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kleinbl00  ·  2549 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Who Wants to Buy the Most Expensive House in America?

    But while Gilded Age mansions were built as family legacies to be passed down to future generations or endowed to universities, these tech-centric, ultramodern glass-and-marble behemoths are designed for living in the moment. They come furnished, often with artwork, wine and cars. Each represents a developer’s bet that an instant-gratification billionaire is willing to pay more for it than almost anyone else has ever paid for a personal residence before.

they thought about making that very point, then backed off a little.

Let's be honest: 100,000 square feet in the Hollywood Hills is going to be the ramshackle citadel of a Baja warlord in a hundred years.