Some of the greatest, largest, most exqisite, most expensive homes in the world are on the market, but before you write out that initial deposit, remember your place in the world. Let's take you on a journey to visit the modern palaces. Here's countdown of the most expensive houses in the world.
So start the journey with ascending order of the extravagant houses in the world.
Duke Semans Mansion---- Fift avenue, Manhattan, New York
Owner-Carlos Helu Slim
Net worth- $88 million
This Mansion is build in 1915 and tripled by its most famous owner James Buchanan Duke, The Duke Mansion has been home and host to leaders of the 20th century.
The Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim lists Manhattan Townhouse for $80 million, with the average price of an apartment in Manhattan now comfortably nested over $1 million, many New Yorkers are pretty blase about all those zeros. This Fifth Avenue property is a 20,000 square-foot Duke Semans Mansions, located at 1009 Fifth Avenue in New York. The house is a 8-storey building with French Renaissance interior. The house is tagged on a sale for $88 million, if that goes through it will the most expensive house in New york.
The 8 -storey, 20,000-square-foot Beaux-Arts building with French Renaissance interior is one of those landmark mansions that has its own name or, in this case, names. It features high ceilings, gold-leaf trimmed fixtures, and a sweeping staricase, it has grand, well-lighted rooms, 11 marble fireplaces, three elevators and a sweeping brass and wroughty-iron-staircase.
Deal will be surely most expensive in New York.
Fourteen interested parties have visited the property and three have bid on it, according to Sharon Baum, a senior vice president with the Corcoran Group, who is sharing the listing with Paula Del Nunzio and Shirley Mueller of Brown Harris Stevens. All three brokers and members of the Semans family declined to identify a prospective buyer, and all said no deal had been made final.
Carlos slim is world's 4 the most richest person, and after selling the Mansion he is about $90 million richer. He said at the time he considered the house an investment and wouldn’t live there. Built from 1899-1901, the mansion has a French Renaissance interior and was originally owned by an American Tobacco Company tycoon,
