The world’s most expensive house, in dollar-per-square-foot terms, might just be found by a bay in Hong Kong named Repulse. The four-bedroom, four-bath, 4,120-square-foot “beautiful British style townhouse” has been on the market since 2012. It is up for grabs for $87.3 million. That means that the home costs roughly $21,190 a square foot, Time calculates. For reference, the 38,000-square-foot. Bel-Air mansion that Forbes described as “the most expensive home ever listed in America” was put on the market for only $6,560 a square foot. Meanwhile, the world’s most expensive home in absolute terms, which is the $1 billion Antilia in Mumbai, is valued at just $2,500 for each of its 400,000 square feet. So what could possibly make this villa on Repulse Bay so expensive? Time writes that according to the sales pitch, the property has “large windows [that] capture picturesque views of the sea” and an internal staircase. The master room hosts “a nicely fitted out walk-in closet.” There are bedrooms for two domestic helpers. Senior adviser for sales and leasing at Engel & Völkers Hong Kong, Mary Kwan, did tell Time that the chance of a sale going ahead at this price is “very low.”
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