Photos: Most expensive properties on the world market

Summer is traditionally selling season, but no one is hoping to sell more than the owners of these ultra-luxurious homes, the most expensive properties on the market in the world.

By Rob Bear | Curbed – Tue, 7 Aug, 2012 6:00 PM EDT

Summer is traditionally selling season, but no one is hoping to sell more than the owners of these ultra-luxurious homes, the most expensive properties on the market in the world. Sure, what with the market downturn of the past few years, none of these are challenging the banking widow Lily Safra's $530M mansion on the French Riviera for highest asking price ever—that's the one that Russian oligarch Mikhail Prokhorov abandoned a $53M deposit on when the market tanked—but all have prices that stretch to nine figures. The most expensive is a shadowy listing, one that pops on and off the market every few years, but is currently being shopped around privately. Once owned by Russian ballet impresario Rudolf Nureyev, the Li Galli islands were briefly listed publicly last year for $268M. The three rocky isles include a villa built in 1924 and the ultimate location along the Amalfi Coast, between the mainland and always-chic Capri.


↑ Number two, worldwide, is also located in a storied summer destination, the Hamptons, but unlike Li Galli—or most other properties on this list—the massive asking price doesn't even include a house! That's right, this 9.4-acre stretch of undeveloped beachfront in Amagansett, N.Y. is listed for a jaw-dropping $200M, but comes completely vacant. Needless to say, they're probably hunting for a foreign buyer, and, even more needless to say, the place has yet to sell.


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