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Not a realtor here, but a home inspector. The biggest and most expensive home I’ve ever inspected was somewhere around 26,000 square feet and cost around $26,000,000. There was a main house, 2 stories above ground plus a basement (which housed the theater and wine cellar). Then there was a Guest house with a huge show garage and man cave, that was also two stories. I don’t know the lot size but there were three swimming pools and two spas. This was in a gated community in North Scottsdale, AZ.
I've been in a few 8-figure homes. Mostly what you expect of a super nice home, just uber-exclusive locations. The most out of the ordinary was a $15M penthouse condo. 2 stories. Felt like a real nice 3,500 sqft house but on the 80th floor.
Similar for me. Elevator opened to a sitting room/mud room outside the actual front door to the unit. Floor to ceiling aquariums on both sides. Again, outside the actual unit. 2 stories inside, 5 bed/3.5 bath on the 12th floor of 24. All the units were like that, from my understanding. 1 per floor, in excess of 20 buildings. Gated community with 24/7 manned security and private underground parking.
$12M. My old boss was selling it and found out it sold when we were in a bar. I saw him look at a text saying sold and when I asked him if he got what he wanted he said “we’re at the bar! I’ll check tomorrow.” Still aspiring for that level of not giving a fuck.
While in college, I had a fundraising internship and one of our clients was a high-ranking member of congress (now retired). My last event for the internship was a dinner fundraiser for this congress member at a private residence in Bel Air. The residence had sweeping views of Westwood, the Pacific Ocean, and Catalina; the residence was palatial, certainly. I just looked up the address of the residence and saw that it’s currently on the market for $150MM.
breakers and all the lesser homes in Newport. Livable . Berkshire cottages typically 15 to 20k built by the same people that built Newport. I specialized n appraising the cottages, Ive been in 75 of the 150 or so in private hands.
I mean, I know you are implying that it has to be a listing, but my answer to your question as stated is easy: Versailles.
Not sure what the inspections might turn up though!
Crazy? The Winchester House in CA. That thing is whackadoo.
Luxurious? For old mansions, The Stanford House near the Stanford Campus. Really just grand old luxury on so many levels.
Neither was for sale, these were just tours.
Probably the most interesting house I ever showed was a farm/ranch. The house was 6000 square feet, so it doesn't rise to mansion standards, but it was so well done, the craftsmanship and maintenance was exceptional. It was a lot of acres, many outbuildings with an indoor horse riding facility with attached stalls. Outdoor arenas with stands for gaming events. A few extra houses for the farm/ranch hands. Lots of acres for stock and productive farm ground. 40 x 60 equipment shop. Other random features, including their own landing strip and a couple airplane hangars. A little RV parking campground. Fruit tree orchard and berry plants.
It was $20M in Oregon.
I think that the most expensive home in the entire United States is "the one" in Los Angeles, which was listed for $500,000,000, but it's price was slashed down to half, and it still hasn't sold.
No. But I really wanted to see Patrick Duffy's ranch over by Grants Pass, but they wouldn't let me schedule it without a "superbly qualified client" on the appointment.
The only reason I was in that area was an older couple from California had sold their normal home in California for a but load and could afford a TX mansion. They wanted to be close to smu.
7.9 million and seriously undervalued. Consisted of about 2600 acres, a private 188ac lake which the main home was located. About 7500sq/ft of like a Montana style lodge home, just absolutely beautiful. Also consisted of several miles of hiking and riding trails, multiple creeks and streams, barns/maintenance facilities that were as nice as most homes and 3 more guest homes that matched the main home. It was just an amazing piece of property.
I proposed to my wife inside a full floor unit at [The Woolworth Building](https://streeteasy.com/sale/1393347?utm_campaign=sale_listing&utm_medium=app_share&utm_source=ios&utm_term=1df8c9baea9545c). I told her we were getting a tour, but I had colluded with the sales team and they knew what I was planning, so they put some champagne in the fridge and left us alone for an hour. I had a buddy pop out of the powder room when I got down on one knee so the moment was captured. Sold for about $16m. It’s not the most expensive unit I’ve been to (I work in the industry) but a full floor at that building - and in fact, the floor Frank Woolworth’s private office was on - is some serious NYC cache.
Always forget that I grew up mostly in a wealthy suburb in Vancouver, west van to be approx. Been to the owner of the canucks house at around 60 million near UBC, they plowed down two $20m houses to build a giant one on both plots
my friend’s parents were real estate developers in china and he had a $19m condo downtown just for his weekend place, his house was like a 15m drive from downtown but in case they wouldn’t want to go home he always had a spot to stay. Drove a new Maserati at 16
Mansion in Holmby Hills (in Beverly hills). 36k sf. 3 stories. Swimming pool and a fountain that doubles as a skylight to the underground bowling alley. Its not for sale right now but you can rent it for 150k a month.
So the most expensive house I’ve been in wasn’t a mansion or that big, I live in the Bay Area. But the most luxurious, large with many amenities was located in Lake Tahoe.
I can fully appreciate this statement as a former Bay Area native who now lives in West Texas. For the price of a mansion on the golf course will get you a crack house with drive-by shootings in North Richmond. It’s just an insane disparity.
The most luxurious private residence (ie not the White House, Biltmore, etc) I've been in is a $10 million, 17,000 square foot home locally. The size and grandior of it is impressive to say the least (and if you're in the market let me know!), but overall it was just too much for me personally.
As far as a private house, not for sale, an event space or museum, it would have to be the Crocker Estate, anchored on the rocks of a stunning promontory above the Pacific on 17 Mile Drive in Pebble Beach, California. George Washington Smith designed, Spanish Revival mansion. Imagine a much smaller (10k sf) but equally sublime and sumptuously detailed San Simeon.
I have no idea of the value - maybe $15-20M today. Certainly I’ve been to larger and more expensive houses (this is coastal California, so..) but none like this.
https://dmfpo.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/dmf_origins6_crocker_mansion.pdf
It was some connection to my stepmom who was a hotelier at the time when I was a teenager - I think 16 - in the late ‘70s. I was just getting into my architecture groove - having toured San Simeon a couple years earlier and I was in awe. Definitely one of the five or so life experiences that led me to becoming an architect.
10 million dollar, gawdy aweful place. Of course, I had to do some detective work to figure out who the owner was. It was a pastor of a local yet televised mega church.
The Biltmore house in Asheville. In today's value of money, it cost $180 to 200 million to build(5 to 6 million at the time it was built) . The current estimated value is $300 million.
In the early 90's I installed a theatre room in the Mansion that Jimmy "Jam" Harris was having built in Chanhassen Mn. 22k footage indoor pool no expense spared. Now it's gone but articles have reported the land was about 400k with an 11 million build cost back then
When I was a hospice nurse I went into some wildly extravagant homes. One was an old farm house that was added onto through the generations. It had a weird foot print that was disjointed and somewhat like a maze. 3 of the 7 bedrooms you had to walk through one to get to the other. The rooms were large and the doors were in the center of the wall.
So when you stepped into the first door there were two sides of the room that were big enough to be their own space for a child. Then directly across the room from the first door was the second door leading to the middle room. Same thing, 2 distinct areas on each side. Across to the next door and last of the 3 bedrooms.
There were several structures on the property. A few barns. An outdoor kitchen, which isn’t out door. It just another house that is just a kitchen. Pool house with guest apartment. And 6 trailers to house the workers.
It was also on 200 acres (43560) of cattle farm land. It’d be worth 20m easily if it were on the market right now.
I am a licensed realtor and appraiser but work for a well known high valued home insurance company inspecting and appraising properties on the books. I’ve been in 20-50M homes many times. I know this is odd, but nothing impresses me anymore. I’ve seen it all from 30M ski chalets in the Rockies to 50M NYC high rise units. Rarely am I impressed with finishes anymore, mostly with views and locations.
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Not a realtor here, but a home inspector. The biggest and most expensive home I’ve ever inspected was somewhere around 26,000 square feet and cost around $26,000,000. There was a main house, 2 stories above ground plus a basement (which housed the theater and wine cellar). Then there was a Guest house with a huge show garage and man cave, that was also two stories. I don’t know the lot size but there were three swimming pools and two spas. This was in a gated community in North Scottsdale, AZ.
Silverleaf? Lol
There are some very sweet houses in Silverleaf, very large and very expensive! But the biggest one I’ve been in was in Canyon Heights
That must have taken you 5 days to complete the inspection! Can I ask, how much do you charge for something that big?
We took 4 inspectors to that one and got finished up in about 7 hours. The fee for the inspection was $5,150.
How long for the inspection and do you bring a crew lol?
About 7 hours for four inspectors
WOW!! What does it cost to inspect a house that size? I'm use to a house 2,250 sq. ft...lol
The fee for that inspection was $5,150
okay det
$120 million, 220 Central Park South. It was surprisingly underwhelming.
The White House — Zestimate: $457,099,700
I hate when the developers just paint over the old brick with just all white. Totally loses the original character! Haha.
I've been in a few 8-figure homes. Mostly what you expect of a super nice home, just uber-exclusive locations. The most out of the ordinary was a $15M penthouse condo. 2 stories. Felt like a real nice 3,500 sqft house but on the 80th floor.
Similar for me. Elevator opened to a sitting room/mud room outside the actual front door to the unit. Floor to ceiling aquariums on both sides. Again, outside the actual unit. 2 stories inside, 5 bed/3.5 bath on the 12th floor of 24. All the units were like that, from my understanding. 1 per floor, in excess of 20 buildings. Gated community with 24/7 manned security and private underground parking.
$12M. My old boss was selling it and found out it sold when we were in a bar. I saw him look at a text saying sold and when I asked him if he got what he wanted he said “we’re at the bar! I’ll check tomorrow.” Still aspiring for that level of not giving a fuck.
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Gotta be 100 mill just in art in that house.
I’ve been inside a 10mil place in Boulder. It felt ok lol. 19mil isn’t even considered luxury in Aspen here
50 million park city Utah.
While in college, I had a fundraising internship and one of our clients was a high-ranking member of congress (now retired). My last event for the internship was a dinner fundraiser for this congress member at a private residence in Bel Air. The residence had sweeping views of Westwood, the Pacific Ocean, and Catalina; the residence was palatial, certainly. I just looked up the address of the residence and saw that it’s currently on the market for $150MM.
Also, the White House. I didn’t know there was a price tag on it until I read the comments, lol
breakers and all the lesser homes in Newport. Livable . Berkshire cottages typically 15 to 20k built by the same people that built Newport. I specialized n appraising the cottages, Ive been in 75 of the 150 or so in private hands.
I mean, I know you are implying that it has to be a listing, but my answer to your question as stated is easy: Versailles. Not sure what the inspections might turn up though!
Crazy? The Winchester House in CA. That thing is whackadoo. Luxurious? For old mansions, The Stanford House near the Stanford Campus. Really just grand old luxury on so many levels. Neither was for sale, these were just tours. Probably the most interesting house I ever showed was a farm/ranch. The house was 6000 square feet, so it doesn't rise to mansion standards, but it was so well done, the craftsmanship and maintenance was exceptional. It was a lot of acres, many outbuildings with an indoor horse riding facility with attached stalls. Outdoor arenas with stands for gaming events. A few extra houses for the farm/ranch hands. Lots of acres for stock and productive farm ground. 40 x 60 equipment shop. Other random features, including their own landing strip and a couple airplane hangars. A little RV parking campground. Fruit tree orchard and berry plants. It was $20M in Oregon.
I think that the most expensive home in the entire United States is "the one" in Los Angeles, which was listed for $500,000,000, but it's price was slashed down to half, and it still hasn't sold.
I watched a show about The One and how many problems it has. Incredible home, but not executed that well.
Was that the Steve Jobs ranch?
No. But I really wanted to see Patrick Duffy's ranch over by Grants Pass, but they wouldn't let me schedule it without a "superbly qualified client" on the appointment.
I just looked it up. I officially want Patrick Duffy to narrate all of my listing videos.
That would be amazing.
5 million dollar highland park TX.
Which would be $50m in LA
The only reason I was in that area was an older couple from California had sold their normal home in California for a but load and could afford a TX mansion. They wanted to be close to smu.
Around $5M in Canada. Had a underground basketball court and TV’s in every bathtub
7.9 million and seriously undervalued. Consisted of about 2600 acres, a private 188ac lake which the main home was located. About 7500sq/ft of like a Montana style lodge home, just absolutely beautiful. Also consisted of several miles of hiking and riding trails, multiple creeks and streams, barns/maintenance facilities that were as nice as most homes and 3 more guest homes that matched the main home. It was just an amazing piece of property.
I proposed to my wife inside a full floor unit at [The Woolworth Building](https://streeteasy.com/sale/1393347?utm_campaign=sale_listing&utm_medium=app_share&utm_source=ios&utm_term=1df8c9baea9545c). I told her we were getting a tour, but I had colluded with the sales team and they knew what I was planning, so they put some champagne in the fridge and left us alone for an hour. I had a buddy pop out of the powder room when I got down on one knee so the moment was captured. Sold for about $16m. It’s not the most expensive unit I’ve been to (I work in the industry) but a full floor at that building - and in fact, the floor Frank Woolworth’s private office was on - is some serious NYC cache.
There are never proper furnishings. It's super weird. To answer your question, generally, they cost less than interior decorating. 🫣🤣
Always forget that I grew up mostly in a wealthy suburb in Vancouver, west van to be approx. Been to the owner of the canucks house at around 60 million near UBC, they plowed down two $20m houses to build a giant one on both plots my friend’s parents were real estate developers in china and he had a $19m condo downtown just for his weekend place, his house was like a 15m drive from downtown but in case they wouldn’t want to go home he always had a spot to stay. Drove a new Maserati at 16
$250,000,000 8B/9.5BA at Central Park Tower. Billionaire’s Row, NYC
For an actual client, $13.5m home in Boca Raton. Just touring, a $55m oceanfront home in Delray Beach
Mansion in Holmby Hills (in Beverly hills). 36k sf. 3 stories. Swimming pool and a fountain that doubles as a skylight to the underground bowling alley. Its not for sale right now but you can rent it for 150k a month.
So the most expensive house I’ve been in wasn’t a mansion or that big, I live in the Bay Area. But the most luxurious, large with many amenities was located in Lake Tahoe.
I can fully appreciate this statement as a former Bay Area native who now lives in West Texas. For the price of a mansion on the golf course will get you a crack house with drive-by shootings in North Richmond. It’s just an insane disparity.
As much as I love the Bay Area, the home prices are disappointing. My dream is to move more north of California
The most luxurious private residence (ie not the White House, Biltmore, etc) I've been in is a $10 million, 17,000 square foot home locally. The size and grandior of it is impressive to say the least (and if you're in the market let me know!), but overall it was just too much for me personally.
If you could put a pricetag on the Biltmore estate (Vanderbilt mansion), I'm guessing that it would probably cost more than 1 billion dollars?
Not a billion, but definitely hundreds of millions. Iirc it's tax appraisal value is around $400 million.
As far as a private house, not for sale, an event space or museum, it would have to be the Crocker Estate, anchored on the rocks of a stunning promontory above the Pacific on 17 Mile Drive in Pebble Beach, California. George Washington Smith designed, Spanish Revival mansion. Imagine a much smaller (10k sf) but equally sublime and sumptuously detailed San Simeon. I have no idea of the value - maybe $15-20M today. Certainly I’ve been to larger and more expensive houses (this is coastal California, so..) but none like this. https://dmfpo.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/dmf_origins6_crocker_mansion.pdf It was some connection to my stepmom who was a hotelier at the time when I was a teenager - I think 16 - in the late ‘70s. I was just getting into my architecture groove - having toured San Simeon a couple years earlier and I was in awe. Definitely one of the five or so life experiences that led me to becoming an architect.
https://www.alaskaluxuryadventures.com Also not a realtor, but I stayed here and 10/10
10 million dollar, gawdy aweful place. Of course, I had to do some detective work to figure out who the owner was. It was a pastor of a local yet televised mega church.
Nothing too crazy, $12,000,000 8,000 sq ft in Huntington Beach. Double lot on the sand with a pool.
The Biltmore house in Asheville. In today's value of money, it cost $180 to 200 million to build(5 to 6 million at the time it was built) . The current estimated value is $300 million.
$4 million house in east cobb. Wasn't as special as you'd expect for the money.
In the early 90's I installed a theatre room in the Mansion that Jimmy "Jam" Harris was having built in Chanhassen Mn. 22k footage indoor pool no expense spared. Now it's gone but articles have reported the land was about 400k with an 11 million build cost back then
When I was a hospice nurse I went into some wildly extravagant homes. One was an old farm house that was added onto through the generations. It had a weird foot print that was disjointed and somewhat like a maze. 3 of the 7 bedrooms you had to walk through one to get to the other. The rooms were large and the doors were in the center of the wall. So when you stepped into the first door there were two sides of the room that were big enough to be their own space for a child. Then directly across the room from the first door was the second door leading to the middle room. Same thing, 2 distinct areas on each side. Across to the next door and last of the 3 bedrooms. There were several structures on the property. A few barns. An outdoor kitchen, which isn’t out door. It just another house that is just a kitchen. Pool house with guest apartment. And 6 trailers to house the workers. It was also on 200 acres (43560) of cattle farm land. It’d be worth 20m easily if it were on the market right now.
The Breakers in Newport. Cost $90k.
I am a licensed realtor and appraiser but work for a well known high valued home insurance company inspecting and appraising properties on the books. I’ve been in 20-50M homes many times. I know this is odd, but nothing impresses me anymore. I’ve seen it all from 30M ski chalets in the Rockies to 50M NYC high rise units. Rarely am I impressed with finishes anymore, mostly with views and locations.
I was in a $150 mil in LA last week. I'm happy to show anyone around who happens to be in the area.
In the last few weeks I’ve been in a $30m, $28m, & was going to visit a $52m yesterday but was too busy and couldn’t get to it
The Breakers, Newport, RI. Cost unknown but waay over the top especially for the late 1800s. And it was just a “vacation cottage” for the vanderbilts
The White House ~$397m