One Hyde Park penthouse is one of the most expensive properties priced at £140 million. It has a premium location with the famous number 1 Hyde Park address, Knightsbridge. It has been built as a home for the rich and famous complete with SAS guard, bullet proof windows, iris scanners, panic rooms and a secret tunnel to the nearby Mandarin Hotel. The building has communal spas, squash courts and wine tasting rooms, and the penthouse is served by 24 hour room service.

The six-bedroom apartment stretches across two floors and boasts bullet-proof windows, a panic room and views across the Serpentine. The new owners will also have access to 24-hour room service from the neighboring Mandarin Oriental hotel, and protection from SAS-trained security guards.
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Sea Lane Drive in Malibu property, owned by Max Palevsky, computer technology pioneer, the founder of the giant Intel, who died at the age of 85 this March, is up for sale. The two-storey villa designed by Joe Weiser in 1975 is spread above 10,000 square meters. It is priced at $55 million.

The master suite has twain fireplaces. There are twain side-by-side pools, a sauna and a private terrace with speakers to hear to music. All bathrooms of the house were made with valuable ceramics from island of Catalina. The house also has an auditorium and a gargantuan dining room with wooden ceiling of roots. The room has a gorgeous sea sight above the inevitable fire.

The floor of the house is a combine of tiles and wood, with inlays as well as habit rugs. The house is surrounded by a very lofty wall. There is a tennis woo lights as well as a swimming pool close Olympic.
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According to the Wall Street Journal some Indonesian buyer is going to buy a ten-bedroom 48,000-square-foot mansion in Bel Air, California for around $50 million. It would set a record for the top sale in the U.S. The previous record was set by Texas energy executive Kelcy Warren’s $46.5 million buy in Colorado in April. The 10-bedroom, 14-bathroom home sits on 2.2 acres. It has a ballroom seating more than 200, a music room, a swan pond, rose gardens, an infinity pool, large spa, outdoor kitchen with a pizza oven, fireplaces and courtyard dining for 100 guests.

The home has a reception hall, formal living and dining rooms, an informal dining room, a family room with a bar lounge, a music room, a library, 5,000 bottle wine cellar and tasting room, a ballroom, commercial kitchen, screening room, game room and a Moroccan room. The seller is Los Angeles developer Mohamed Hadid, who constructed Ritz-Carlton hotels in the 1980s and now builds massive homes in L.A., Mexico and elsewhere. Mr. Hadid has said he spent $59 million to build the home for his own use. The buyer’s identity could not be learned.
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Celebrity American rapper and producer Kanye West has put for sale his three-story, 4,214-square foot home in Los Angeles, CA. He bought the property for $1.75 million in 2003. West envisioned the house to be “a cross between a museum and a Louis Vuitton boutique.” Materials used on the floors include travertine and French walnut. The kitchen was designed to have a lounge-like look and the ceilings were raised to have the feel of a loft.

Anyone into shoes might drool over his closet, which features 8-foot-high sliding racks for West’s collection of athletic shoes, said to number close to 200. Ultra-modern, the rapper’s domicile comes with a bathtub in one of his three-and-a-half bathrooms that has a large vertical fish tank on it on one end. The house has three bedrooms, a living room and a dining room with a huge acrylic on the ceiling of West himself. Price: $3,995,000 on Realtor.com.
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Modern Homes Worldwide, boutique of world’s most expensive houses, offers to exotic islands amateurs a range of contemporary villas situated on Shoal Bay Anguilla island in the Caribbean. There are 33 beaches on Anguilla, surrounded by tropical landscapes. Three sensational villas are presented on Anguilla. ‘The Russian Amethyst’, ‘The Brazilian Emerald’ and ‘The African Sapphire’ villas were designed by modern architect Myron Goldfinger.

They were built for outdoor living with beach front terrace, personal pool, hot tub and private tennis court. Each villa is named after a gemstone and country from which the precious gem originates. The villa interiors are influenced by the culture of the chosen country. The three individually designed residences are now being offered for private ownership. Prices range from US$18 million.
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Anglo-American actress Mischa Barton has put her Beverly Hills home for sale because of her financial troubles. She bought this 7,600 square foot, 6 bedroom, 10 bathroom Hollywood estate for $6.4 million in 2005.

The Tuscan-style property, located in an exclusive private nearly Sunset Strip and Rodeo Drive, features a family style kitchen, ascending staircase, a swimming pool and spa, terrace with canyon views and a media room. Asking price: $8.4million.
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James Franco, American actor, model and film producer, starred in Spider-Man, Pineapple Express, Milk, Tristan & Isolde and other movies, has just sold his Sunset-Strip home in Los Angeles for $3.3 million. He bought this Spanish style villa in 2006 for $2.325 million. 

Built in 1923 and boasting gorgeous views of the city, vaulted and beamed ceilings, a swimming pool, guesthouse, and custom marble bathtub, it has three bedrooms and three and a half bathrooms in 4,000 square feet.
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Kurt Rappaport, top realtor, co-founder of the Beverly Hills-based Westside Estate Agency, put for sale his Beverly Hills home near the Beverly Hills Hotel. This most expensive house was designed by renown Hollywood decorator Waldo Fernandez. Beverly Hills 8 bedroom estate contains 9 ½ bathrooms, a gym, wine cellar, and a theater. It occupies nearly three-quarters of an acre and is approximately 15,000 square feet.

In additional to all the bedrooms, bathrooms, and extra amenities, the house also has flat lawns, a guest house, gardens, and an infinity pool. In 2008, Rappaport bought the house for $13.2 million and put it back on the market in February for a generous amount of $28.5 million. This transaction was the highest in Beverly Hills, since he sold his last home to Tom Cruise for $30.5 million. Today the residence is available for about $24 million.
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The villa, located in a secluded area of Cap Antibes, Southern France is up for sale. It is an exceptional modernist masterpiece designed in 1961 by one of France’s most renowned architects Claude Parent, who was awarded the Grand Prix National d’Architecture in 1979. This most expensive house is an incredible, experimental and iconic piece of architecture.

The villa is a statement of avant-garde architecture with extensive use of raw concrete, glass walls and a spectacular exterior staircase. The modernist villa boasts stunning panoramic views of both the Bay of Antibes and Golfe-Juan. It features 250m² of living space and sits on a 1,050 m² plot of land. There are 4 bedrooms. The modernist 4 floor villa is available for sale from Modern Homes Worldwide.
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