Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Sept 6, 2014 8:55:51 GMT -6
variety.com/2014/asia/worlds-most-expensive-home-resides-in-hong-kong-1201294098/
Even by Fortune 500 standards, the idea of a house selling for $105.67 million seems unheard of. But that’s what Sun Hung Kai Properties announced last month in reference to “a super-deluxe” house in Hong Kong’s ultra-exclusive Peak enclave that overlooks the city’s surrealistically high skyscrapers and gleaming harbor.
The pricetag amounts to $22,675 per square foot, which, by that measure, makes it the world’s most expensive home, according to the South China Morning Post.
Mind you, at 4,661 square feet of interior space, this is not the sort of “Downton Abbey”-scaled castle or sprawling Bel-Air estate one might associate with such a value. But the modernist structure’s location, on 12 Mount Kellett Road, in an area once reserved for non-Chinese residents and 1,800 feet above sea level, is the kind of rarefied realm that can only exist in this jewel box of a city.
Even by Fortune 500 standards, the idea of a house selling for $105.67 million seems unheard of. But that’s what Sun Hung Kai Properties announced last month in reference to “a super-deluxe” house in Hong Kong’s ultra-exclusive Peak enclave that overlooks the city’s surrealistically high skyscrapers and gleaming harbor.
The pricetag amounts to $22,675 per square foot, which, by that measure, makes it the world’s most expensive home, according to the South China Morning Post.
Mind you, at 4,661 square feet of interior space, this is not the sort of “Downton Abbey”-scaled castle or sprawling Bel-Air estate one might associate with such a value. But the modernist structure’s location, on 12 Mount Kellett Road, in an area once reserved for non-Chinese residents and 1,800 feet above sea level, is the kind of rarefied realm that can only exist in this jewel box of a city.