The Most outrageously expensive home purchases of 2013

This year kicked off with the news of a record-breaker home sale price: $117.5 million for a nine-acre Woodside, Calif., estate purchased by billionaire and Softbank chief Masayoshi Son, Japan’s 2nd-richest man. It remains the highest price paid for a home in the U.S., ever.

Although the news hit this year, the transaction was technically a 2012 sale. The property traded hands quietly in November, flying under the radar until reports in January.

But 2013 has its own outrageously expensive home purchase prices–albeit not quite as hefty as last year’s outsize transactions. Money manager Howard Marks, founder of Oaktree Capital Management, tops the list with of 2013′s highest sale prices at $75 million, the sale price for his Malibu estate. The property, situated along the scenic Pacific Coast Highway, sold in January to an anonymous Russian buyer, marking a record-high price for Malibu.

This year is almost over, but there’s still time to topple 2013′s high purchase price of $75 million. In fact, sources are telling me that one trophy property may close very soon that could break this year’s record. Let’s see what the next weeks bring. | Erin Carlyle

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