worlds most expensive home!
 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/s...es/4126886.stm

UK boasts world's 'priciest home'
Updown Court at night (rear view)
Nearby facilities include racing at Ascot and polo at Smith's Lawn
An English mansion, which is on the market for more than £70m, has been named as the most expensive property in the world.

Updown Court, in Windlesham, north Surrey, has 103 rooms and sits in a 58-acre estate.

It also boasts more guest accommodation away from the main building, a private helipad and five swimming pools.

Forbes.com put the mansion at the top of its list of "the priciest residences on the planet" which are for sale.

The business and finance specialists surveyed the five most expensive properties on each continent, through property listings and contact with brokers and owners.


Updown Court - what is on offer
Bowling alley in the basement of Updown Court
22 bedroom and bathroom suites
Gate lodge and estate manager's office
Private cinema
Bowling alley
Squash and tennis courts
Stables
Heated marble driveway
Underground garaging for eight limousines

Marketing agents Savills and Hamptons International described Updown Court as "the most important private residence to be built in England since the 19th Century".

Forbes said the home was "totally over the top".

It was built in 2000 on the site of an earlier property owned during the 1970s by His Highness Prince Sami Gayed of Egypt.

Forbes said neighbours included the Queen at Windsor Castle and Sir Elton John.

Updown Court was said to be $50m (£28m) more expensive than the priciest American residence on the list.

There is one in Dallas worth more than that.

old news. its owned by a steele tycoon i believe

I'll take two.

I bet the white house is worth more.

I think that is just a for sale list.

There are estates on islands worth more than that.

how much is bill gates house worth?

Didn't some guy build a $100+ Million dollar mansion in the Hamptons?

yeh i heard about thats somewhere

People need to READ before commenting. This is the most expensive house that is FOR SALE in the world right now. Not the most expensive house in the world. Key words: FOR SALE

Nice house. Maybe Oprah is looking for an England estate?

The list of potential buyers for a house like this will be rather short. Anyone wanna go in halfsies with me? :winkwink:

here is one that sold for for $128,000,000.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4722789

£70m is $140m

where in this thread did u READ that?

figures it is in the UK...even a basic house is way too expensive

wow, maybe like a while back. At today's rates $128,000,000 = £72,120,832

about 100 million, give or take a couple million.

Damn..a little too rich for my blood..very nice though

Maybe this part?

WHICH ARE FOR SALE mean anything to ya?

200+ million. :)

It's Ira Rennerts house in the hamptons, I found this on it. not much there but anyhow..

http://www.kevcom.com/kevsnews/?m=20050228.1.19

big homes
 

I saw E news and it mentioned the $128 million one I think as #1
I saw that 6 months ago, doesn't mean it's accurate, just thought I'd comment.


I did also hear about a lady in Texas I think with 128 rooms or something
which is the biggest in the US

I don't know about that. Wealthy people like to show off their wealth.

That house has been on the market for years. It is a white elephant. It will never sell.

:winkwink:

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70£mill = 124mill USD

I think my home is better. http://www.duncombepark.com/

http://www.information-britain.co.uk...?Place_ID=2554
http://www.bbc.co.uk/northyorkshire/...ombe_war.shtml
http://www.aboutbritain.com/Duncombe...?RefID=1501835
http://www.touruk.co.uk/houses/house...e_duncombe.htm
http://www.gardenvisit.com/g/dun1.htm

http://koti.welho.com/rhurmal1/linnat2004/duncombe.jpg
http://www.dave-ford.co.uk/Photos/Duncombe_Park.jpg

http://www.vikingstudios.co.uk/ipix_...-new_media.htm
http://www.vikingstudios.co.uk/ipix_...ll-tourism.htm

Heated Marble driveway?? What an idiot.

I have a heated drive way. I do it for charity. Homeless people can get a bed that is heated. My drive way is 3 miles long.

Why is he an idiot? ALOT of people around me have heated driveways...hell my college has heated sidewalks and stairways...

I wouldn't mind living in that :winkwink:

I can bet a few ghost live there, they loose creepy :helpme