Mapping the 11 Most Expensive Listings in the U.S. Right Now
It's been a rough-and-tumble six months for blockbuster real estate. L.A.'s "unsellable" Fleur de Lys sold for $102M cash, a mansion in the Hamptons went for a record $147M, Huguette Clark's Connecticut estate (at long last!) has a new owner—and those are just the sales. Listings have been a whole other barrel of monkeys, what with Dallas' Crespi Estate, once the nation's priciest listing, getting a $47M price gutting and billionaire businessman William Koch listing his Aspen estate for $89.9M. Oh, and let's not even get started on the myriad of NYC listings all hovering in the $100M range. Here now, the nation's most expensive properties on the market right this very second.
1. Bel Air Canyon, $125MThe 258-acre Bel Air Canyon, a vast parcel of undeveloped land in one of the country's priciest neighborhoods, came up for sale this summer for a whopping $125M. That makes it the most expensive publicly listed property in Los Angeles County. (Fleur de Lys, a 35,000-square-foot megamansion, had most recently been asking exactly that price tag, though it sold this last March for $102M cash.) Anyway, located just north of, and across the 405 from, the Getty Center, this giant tract comprises 6 percent of the total land area of Bel Air. [link]
...MORE3. Vincent Viola Mansion, $114MIn mid-December, a 19th-century Manhattan townhouse hit the market for $114,077,000. Vincent Viola, the owner of the Florida Panthers, and his invitation designer wife, Teresa, bought the house for $20M in 2005 and have since festooned its 20,000 square feet with floors made from old railroad tiles, a Venetian-onyx elevator, and a 900-square-foot dining room dressed up with all the subtlety of Versailles (far from a new design strategy). There's also gold-leafed walls, a red velvet home theater, and every possible breed of marquetry and inlaid wood. [link]
Here's the Viola place:
