Selling of the magnificent mansion Chateau Louis XIV in the suburbs of Paris for € 275 million has become a new world record price. It should be noted that this amount was not paid for the historic mansion, but for newly built chateau carried out on the patterns of the era of Louis XIV. The buyer from the Middle East remained anonymous.
The mansion is located in an area of 56 acres (23 hectares), between Versailles and Marly-le-Roi. The house includes an aquarium, cinema, wine cellar and a fountain in the park covered with gold leaf.
The previous record price belonged to the penthouse in London - the amount of the transaction, completed in 2011, was $ 221 million. Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov was not able to break this record - at the time he planned to buy a mansion in the south of France for € 390 million. (The famous Villa Leopold), but he refused the deal, and according to the agreement lost 10% of the transaction amount.
According to the materials of Bloomberg.com
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