The owners of the most luxurious houses in the world are not always in sight. We all know who owns Buckingham Palace, but does anyone know the name of Tim Blixet? Or do you know a billionaire from India who built a 27-story building just for himself? We think not.
Well, it's time for the veil of mystery to fall! We made a rating of the most expensive houses - modern castles in the full sense of the word - and people who are lucky enough and rich enough to own them. We present to you the most expensive houses in the world.
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Gardens of Upper Phillimore, house 7
Location: London
Price: $ 128 Million
Description: This ten-bedroom mansion is more like a private high school with an underground pool, sauna, cinema and even a fear room. And it's all in addition to the general interior, decorated with marble, gold and priceless works of art. The house is considered one of the most expensive in England.
Owner: Elena Pinchuk is the daughter of the second president of Ukraine - Leonid Kuchma. She is known for leading the AIDS Foundation she founded, and is a friend of Elton John.
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Mansion in Kensington Palace Gardens
Location: London
Price: $ 140 Million
Description: Located in the Billionaires Alley, this palace will soon acquire an underground annex with a tennis court, a wellness center and an automobile museum. At cost, it takes the second place in our rating of the most expensive houses in the world.
Owner: Roman Abramovich is a Russian billionaire and owner of a private investment company, Millhouse. To the whole western world he is known as the owner of the English football club "Chelsea".
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Rock Number 7
Location: resort zone Big Sky( Big Sky), Montana
Price: $ 155 million
Description: The largest property in the Yellowstone Club and one of the most expensive in the world is a private area for golf and skatingon skis, designed for mega-rich;in the house - underfloor heating, a lot of swimming pools, gym, wine cellar and even own funicular.
Owners: Edra and Tim Blixet - a businessman in real estate and forest baron Tim Blixet became co-founder of Yellowstone Club, but the bankruptcy of the club, the divorce process and other misfortunes have inflicted a serious blow to Blixet's welfare in recent years.
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Hurst Castle
Location: San Simeon, CA
Price: 191 ml dollars
Description: The 27-bedroom bedroom lock used for filming the Godfather, hosted John and Jackie Kennedy, ClarkGabel, Winston Churchill and other famous figures.
Owners: proxies of William Randolph Hearst - the castle built by the first US newspaper magnate, is now an object of heritage and a tourist attraction included in part of the park system of California and is one of the most expensive homes in America.
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Ellison Mansion
Location: Woodside, CA
Price: $ 200M
Description: Rather, not a house, but a massive building of 10 buildings located on 9 acres, with an artificial lake, a pond with Chinesecarp, tea house and bathing house.
Owner of : Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle, ranked third in the list of the world's richest people in the Forbes list in 2013, is the owner of this house, one of the most expensive in the world.
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Kensington Palace Gardens, House 18-19
Location: London
Price: 222 Million US Dollars
Description: Another property on the Billionaire Alley - House 18-19 located side by side with the Prince William House and Kate Middleton. This residence itself has 12 bedrooms, is equipped with a Turkish hamam, an indoor swimming pool and parking for 20 seats. It is quite deserved, it takes the fifth place of our list of the most expensive houses on the planet.
Owner: Lakshmi Mittal is the head of Arcelor Mittal, the world's largest steel producer, and according to the same Forbes, one of the 100 richest people in India.
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Fairfield Pond, possession 4
Location: Sagaponak, Hamptons, New York
Price: $ 248.5 million
Description: This 29-bedroom house occupies an area of more than 25 hectares and has an adjacentto it own power station. Inside there are 39 bathrooms, a basketball court, a bowling alley, squash and tennis courts, 3 swimming pools and a dining room with a length of more than 100 meters.
Owner: Ira Rennert is the owner of a group of companies Renco - a holding company specializing in investments in the production of cars and ore smelting. He also owns holdings in metallurgy and mining.
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Villa Leopold
Location: Cote d'Azur, France
Price: 750 Million USD
Description: Opens the top three of the most expensive houses at the moment, Villa Leopold. This estate of 20 hectares, according to the description of the Variety edition, includes a "greenhouse of industrial size, a swimming pool and a house with a swimming pool, an open-air kitchen, a helipad and a guest house that is larger than the mansions of most millionaires."The house is famous for its appearance in 1955 in the frames of Alfred Hitchcock's picture "Catch a thief".
Owner: Lily Safra is a Brazilian philanthropist and widow of the Lebanese banker William Safra. Her husband died in another house of a married couple after a fire, apparently caused by arson.
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Antilles
Location: Mumbai, India
Price: $ 1 Billion
Description: Antilia is not even a home in the traditional sense. This building is 27 floors with a total area of 36,000 sq.m.is equipped with an underground six-level garage, three helipads, and its maintenance requires 600 people.
Owner: Mukesh Ambani is India's richest man, managing a network of enterprises with revenue of $ 23.6 billion, according to Forbes. Ambani made a fortune by managing the company Reliance Industries, working in the energy and raw materials sector.
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Buckingham Palace
Buckingham Palace rightfully ranks first in our rating of the most expensive homes in the world, , which are privately owned.
Location: London
Price: 1.55 billion dollars
Description: Technically still a residential house, but certainly not subject to sale, the residence of the Queen of England was estimated by the Housing Society of Britain in 2012 at about 1.5 billiondollars. This property consists of 775 rooms( including 19 rooms for public purposes), 52 bedrooms, 188 rooms for staff and 78 bathrooms.
Owner: Currently Queen Elizabeth II, who ascended the throne on February 6, 1952.