
02. Updown Court, England - The most
important private residence to be built in England since the 19th century ($150
million)


As well as 30 bedrooms the home would have 23 bathrooms with
spectacular views over Lake Butler, about 20 miles from Orlando. The hand-built
windows for the house cost more than £2m and other luxuries include a ballroom
and a children's theatre. There is a garage with enough space for 20 cars,
three swimming pools, a large boat house, formal gardens, and a one-story
gatehouse with an apartment. There is also a baseball field, two tennis courts,
a 60 foot by 120 foot Grand Hall with a 30-foot stained glass dome, two grand
staircases, a 37 foot by 30 foot kitchen, 10 satellite kitchens, a two-story
wine cellar and a rock grotto with three separate spas behind an 80-foot
waterfall. All 23 full bathrooms have full-sized Jacuzzis, 160 tripled paned
windows and Brazilian mahogany French-style doors that alone cost pds2.million.
The property was called Versailles as the entrance was
modeled after the Palace of Versailles in France.

This Beverly Hills mansion has been
adverti
sed for sale at $165m (£81.4m), making it one of the most expensive
residential property listed in the US. The former home of US newspaper tycoon
William Randolph Hearst has 29 bedrooms, three swimming pools, tennis courts,
its own cinema and a nightclub. He has decorated the property with statues
brought north from his famous Hearst Castle in San Simeon and with life-size
paintings of Davies. Mr. Hearst bought the H-shaped mansion in 1947 for about
$120,000. In 2007, the estate's current owner, who bought it in 1976, put the
home on the market for US$165 million. The home's buyer will have some notable
neighbours, including Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes and David and Victoria
Beckham.






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