The internet is full of influencers and celebrities telling the world about their accommodations and achievements, but did you know that the most expensive house in the world is in London, Buckingham Palace? No wonder it belongs to the royal family and costs more than a billion dollars.
While the second most expensive house in the world is in India and belongs to Mukesh Ambani. Antilia on Mumbai’s Cumballa Hill. The 27-story house was built in 2010 at an estimated cost of between $1 billion and $2 billion.
Ambani’s Antilia is actually the most expensive private residential home in the world, as Buckingham Palace is owned by the Crown.
Check out 10 of the most expensive houses in the world below to find out more!
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1. Buckingham Palace | London, United Kingdom
Although Buckingham Palace is technically a Crown property, it sits at the top of the world’s most expensive homes report.
The house consists of 775 rooms, 188 staff rooms, including 52 royal and guest rooms, 92 offices, 78 bathrooms and 19 cabins.
2. Antilia | Mumbai, India
The second rank is occupied by Mukesh Ambani’s 400,000 sq ft Antilia.
The expensive villa in Mumbai’s Cumballa Hills is situated at one of the most expensive addresses in the world called Altamount Road. The home is designed by Chicago-based architects Perkins and Will and Australian construction company Leighton Holdings.
The house has 27 floors, replete with extra high ceilings and each floor is equivalent to the average floor of a two-story building.
The villa is capable of surviving an earthquake of magnitude 8 on the Richter scale. The building has six floors dedicated to cars, including Ambani’s INR 5 crore Mercedes Maybach.
3. Villa Leopolda | Cote d’Azur, France
This villa belonging to a 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 villa after her husband’s death and her 50-acre property includes a huge 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 set.
4. Villa Les Cèdres | French Riviera
Villa Les Cèdres on the French Riviera is priced at no less than $410 million. This palatial villa was built for the king of Belgium in 1830.
The 18,000-square-foot house features 14 bedrooms, an Olympic-sized swimming pool, a wood-paneled library containing 3,000 books on flora and naturalism (including a 1640 edition of a botanical codex), a man-made pond with Amazon lilies. pads, a bronze statue of Athena, a chandelier-lit ballroom, a stable large enough for 30 horses, grand living rooms, 19th-century portraits in ornate frames, and impressive woodwork throughout.
5. Four Fairfield Ponds | Sagaponack, New York
The Four Fairfield Pond, located in Sagaponack, New York, is owned by Ira Renner, owner of the Renco Group.
She owns the company with investments in automobile manufacturing and foundry.
The house at number five is a 63-acre home that has 29 bedrooms, its own power plant, 39 bathrooms, a basketball court, a bowling alley, squash courts, tennis courts, three swimming pools, and a huge 91-foot pool. feet. dining room.
6. Ellison Estate | Woodside, California
This 23-acre property belongs to Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison. The complex has 10 buildings, a man-man lake, a koi pond, a tea house and a bathhouse. Although his 2012 purchase of the Hawaiian island of Lanai has been by far his largest overall investment, Ellison has made a series of blockbuster purchases over the past two decades.
7. Palace of Love | Beverly Hills, California
Real estate entrepreneur Jeff Greene is the American politician who owns the 53,000-square-foot Mediterranean-style villa Palazzo di, Amore.
The house in the seventh range has 12 bedrooms, 23 bathrooms, tennis courts, swimming pools, a theater, waterfalls, a theater, reflecting pools and a garage with capacity for 27 cars, but it is also a party venue, with a rotating dance floor and ballroom. The sale price of the relisted property was around $129 million in 2017.
8. Seven The Pinnacle | Big sky, Montana
The house in eighth place is owned by Edra and lumber magnate Tim Blixseth, who is a
part of the huge Yellowstone Club.
The house has underfloor heating, several swimming pools, gym, wine cellar and its own ski lift.
9. Xanadu 2.0 | medina, washington
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and his, Melinda’s home, Xanadu 2.0 in Medina, Washington, comes in at number nine on our list of the world’s most expensive homes. The house is 66,000 square feet and costs $63 million.
Xanadu 2.0 is an “earth-protected” home, meaning it is integrated into its environment to regulate temperature more efficiently. It has a 60-foot pool that is located in a separate 3,900-square-foot building. Apart from this, the house has a 2,100-square-foot library with a vaulted ceiling and two secret bookshelves.
10. 18-19 Kensington Palace Gardens | London
In tenth place are the Kensington Palace Gardens, 18-19, London, designed by Philip Hardwick for Sutherland Hall Sutherland, and the first tenant was the civil engineer James Meadows Rendel. The house has 12 bedrooms, Turkish baths, indoor pool and parking for 20 cars.
Previous owners of this most expensive house in the world include the de Rothschild family (early 20th century); The Free Poles (1939-1945); David Khalili, art dealer (1995-2001); and Bernie Ecclestone, head of Formula 1 (2001-2004), and the Indian billionaire Lakshmi Mittal.
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