godfather, this estate 6 residences, 3 pools, a nightclub, and two giant towers modeled after the church of Santa Maria Mayor in Ronda, Spain.
Location: Hamptons, New York\r\nEstimated Value: $198,000,000\r\nFeatures: 63 acres, 110,000 square feet, 29 bedrooms, 39 bathrooms, bowling alley, Atlantic ocean beachfront.
Location: London, England\r\nEstimated Value: $212,000,000\r\nFeatures: London is one of the most expensive cities in the world, so a luxury penthouse apartment staffed with private chefs (yes, they come with it), outfitted with bulletproof glass, and overlooking Hyde Park is going to cost a pretty penny.
Location: London, England\r\nEstimated Value: $218,000,000\r\nFeatures: 30,000 square foot 19th century mansion recently purchased by a Russian billionaire.
Location: Cote d’Azure, France\r\nEstimated Value: $460,000,000\r\nFeatures: 80,000 square feet and built by King Leopold II of Belgium, it’s got everything…including a pretty nice location and view.
Location: Mumbai, India\r\nEstimated Value: $1,000,000,000+\r\nFeatures: until recently, this 27-storey, 400,000 square foot “home” was the world’s most expensive. It was built by Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani, and requires 600 staffers to function. It’s got all the usual supermansion features, plus three helipads, a 168-car parking garage (Ambani is a collector), and an ice room that produces snow flurries. Because why not, right?
Location: Switzerland\r\nEstimated Value: $12,000,000,000\r\nFeatures: solid gold and platinum fixtures throughout (about 400,000 pounds worth of precious metals), flooring made from meteors and dinosaur bone shavings, and of course a scenic location in the Swiss Alps. At only 12 billion, this one’s a steal.