Wednesday, June 19, 2013

The Most Expensive Homes Currently For Sale In America

From the Los Angeles Times' Money & Co. blog:

Copper Beech Farm
Copper Beech Farm, the waterfront mansion in Connecticut with 12 bathrooms and nine bedrooms, is priced at $190 million. (Realtor.com)
The most expensive homes in the U.S. right now are priced well above the $100-million mark, according to a compilation assembled by Forbes.

Topping the list at $190 million is Copper Beech Farm on 50 acres in Greenwich, Conn. The 1980s French Renaissance-style home of 13,519 square feet sits on the waterfront.

In Los Angeles' Holmby Hills area, Owlwood is being shopped outside the Multiple Listing Service at $150 million. The storied 10-acre estate, with former owners including Sonny and Cher and Tony Curtis, is being marketed through the Agency in Beverly Hills.

PHOTOS: Malibu estate listed at $57.5 million

A 25-acre spread in Dallas with 42,500 square feet of living space is asking $135 million....MORE
And from the linked Forbes article:
There are many reasons the de Guigne estate in Hillsborough, Calif., could be called a trophy property. For starters the 16,000-square-foot Mediterranean mansion was constructed a century ago and has remained within the same family since. Located at the end of a 4,500-foot driveway, the historic home has a grand ballroom, a flower arranging room and staff quarters that include two chauffeurs’ rooms.  But the property’s most unique feature isn’t the home itself – it’s the land.

Estate and Lands of deGuigne, Hillsborough CA Single Family Home - San Francisco Real EstateThe estate encompasses 47 prime acres 20 minutes south of San Francisco, halfway between the city and Silicon Valley. “This is the first time since this land was acquired 150 years ago by the de Guigne family that such a large amount of land in such a desirable location is coming to market,” says Gregg Lynn, a Sotheby’s International Realty agent co-listing the property with colleague Bernadette Lamothe. “In the town of Hillsborough all of its large estates have been subdivided over the last 50 years and this estate remains one of the only two [of this size] left.”...MORE

Estate and Lands of deGuigne, Hillsborough CA Single Family Home - San Francisco Real Estate
To the south of the Golden Gate Bridge, large parcels of land are rare. Located half-way between San Francisco & the Silicon Valley in the bucolic Town of Hillsborough, an approximately 16,000 sqft. Mediterranean-styled, Bliss & Faville mansion is positioned on approximately 47-acres which have been owned for 150 years by one family.