Most expensive apartments

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Most Expensive Apartment
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One Hyde Park penthouse

• The four penthouse apartments atop Londons most
  luxurious address sold well before its
  construction finished. The buildings, developed
  by Candy Candy and funded by Qatars foreign
  minister, include eighty apartments designed by
  architect Richard Rogers. It features communal
  spas, squash courts, a private wine-tasting
  facility and a top notch security force staffed
  by former members of the British SAS. The
  building cost Â1.5 billion (around 3 billion
  USD in 2008) to develop.

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La Belle Epoque penthouse

• This Monacan apartment is perhaps best known as
  the apartment where Lebanese banker Edmond
  Safras life was claimed in an act of arson
  perpetrated by his nurse. Despite its grisly
  past, the penthouse at Le Belle Epoque (literally
  The Beautiful Era) has become not only the
  worlds most expensive apartment but also the
  worlds most expensive private residence. Its
  noteworthy amenities include a game room with
  billiards tables and arcade games, a Jacuzzi and
  spa, cinema screens hidden in the walls, a
  two-storey library and a media room with chairs
  that convert into beds. Its security features
  include a panic room with reinforced glass and
  surveillance cameras.

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Most Expensive Homes Ever Sold
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Donald Trumps Palm Beach mansion

• The Donald takes pride in having sold this
  beautiful 68,000-square-foot mansion at a time
  when the real estate market is doing poorly.
  Trump purchased the mansionand the seven acres
  of beachfront it sits onin 2004 for less than
  half of what he sold it for.

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Lakshmi Mittals Kensington Palace Gardens mansion

• Steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal was widely reported
  to have purchased this property on one of
  Londons most exclusive streets for Â70 million
  (126 million at the time). As it happened, the
  Indian tychoon paid only Â57,145,967 for the
  mansionstill enough to put the mansion on the
  list of the most expensive houses ever sold.

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Victorian Villa, West London

• Purchased in February of 2008 by a Ukrainian
  businesswoman, this five-story Victorian villa
  was used as a girls school until it was
  purchased by developers in 2006. The luxurious
  residential dwelling has over ten bedrooms and an
  underground swimming pool. It also includes a
  gym, a sauna, a theatre and a panic room to be
  used in case of emergency. It was sold for Â80
  million (almost 159 million US), displacing the
  Kensington Palace Gardens home of Lakshmi Mittal
  as the most expensive house ever sold. With
  Mikhail Prokhorov supposedly reneging on a deal
  to purchase La Leopolda, below, it has retained
  that title.