http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/garden/the-smith-mansion-in-wyoming-is-the-stuff-of-legend.html?_r=0
Now $195 million is the highest price ever asked for a house. Do you think Oprah will go for it? They assume a foreigner will purchase the property.
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Now $195 million is the highest price ever asked for a house. Do you think Oprah will go for it? They assume a foreigner will purchase the property.
IF the following is correct, then I suspect it will be on the market for a Long time.....
" It sold for $35,000,000 back in 2007 to hedge fund manager Jeff Greene. The $35,000,000 final sale price made this home the 3rd highest sales price in the history of Los Angeles and Beverly Hills."
- So only an increase of value of 5.5 x in 7-ish years ? Maybe I'll put my house on the market for 196 mil, it's very similar except for the size and location.
Quote: mickeycrimmIf I could afford a mansion I would build it on a mountain overlooking the Bob Marshall Wilderness with a panoramic view of the Continental Divide in the background.
If I could afford a mansion I would buy a giant chunk of Southern Montana and live in a cabin.
Quote: FaceIf I could afford a mansion I would buy a giant chunk of Southern Montana and live in a cabin.
Much more my idea of luxury. Who needs a dozen bedrooms and a bunch of fancy crap? Just more cleaning and more s$%t to get stolen in a burglary. Give me a simple house on an incredible site. Mine would include mountains and be located on a stony stream, where I can listen to the water rush and the fish jump. Lots of deciduous trees and pine. NWMountain area, almost has to be, but on the west side of a mountain range; not that fond of the high deserts of Eastern Washington. The one man-made luxury would probably be an indoor (glassed to the outside) lap pool w/hot tub.
Quote: 1BBAre there any realtors on the forum? What would the commission be on a $195 million home. Is it negotiable? Percentage or flat fee?
I doubt that there would be any relation to a normal fee. There would undoubtedly be some fixed fee to cover expenses, and a graduated fee based on how much they get for the property.
There is no realistic way to price the most expensive house ever sold. There are no comparable homes.
Look at the house two doors away in comparison:
9567 Lania Ln, Beverly Hills, CA 90210 3 beds 4 baths 2,711 sqft SOLD: $2.5M Sold on 03/09/12 Lot: 0.3 acres Built in 1952
9505 Lania Ln, Beverly Hills, CA 90210 12 beds 14 baths 43,000 sqft Sold: $35M Sold on 02/08/07 Lot 25 acres, Built in 2002
As someone pointed out why would you pay $195m for a 12 year old house that was bought for $35m only 7 years ago. People who have that kind of money probably prefer to build their own house. You can afford to have crews work triple shift and finish a sizeable mansion in less than a year.
I know it is 25 acres, but that is a fortune per acre.
This house looks like a hotel
Look how much prettier Bill Gates's house is for about the same amount of money.
I know a writer who has been doing that for seven years... or as close as she can get on her income of twenty grand per year. She Winters in such places as a Caribbean island, an underground house (Earthship) or a "tiny cabin". The Earthship and the tiny cabin were on over six thousand and ten thousand acre plots of New Mexico. As a Winter Caretaker she had thousands of acres in which to hike or ride and she was getting paid for it.Quote: FaceIf I could afford a mansion I would buy a giant chunk of Southern Montana and live in a cabin.
One Discovery Channel show now features McCarthy, Alaska, a once rough and tumble assemblage of bars and brothels but now a small town of 43 residents. One blogger recently chose a small abandoned cabin near that town to live in for a while and think things out as she enjoyed virtually an entire mountain range in which to wander rather than the restraints of a forty acre farm.
Western Washington sounds great. I liked the town of Forks and the Hoh Rainforest but I think 120 inches a year just might be too much precipitation for me. Port Angeles, Sequim, Grey's Harbor seemed better choices. Or a place such as Anatole, WA which listed on its Population sign: People 28, Dogs 22, Cats 13, Horses 17.
One mansion in the Columbia River Gorge area solved the problem of excessive heat from south facing glass by having a long array of curved windows, none of them focused on the same point. Rather than pay an architect and contractor for some fancy curved glass, one woman with large amounts of south facing glass solved the problem with a tiny bubble making machine and one package of Dawn dish detergent per Summer. I don't need a mansion in the wilderness, just a few creature comforts such as an endless pool and an automatic dishwasher. I'd want a combo coffee and bagel maker in the mornings though set on a timer. even if it had to be off the grid.
Or of course there is Fata Morgana, a catamaran that hosted a Bulgarian family on an around the world adventure that was so cheap the couple are now stars on Bulgarian television. Some anarchist acquaintances used a warehouse in which they were squatting to refurbish a large yacht and decided that instead of squatting homes and commercial buildings they would squat the Sea. Much cheaper and fewer cops. A few more dangers though, but they seem to relish that part.
Quote:Ascaya, the long-delayed luxury-home community blasted out of the Henderson mountains, is getting its first house.
The 11,000-square-foot mansion will have six bedrooms, eight bathrooms, a basement and an outdoor courtyard, according to a news release.
Hong Kong tycoon Henry Cheng built the project site during the boom years last decade but pulled the plug during the recession. He left behind dozens of empty, tiered pads carved into the McCullough Range.
http://vegasinc.com/news/2015/jul/06/first-luxury-home-being-built-henderson-mountains/