The most expensive house on Earth is up for sale in the south of France
The Villa Les Cèdres is a 187-year-old mansion for sale along the coast of Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat in the south of France and it's officially the most expensive house in the world.
Bloomberg reports that the mansion itself covers 18,000-square-foot of the total 35-acre plot. It boasts 14 bedrooms that are all gilded and gorgeous.
Built in 1830, The Villa Les Cèdres was originally purchased in 1850 to be put to use as a working olive tree farm owned by the mayor of Villefranche-sur-Mer. From there, it was sold by the mayor's family to the Belgian King Leopold II in 1904, who, as Bloomberg explains, was "made stupendously rich by his exploitation of mineral resources and rubber trees in the Congo Free State (now the Democratic Republic of Congo)."
After Leopold's death, Villa Les Cèdres was acquired by the Marnier-Lapostolle in 1924. They're best known for making the delicious Grand Marnier liqueur, a blend of cognac and triple sec, and loved to cultivate exotic plants on the ground.
It was in the family until 2016, when Davide Campari-Milano acquired Société des Produits Marnier Lapostolle (SPML), Grand Marnier's parent company.
It is listed at $410 million (£310 million), and is being handled by a steering committee of five family members from Marnier and Di Fede.
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