Indoor shooting ranges, giant pools, hair salons, ballrooms and bars. Castles with turret libraries and oceanfront estates with enough room to park a 100-foot yacht. These are just some of the things the most expensive homes in the United States have.
Only the richest of the rich can afford these homes. They are the most expensive home in each of America’s 50 states, plus Washington, D.C. And sometimes the buyers can afford some truly enviable (and occasionally gaudy) properties.
So take a look and gawk or guffaw at these multimillion-dollar homes for sale from all around the country.
Alabama
Note: Only non-commercial properties were eligible for this story, so places like hotels, farms and resorts were not included, as were properties where the amount of land was the singular reason for the price point. Houses were selected mainly from searchable online databases. It’s possible that some super-expensive private or "whisper" listings exist but didn’t make the list.
Price: $6.995 million
Location: Birmingham
Size: 7,584 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: 4 beds, 5 baths
Acres: 3.9
Special features: Resort-style pool, artist's studio, wrought iron railings, antique hardware, five fireplaces, huge courtyard, tons of chandeliers, full gaming/pool room, wine cellar and tasting room, home theater, gardens.
Alaska
Price: $3.9 million
Location: Anchor Point
Size: 4,322 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: 5 beds, 3 baths
Acres: 5.6 acres
Special features: Ocean beachfront, golf course adjacent, floor-to-ceiling windows, imported Italian floor tiles.
Arizona
Price: $32 million
Location: Scottsdale
Size: 15,534 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: 8 beds, 10 baths
Acres: 3.17
Special features: Indoor shooting range arcade/gaming area, full bar, wine room, massive fireplaces, huge study, hot tub with sweeping desert views.
Arkansas
Price: $10.9 million
Location: Fort Smith
Size: 18,367 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: 5 beds, 5 baths
Acres: 20
Special features: Massive butterfly staircase with wrought iron rails, custom Italian mantles, card room, marble flooring, Baccarat chandeliers, 2,400 square-foot game room with circle bar, children's play room with indoor tree house.
California
Price: $245 million
Location: Bel Air
Size: 25,000 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: 11 beds, 18 baths
Acres: 6.5
Special features: 75-foot pool, 40 vehicle "car gallery," 12,000 bottle wine cellar, gardens, tennis court, five-bedroom guest house.
Colorado
Price: $37 million
Location: Aspen
Size: 14,000 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: 7 beds, 8 baths
Acres: 8.6
Special features: Located above the X Games' SuperPipe, home theater with 11 recliner chairs and full bar, wine tasting room, billiards room, gym, library, two hot tubs, several suits of armor statues.
Connecticut
Price: $120 million
Location: Darien
Size: 13,107 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: 9 beds, 6 baths (main home)
Acres: 63.5
Special features: Your own island compound with one mile of coastline, manor house, 19th century farmhouse, seaside cottage, caretaker house, guest house, white sand beach with beach houses, equestrian center with 18-stall granite stable, dock with room for a 100-foot yacht.
Delaware
Price: $14.9 million
Location: Rehoboth Beach
Size: 7,800 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: 7 beds, 5 baths
Acres: 0.94
Special features: Oceanfront property, antique tile floors, wood-burning fireplaces, gourmet kitchen, travertine tiles, wet bar, courtyard with fountain.
Florida
Price: $109.5 million
Location: Palm Beach
Size: 28,399 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: 8 beds, 9 bathrooms
Acres: 2.03
Special features: Located on “Billionaire’s Row,” massive pool and center courtyard, dozens of Roman columns, flush with marble, more space than you’ll ever need.
Georgia
Price: $21 million
Location: Atlanta
Size: 34,688 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: 7 bedrooms, 9-plus bathrooms
Acres: 17
Special features: Underground ballroom, 70,000-gallon infinity pool, tennis court, professional-grade gym, spa, theater, indoor resistance pool, wine cellar, guest house, Chattahoochee River frontage, massive two-floor study, basement with insane ceilings.
Hawaii
Price: $52 million
Location: Kailua-Kona
Size: 12,584 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: 10 beds, 11 baths
Acres: 1.56
Special features: Compound of six properties, pools, tons of handmade features, lighted shoreline and secrecy — qualified buyers must sign an NDA to view a video and photo library.
Idaho
Price: $21.5 million
Location: Ketchum
Size: 10,067 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: 7 beds, 9 baths
Acres: 292
Special features: Your own private mountain, sleek modern features, six-bay garage, floating fireplace, walls of glass, guest house, pool, guest house, tennis court.
Illinois
Price: $45 million
Location: Chicago
Size: 25,000 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: 6 beds, 7-plus baths
Acres: 0.61
Special features: Parcel totals eight city lots, multiple fountains, reflecting pool, antique garden pavilion, grand winding staircase, massive study, classy hotel-style bar.
Indiana
Price: $5.8 million
Location: Indianapolis
Size: 20,710 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: 6 beds, 8 baths
Acres: 3.1
Special features: 1930s-era renovated estate, Lilly pool, 300-year-old fireplaces, antique chandeliers, English walnut library, oak floors, giant kitchen, tennis court, pool, pool house, gardens with waterfall and stream.
Iowa
Price: $2.95 million
Location: Marion
Size: 7,934 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: 5 beds, 5.5 baths
Acres: 26.69
Special features: Huge gym, large pool, pool house, catwalk, multi-level patios, two air-conditioned garages, outside fireplace, full bar, cherry wood cabinetry, wraparound driveway.
Kansas
Price: $8.5 million
Location: Mission Hills
Size: 12,360 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: 5 beds, 6.5-plus baths
Acres: N/A
Special features: French country estate with five fireplaces, wine cellar, home theater, game room, outside cooking ranges.
Kentucky
Price: $25 million
Location: Whitesville
Size: 27,000 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: 14 beds, 12 baths
Acres: 750
Special features: Massive estate on 750 acres with a 60-acre lake, tenant home and an 8,000 square-foot commercial building. Two tennis courts, huge pool with pool house, boating docks and picnic areas.
Louisiana
Price: $8.25 million
Location: New Orleans
Size: 12,365 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: 8 beds, 8 baths
Acres: N/A
Special features: Smack dab in the middle of the French Quarter, parking for 15 cars, room-sized closets. Get an inside look here.
Maine
Price: $12.5 million
Location: Bar Harbor
Size: 15,000 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: 8 beds, 9 baths
Acres: 9
Special features: Historic 1910-built mega manse on Frenchman Bay with fourteen-foot ceilings, grand Ionic columns, marble foyer, hand painted murals and old-world details.
Maryland
Price: $22.5 million
Location: Chevy Chase
Size: 13,900 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: 7 beds, 7 baths
Acres: 1.91
Special features: 100-year-old estate with 22 rooms including a mahogany library, music room and confusingly large grand ballroom. Lots of painted glass windows and a number of unique ceilings. Huge 1920s-style pool in the backyard.
Massachusetts
Price: $45 million
Location: Boston
Size: 13,256 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: 8 beds, 12 baths
Acres: N/A
Special features: Sleek 60th-floor condo with 360 degree views of Boston Harbor with rooftop deck, bar, modern art, giant seating areas and wave-pattern ceiling. Perfect lair for overpaid investment bankers.
Michigan
Price: $10.55 million
Location: Bloomfield Township
Size: 10,108 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: 6 beds, 8 bathrooms
Acres: 1.79
Special features: Gargantuan brick Italian villa with a car wash in its eight-car garage, two-story library, gym, movie theater, hand-painted wall and ceiling murals, sauna, bar, massive courtyard with pool and a tower with its very own spiraling staircase.
Minnesota
Price: $14.895 million
Location: Deephaven
Size: 18,007 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: 5 beds, 7 baths
Acres: 1.81
Special features: Titanic 2012-built mega property with an indoor bowling alley, indoor golf simulator, indoor "music club," indoor half court, movie theater, full gym, huge bar and a double-island kitchen. Built on the highest point near Lake Minnetonka so you can purify yourself in its waters.
Mississippi
Price: $6.5 million
Location: Pass Christian
Size: 21,2970 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: 15 beds, 11 baths
Acres: 7.88
Special features: U-shaped plantation-style house overlooking the Gulf of Mexico with enormous rooms, sweeping staircases and loads of Southern charm.
Missouri
Price: $12.5 million
Location: Steelville
Size: N/A
Beds and full bathrooms: 3 beds, 2 baths (main cabin)
Acres: 1,910
Special features: Your very own self-contained five-mile railroad and private steam engines (including a train museum and a three-story train station), gas station, observation towers and shooting houses. Houses include a main cabin, lake house, main lodge, caretaker's home and several other structures.
Montana
Price: $25 million
Location: Big Sky
Size: 8,219 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: Five beds, five baths
Acres: 491
Special features: Mega cabin manse located on Big Sky Resort with a two-story fireplace, tons of custom woodwork, majestic mountain views and acres upon acres of privacy.
Nebraska
Price: $3.75 million
Location: Elkhorn
Size: 10,572 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: Five beds, 10 baths
Acres: 13.05
Special features: Massive 2000-built estate with an indoor sauna, gym, infinity pool, three wet bars, wine cellar, theater and billiards room. Hunting trophies may or may not be included.
Nevada
Price: $75 million
Location: Crystal Bay
Size: 16,232 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: 8 beds, 10 baths
Acres: 5.14
Special features: Ludicrously large mountainside estate with two funiculars, two elevators, four buoys, 13 fireplaces, a 10-seat theater, a 1,687-bottle wine cellar and garden-filled grounds.
New Hampshire
Price: $7.49 million
Location: Barrington
Size: 14,918 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: 4 beds, 5 baths
Acres: 600
Special features: Farmhouse with a commercially designed kitchen, trophy room (with a desk once owned by Rupert Murdoch), observatory, elevator, game room, solarium and four-lane indoor Olympic-sized pool.
New Jersey
Price: $36 million
Location: Alpine
Size: 30,000 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: 12 beds, 15 baths
Acres: N/A
Special features: Mammoth mansion eight miles outside of Manhattan with a ballroom, his and her libraries (that's a thing?), martini parlor, two art galleries, 65-foot saltwater pool, tennis court and indoor basketball court.
New Mexico
Price: $13.65 million
Location: Santa Fe
Size: 13,779 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: 6 beds, 5 baths
Acres: 16.61
Special features: Mediterranean-style stone house with old-world charms that has Sangre de Cristos views, awesome library, antique Jerusalem stonework, 13 fireplaces.
New York
Price: $145 million
Location: Southampton
Size: 20,000 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: 12 beds, 12 baths
Acres: 42
Special features: Hamptons compound with a quarter mile of ocean frontage built by Henry Ford II. Includes Italian marble fireplaces, French parquet floors, antique European hardware, koi pond, tennis court, pond for kayaking and enormous pool with its own privacy wall.
North Carolina
Price: $10.75 million
Location: Asheville
Size: 16,221 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: 5 beds, 8 baths
Acres: 2
Special features: Towering castle with three-inch thick limestone walls, a decadent Roman spa, wine room, oak bar, four garages and theater.
North Dakota
Price: $4 million
Location: Fort Ransom
Size: 3,100 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: 5 beds, 4 baths
Acres: 510
Special features: A cabin-style retreat where hunting is the main draw. Includes a fishing pond and over 500 acres of of land dotted with blinds, tree stands and deer stands. Plus there are plots of alfalfa, beans and corn.
Ohio
Price: $12.875 million
Location: Aurora
Size: 16,734 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: 7 beds, 15 baths
Acres: 2.1
Special features: Sprawling mansion located in the Barrington Estates, adjacent to a Jack Nicklaus golf course. It has a three-story master suite with two master bathrooms and three walk-in closets.
Oklahoma
Price: $7.9 million
Location: Inola
Size: 29,000 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: 8 beds, 11 baths
Acres: 27
Special features: 1989-built manse with marble-tiled, two-story foyer, catwalk art gallery, fully mirrored bathroom (yikes), awesome indoor pool, huge bar area and lots of archways.
Oregon
Price: $15 million
Location: West Linn
Size: 16,359 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: 14 beds, 9 baths
Acres: 34.5
Special features: Giant mansion with a pool, salon, bar, huge dining room, theater, three-range kitchen, gym and its very own vineyard.
Pennsylvania
Price: $15 million
Location: Foxburg
Size: 10,000 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: Five beds, five baths
Acres: 1,200 acres
Special features: Historic 1828-built property known as the Riverstone Estate with over a dozen structures, including a sugar house, green house, aviary, alpaca barn and an equestrian complex.
Rhode Island
Price: $39 million
Location: Newport
Size: 7,200 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: 7 beds, 6 baths
Acres: 45.75
Special features: Sprawling oceanfront estate with a 7,000-square-foot main house with 49 windows and a 3,000-square-foot guest house. Includes a pavilion specially designed for parties that can accommodate 1,000-2,000 people. Also includes 24-foot ceilings and a two-story fireplace.
South Carolina
Price: $20 million
Location: Kiawah island
Size: 10,500 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: 9 beds, 9 baths
Acres: 2
Special features: Southern living in a beachy, modern house with 200 feet of ocean frontage, huge windows, spectacular indoor balcony and an east wing entirely devoted to the master suite.
South Dakota
Price: $2.1 million
Location: Sioux Falls
Size: 8,164 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: 5 beds, 5 baths
Acres: 1.16
Special features: A huge ranch home with towering windows and a sleek, modern interior design.
Tennessee
Price: $17.9 million
Location: Franklin
Size: 22,743 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: 6 beds, 8 baths
Acres: 4
Special features: Overly opulent estate with three full kitchens, three bars, ballroom with a stage, nine fireplaces, wine cellar, steam room, exercise room, elevator and royal theater.
Texas
Price: $30 million
Location: Houston
Size: 26,401 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: 8 beds, 8 baths
Acres: 2.33
Special features: Absurdly large chateau with old world Italian inspirations, including a rotunda, reception hall, hair salon, sun room, music room, theater and tons of Roman columns and statues.
Utah
Price: $25 million
Location: Springville
Size: 49,568 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: 6 beds, 5 baths
Acres: 165
Special features: Bizarrely large estate that has an indoor swimming pool with dressing rooms, slides, waterfall features and huge plants for a jungle-like feel. Massive foyer with butterfly staircase, trophy room, indoor shooting range, indoor basketball court and elevator.
Vermont
Price: $10.95 million
Location: Stowe
Size: 17,218 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: 11 beds, 16 baths
Acres: 68.5
Special features: Artist's paradise with a tower suite with lounge and exercise room. Footbridge leads through hemlock forest to artist's studio with a stream/waterfall combo located below.
Virginia
Price: $62.95 million
Location: McLean
Size: 48,900 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: 9 beds, 13 baths
Acres: 3.2
Special features: Located on the Potomac river with a 3-D media room, wine cellar, mahogany library with wet bar, 30-car underground parking garage, at least two kitchens. Another house on the property was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Owned by AOL co-founder James Kimsey. May or may not include storage facility full of America Online CDs.
Washington
Price: $28.5 million
Location: Medina
Size: 10,755 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: 4 beds, 6 baths
Acres: 2.18
Special features: Classic New England-style home with an indoor lap pool and 170 feet of waterfrontage with Seattle skyline views.
Washington, D.C.
Price: $18.75 million
Location: Georgetown
Size: 11,000 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: 7 beds, 7 baths
Acres: 0.61
Special features: Historic 1911 Georgian estate with a 45-foot living room, many-windowed chef's kitchen, catering kitchen, two laundry rooms, billiards room and an original elevator.
West Virginia
Price: $13 million
Location: Charleston
Size: 19,000 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: 8 beds, 9 baths
Acres: 24.7
Special features: Castle-like mountaintop estate with elegant two-story study, gym, game room, sauna, wine room, tennis court, six chimneys and huge pool.
Wisconsin
Price: $13.9 million
Location: Lake Geneva
Size: 13,000 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: 10 beds, 13 baths
Acres: 3.46 acres
Special features: Lakeside manse with two huge kitchens, exercise room, game room, bar, outdoor dining area with fireplace and a pier with two boat lifts.
Wyoming
Price: $39.9 million
Location: Wilson
Size: 16,000 square feet
Beds and full bathrooms: 7 beds, 7 baths
Acres: 72
Special features: Riverside ranch with soaring 30-foot ceilings, massive bar, giant two-island kitchen, walnut flooring, custom iron work, floor-to-ceiling fireplaces, two-story library and a master suite with an octagon-shaped office.
How Much Home Can You Afford?
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Your credit score and history are the first things all lenders will look at to decide whether or not to consider offering you a mortgage (especially a pricey one), so you need to check your credit to make sure you’re in good standing with all your debts. Numerous sites offer free credit reports and free estimated credit scores.
When you pull your report, first check out your score, which will be a three-digit number that generally ranges from 300 to 850. Most lenders look for a score of at least 600 to 640 to offer you financing, but some will make exceptions for buyers in the high 500s. This estimated score will give you a good idea of where you stand, but keep in mind that lenders have their own scoring models, so your official score will vary.
After checking your score, you’ll want to dig deep into your credit report to find any old unpaid debts that could affect you. Forgot to pay that old electric bill six years ago? That's probably on your report as an old collections account and will impact lenders’ willingness to approve you.
Companies like Credit Sesame exist to help you analyze your score and find ways to boost your standings. With a little effort (and time), you should be able to improve your chances. Who knows, maybe someday you'll be sitting pretty inside one of these luxury homes!
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