Top 10 Most Expensive House in The World
- Buckingham Place - US$4.9 Billion
- Antilia - US$2 Billion
- Villa Leopolda - US$750 Million
- Villa Les Cedres - US$450 Million
- Les Palais Bulles - US$420 Million
- The Odeon Tower Penthouse - US$330 Million
- Four Fairfield Pond - US$250 Million
- 18-19 Kensington Gardens - US$222 Million
- Elison Estate - US$200 Million
- Palazzo di Amore - US$195 Million
1. Buckingham Palace - US$4.9 Billion
Buckingham Palace is a royal property and it holds the record of being the most expensive house in the world currently. The total price of Buckingham palace is around US$4.9 billion.
Buckingham Palace is a London royal residence and the administrative headquarters of the monarch of the United Kingdom. The palace is located in the City of Westminster, the place is often at the center of state occasions and royal hospitality.
The palace has 775 rooms, and 188 staff rooms, including 52 royal and guest bedrooms, 92 offices, 78 bathrooms, and 19 staterooms, and the garden is the largest private garden in London.
2. Antilia - US$2 Billion
The second rank goes to the Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Antilia. With a price of around US$2 Billion which makes it is the world's second most expensive house.
Antilia is a private residence of Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani. The architecture is around 173 meters tall, over 37,000 square meters, and with amenities such as three helipads, a 168-car garage, a ballroom, 9high speed elevators, a 50-seat theatre, a terrace gardens, a swimming pool, a spa, a health center, a temple, and a snow room that spits out snowflakes from the walls. In fact, Antilia can survive an earthquake of magnitude 89 on the Richter scale.
The design and the architecture make it not only the most expensive house in the world but also one of the most beautiful houses in the world. Having all-in-one features inside this house for US$2 billion is not so bad.
3. Villa La Leopolda - US$750 Million
The Villa La Leopolda is a large detached villa in Villefranches-sur-Mer, in the Alpes-Maritimes department on the French Riviera. The villa is situated on 18 acres of ground.
The Villa La Leopolda was designed and built from 1929 to 1931 by an American architect, Ogoden Codman, Jr. THe Villa La Leopolda is considered one of the most expensive houses in the world with having a US$750 million of the price which makes it the 3rd most expensive house in the world.
The villa was used as the location of Lermontov's villa in the 1948 film The Red Shoes. The heroine climbs the steps to the vill thinking that she's been invited to dinner. Instead, she would give the starring role in the new ballet.
4. Villa Les Cedres - US$450 Million
The Villa Les Cedress is a list price of US$450 million which makes it the world's 4th most expensive house in the world. The owner of Villa Les Cedress is around 187 years old. The house has made on an 18,000 square-foot, having a 14-bedroom mansion set on 35 acres. An Olympic-sized swimming pool, a wood-paneled library holding 3,000 books on flora and naturalism (including a 1640 edition of a botanical codex), a man-made pond with Amazonian lily pads, a bronze statue of Athena, a chandelier-lit ballroom, a stable big enough for 30 horses, grand sitting rooms, 19th-century portraits in ornate frames, and stunning woodwork throughout. The trees—cedar, palm, and olive—are by themselves worth a fortune
Les Cèdres was built in 1830 and bought in 1850 by the mayor of Villefranche-sur-Mer when it operated as an olive tree farm. (There are olive trees more than 300 years old on the grounds.) The mayor’s descendants sold the property to the Belgian King Leopold II in 1904, who, made stupendously rich by his exploitation of mineral resources and rubber trees in the Congo Free State (now the Democratic Republic of Congo), expanded the gardens that still surround the home.
5. Les Palais Bulles - US$420 Million
Another expensive house present in the world is Les Palais Bulles. Palais Blues is a large house in Theoule-Sur-Mer, near Cannes, France, that was designed by the Hungarian architect Antti Lovag. It was built for the French industrialist Pierre Bernard and later bought by the fashion designer Pierre Cardin as a holiday home.
The house in rank five is a 63-acre home that comes with 29 bedrooms, its very own power plant, 39 bathrooms, a basketball court, a bowling alley, squash courts, tennis courts, three swimming pools, and a massive 91-foot dining room.
6. The Odeon Tower Penthouse - US$330 Million
The Odeon Tower Penthouse might not feature a garden but it does offer spectacular views across Monaco. Known as the world’s most expensive flat, it sits at the top of a 560ft skyscraper. Overlooking the clear blue waters of the Mediterranean Sea, The Odeon Tower Penthouse has its own 360-degree infinity pool, complete with a private water slide for those who fancy a salt-free swim.
The luxury penthouse includes 38,000 square feet of space spread across five levels, with five kitchens spread throughout each floor. It’s got a dance floor, a luxurious bathroom, and even a few staff bedrooms. A parking space for the property is thought to cost around $330,000.
7. Four Fairfield Pond - US$250 Million
According to Dictionary, the 62,000-square-foot mansion’s bedroom-bathroom ratio has been a bit overstated by the media over the years. The limestone Italian Renaissance-style home has 21 bedrooms and 18 bathrooms and sits on 63 acres along with other buildings on the property, including a playhouse and two pool houses.
The mansion features a 164-seat theatre with a stage large enough to put on a Broadway production. The dining room is an expensive 91 feet according to Veranda and can seat up to 105 people.
8. 18-19 Kensington Gardens - US$222 Million
On the eighth rank is 18-19 Kensington Palace Gardens in London designed by Philip Hardwick for Sutherland Hall Sutherland, and the first tenant was the civil engineer James Meadows Rendel. The home comes with 12 bedrooms, Turkish baths, an indoor pool, and parking for 20 cars.
9. Elison Estate - US$200 Million
This 23-acre property belongs to Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison. The compound has 10 buildings, a man-man lake, a koi pond, a tea house, and a bath house. Though his 2012 purchase of the Hawaiian island of Lanai has been his largest overall investment by far, Ellison's made a number of blockbuster purchases over the last two decades.
10. Palazzo di Amore - US$195 Million
The house on the 7th rank comes with 12 bedrooms, 23 bathrooms, tennis courts, swimming pools, a theater, waterfalls, a theater, reflecting pools, and a garage that can accommodate 27 cars, but it is also a party pad—with a revolving dance floor and ballroom. The asking price of the property re-listed in the sale was around $129 million in the year 2017.
