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[EveryoneBleedsGarnet]

14 mil?...pssshhh. I was on a offshore fishing charter out of Hillsborough Inlet back in April and we cruised by the country's most expensive, listed house at $139 mil and 60,500 sq ft. The 1st mate told us it was being built by a construction owner who made his bank off of concrete sales in NYC after Sept.11. He said it had a full bowling alley and shooting range going in it among other things.

http://www.latimes.com/business/rea...tprop-most-expensive-home-20140905-story.html

Surrounded by a gate that is decorated with 22-karat gold leaf, the house includes a $2 million marble staircase, a subterranean garage that can accommodate 30 cars and an 18-seat IMAX home theater with a 50-foot-wide screen. There are three master suites and a presidential suite, each with its own Jacuzzi in a windowed circular rotunda (the presidential suite also has a plunge pool on an outdoor terrace).

Outside, there is a 4,500-square-foot infinity pool with salt, chlorine and UV filtering as well as an LED-lit, double-loop waterslide. Suspended above the pool is a glass-bottomed Jacuzzi. "It's supposed to feel like you're floating over the pool," said Mr. Madera.


The entire home was built to be soundproof. The home's South African marble floors were insulated specifically so the clacking of high heels will be muted, added William Pierce of Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate, who has the listing. The house is built with an elaborate security system as well as kennels for guard dogs on the lower level. The house sits on 4.4-acres with 465 feet of waterfront on the Atlantic Ocean and 492 feet of waterfront on the Intracoastal Waterway.

I guess I could live there for a few weeks out of the year.

 

[Zeek99]

The cream colored monster of house posted above lacks landscaping.

Out of everything posted above I still like the 14 million house in Tarpon Springs. The pool and the entertainment rooms along with the landscaping and separate guest house are what like over the overs. They are all gody...so no avoiding that with any of them.

To be fair the monster is still under construction. I got a semi tour of it for work a few weeks ago. Still a lot of work left to be done.

 

[seminole97]

a subterranean garage that can accommodate 30 cars

In Florida, that seems.... unwise.

 

[jeffy]

So question... In the Zombie apocalypse would it be smart to commandeer one of these vacant (or non vacant just throw out the current owners) mansions and bunker down?

Try to find Bill Murray's house.

 

[2noles1cup]

Could you imagine authorizing your accountant to write that kind of check every year just to cover taxes?

I'd have to run a church out of the house, or house some NFL offices, to get that tax exempt status!

If you're smart, you pay it with your Amex delta and automatically become gold status without flying a mile.

 

[RunRonnieRun]

If you're smart, you pay it with your Amex delta and automatically become gold status without flying a mile.

Amex MQMs cap at 30k / yr.

Do you even SkyMiles, bro?

 

[noleclone2]

HOLY CRAP! That was incredible. $14 million doesn't seem that bad at all after seeing that tour.

So here is, to me, the mind blowing thing. There are a ton of billionaires now. And many of them are now billionaires many many times over. So let's take not take an extreme like Bill Gates (worth 80 billion), but one of the poor 25-40 billionaires. Say you have a mere 25 thousand million. Buying this place to them, in our world terms;

it's like having 1k in checking and 24k in mutual funds, and spending 14 bucks buying two lattes and a cake pop at Starbucks.

 

[2noles1cup]

Amex MQMs cap at 30k / yr.

Do you even SkyMiles, bro?

Not the reserve card

 

[seminole97]

$350k in San Fran will get you this beaut:

2 bedroom, 1 bath, 765 square feet of heaven.

 

[goldmom]

So here is, to me, the mind blowing thing. There are a ton of billionaires now.

The latest tally of actual billionaires in the USA is just 536 as of last month. Talk about your 1% of the top half of the top quarter of one tenth of a percent! I think if you look at the number of super premium properties in the US, there are far more than 536. Either mere multimillionaires or lots of foreigners are propping up that market. I think it's a combination of all three.

 

[AdNole]

Dan, I think the word you are looking for is "gaudy".

 

[RTM58]

That's appreciation...

The Evans Report, which details quarterly sales of Palm Beach homes, shows that the median price for a single-family home totaled $3.375 million in the second quarter, up 13.4 percent from $2.975 million a year earlier. In the biggest sale of the first six months of this year, hedge fund star Paul Tudor Jones bought the home at 1300 South Ocean Boulevard for $71.2 million from Dwight Schar, founder of homebuilder NVR.

 

[DanC78]

$350k in San Fran will get you this beaut:

2 bedroom, 1 bath, 765 square feet of heaven.

This can't be true.

 

[DFSNOLE]

This can't be true.

It's true if the dirt beneath the house is worth that.

 

[NoleFan2U]

So here is, to me, the mind blowing thing. There are a ton of billionaires now. And many of them are now billionaires many many times over. So let's take not take an extreme like Bill Gates (worth 80 billion), but one of the poor 25-40 billionaires. Say you have a mere 25 thousand million. Buying this place to them, in our world terms;

it's like having 1k in checking and 24k in mutual funds, and spending 14 bucks buying two lattes and a cake pop at Starbucks.

Good perspective.

 

[DanC78]

It's true if the dirt beneath the house is worth that.

that was my thought...but from the appearances of it's surrondings, that still seemed high.

who knows....it is California

 

[RunRonnieRun]

Not the reserve card

Yes the reserve card. 15k MQMs at $30,000 spent; another 15k MQMs at $60,000 spent. Hit my second threshold back in July, and I'm done for the year. Can't earn any more MQMs. Regular miles, yes, but they don't do anything for Medallion status.

 

[JohnnieHolmesNole]

I'm far more enamored of old interesting Florida homes like the earliest builds down in the Gables and the Grove. These silly new Edifice Rex faux Tuscan caverns aren't really interesting to me.

All nouveaux riche......

 

[Fijimn]

My step-sisters new empty nester house in Laguna Beach - only 10.5. However we can't visit because the poors can't park the RV out front.

 

[billyfsu76]

I drive pass houses like that in Ocean Ridge and Palm Beach all the time. One in particular is owned by Al Malnick. People always ask me who owns it, and I tell them Oprah.

I didn't know who Al Malnick was so I searched his name online and this was one of the first photos of him that popped up.

 

[More Kirk Less Spock]

I like that the guest house was 6,000 sq feet. You need your guests to be comfortable.

 

[naughtynole]

I didn't know who Al Malnick was so I searched his name online and this was one of the first photos of him that popped up.

He was pretty good friends with Michael Jackson. Also has 10 kids from a couple of marriages. There should be a picture of his Ocean Ridge house online. Actually two houses. Both right next to each other.

 

[RTM58]

Here are some more exterior pictures of entrepreneur Alvin Malnik’s mega mansion located at 6301 N Ocean Boulevard in Ocean Ridge, FL. Alvin is a lawyer, real estate mogul, restaurateur, entertainment impresario and financial advisor. These pictures are from he hosted a charity event at his house for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. The main house is 38,000 square feet and the new addition (which houses an Asian gallery and children’s playroom) is 18,000 square feet, bringing the total to a gargantuan 56,000 square feet!

I wouldn't want to live in Boynton, but good for him. Property Appraiser only has like 28k under air. I did get the Oprah joke.
http://tiny.cc/fb6r3x

 

[Fijimn]

Looks like the Catalina Wine Mixer.

 

[RTM58]

Worse...they're Miamians

 

[naughtynole]

Worse...they're Miamians

RTM, that's it. Called Beau Arts. You can't see it all that well, but the house on the left is also his. It has a blue tennis court right in front. It took four years just to build the smaller one.

 

[RTM58]

I'm thinking mansions are overrated. Ranches and Hunting/Fishing lodges is where it's at.

IX Ranch
This is a legacy ranch – it is huge, has a long history of stable ownership and a highly respected reputation in reputation ranch country. Its central Montana location is 87 miles northeast of Great Falls and adjacent to the town of Big Sandy. The current owners are the second owners in the ranch’s 126 year history. This professionally managed operation runs a cattle herd of 4,300. They traditionally go into the winter with around 3,500 bred cows and 600 heifer calves – plus an appropriate number of bulls and ranch horses together with 5,000 tons of winter feed. The operation covers over 126,000 acres, of which 59,809 is deeded and the majority of the balance being State grazing leases

Crazy D Ranch


The Crazy D Ranch is one of those rare Montana ranches for sale with the size and agricultural production to be a viable farming and livestock operation while also providing excellent wild trout fisheries, upland bird hunting and big game hunting. The ranch also has one of the rarest of amenities for a western ranch, an approximate 335 acre private reservoir perfectly suited for water skiing and jet ski family fun on hot summer days. Combine that with quality improvements and stunning views of the Absaroka and Crazy Mountains and you have a highly desirable ranch.

The ranch is comprised of approximately 12,169 deeded acres, another 640 acres of State of Montana grazing lease and 6 pivots with approximately 1,082 acres under pivot irrigation providing an excellent hay base.

 

[GoNolesTX]

So the guy selling the Tarpon Springs "home" made his money by selling his title company? I've been in title over a dozen years, I'm doing SOMEthing wrong.

 

[Formerly Rockymtnole]

I didn't know who Al Malnick was so I searched his name online and this was one of the first photos of him that popped up.

Creepy pic. Michael is really checking that kid out.

 

[DanC78]

Creepy pic. Michael is really checking that kid out.

very creepy

 

[F4Gary]

Why would someone build a $20 million dollar home with only a 3 car garage? Dumb.

 

[alaskanseminole]

$350k in San Fran will get you this beaut:

2 bedroom, 1 bath, 765 square feet of heaven.

Unreal. That will get you 3,500 sq ft + in San Antonio.