The number one spot has 78 bathrooms. Which is overkill, if you ask us…
You might think, what with the way the current housing market is, that a 3-bedroom in Dalkey would probably be somewhere on this list.
We can’t say for certain that it didn’t wind up at #11, but it definitely isn’t in the Top 10 most expensive homes (which automatically discounts palaces, which are a different thing) on the entire planet.
According to CompareCamp.com, these are those homes, along with their price-tags, and who currently owns them.
We’re gonna go out on a limb here and say none of these will be popping up on an AirBnb any time soon…
10. 7 Upper Phillimore Gardens
Location: London
Value: $128 million
Owner: Olena Pinchuk, the daughter of Leonid Kuchma, Ukraine’s second president
9. Kensington Palace Gardens
Location: London
Value: $140 million
Owner: Roman Abramovic, the Russian billionaire owner of Chelsea Football Club
8. Seven The Pinnacle
Location: Big Sky, Montana
Value: $155 million
Owners: Edra and Tim Blixseth, real estate developers and timber barons
7. Hearst Castle
Location: San Simeon, California
Value: $191 million
Owners: William Randolph Hearst’s trustees, part of America’s first newspaper magnate family
6. Ellison Estate
Location: Woodside, California
Value: $200 million
Owner: Larry Ellison, who Forbes Magazine announced was the world’s 3rd richest man (albeit back in 2013)
5. 18-19 Kensington Palace Gardens
Location: London
Value: $222 million
Owner: Lakshmi Mittal, the head of Arcelor Mittal, the world’s largest steel manufacturer
4. Four Fairfield Pond
Location: Sagaponack, New York
Value: $248.5 million
Owner: Ira Rennert, owner the Renco Group, who make their money in smelting, apparently
3. Villa Leopolda
Location: Cote D’Azure, France
Value: $750 million
Owner: Lily Safra, a Brazilian philanthropist and widow of billionaire Lebanese banker William Safra. Fun fact, movie fans – this is the house Hitchcock filmed To Catch A Thief in back in 1955.
2. Antilia
Location: Mumbai, India
Value: $1 billion
Owner: Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest man, with a net worth of $23.6 billion
1. Buckingham Palace
Location: London
Value: $1.55 billion
Owner: Yes, it does count as a house, and it currently belongs to Queen Elizabeth II
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