World’s First $A1 Billion Home Nearly Complete
ANTILLA, the $1 billion family home of wealthy Indian businessman Mukesh Ambani, is due for completion this month.
The home, which Forbes ranks as the world’s first billion dollar home, is spread over 27 levels and includes a health club, gym, dance studio, a ballroom, guest rooms, lounge rooms, a 50 seat cinema and at least one pool.
The home also includes three helicopter pads, a four level hanging garden and a basement car park with 160 bays.
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POP Princess Kylie Minogue is reportedly inspecting apartments in midtown Manhattan.
A Chicago home next door to US President Barack Obama’s home (pictured) has come onto the market with a price tag of $US1.85 million ($A2.2 million).
SPORTSMAN Glenn McGrath can expect $6 million from the sale of his waterfront estate in Sydney’s Cronulla.
THE luxurious new Gold Coast mansion of former IT entrepreneur Daniel Tzvetkoff has come on the market.
ST KILDA West’s prominent “Pamela Anderson House” (pictured, right) has been relisted for private sale at $1.62 million after failing to sell after an Expression of Interest campaign that closed in mid-November.
FORMER AFL footballer Wayne Carey has listed for sale a newly built Broadbeach Waters mansion he was to have occupied with his ex-girlfriend.
A PENTHOUSE within Harry Seidler’s Sydney CBD apartment tower, The Cove, has hit the market with price expectations of about $15 million.
LIBERAL Party powerbroker Michael Kroger (pictured, right) has finally sold the last piece of the South Yarra estate that was for years the marital home he shared with Ann Peacock.
THE agency selling the Toorak mansion expected to smash Victoria’s residential price record is still confident of a sale despite the bleak global economic backdrop.
DOCKLANDS newest street – overlooking the water – and developed only with multimillion dollar townhouses – was launched earlier this month.
EXHIBITIONIST sunbakers and adventurist gays visiting Mount Eliza’s Sunnyside beaches might have to contend with the sight and sound of construction workers for a few years longer.
RADIO personality Jo Stanley (pictured, right) has sold the Elwood home she outgrew for $1.26 million.
BAYSIDE City council can expect to reap more than $400,000 from selling leasing rights to two new bathing boxes it has constructed at Brighton’s Dendy Beach.
A TOWNHOUSE created by Peter Maddison – architect and host of Lifestyle Channel’s Grand Designs Australia – has hit the market in South Yarra.
MUSICAL director, pianist, composer – and inadvertent television personality – John Foreman is selling a waterfront St Kilda West penthouse.
A MEMBER of the Kirby family, which owns media giant Village Roadshow, is selling a penthouse apartment in South Yarra’s Darling Street.
RECENTLY retired Collingwood footballer Brodie Holland, and his wife, model, Sarita Stella-Holland, are set to outgrow their Moonee Ponds terrace.
REMEMBER when a walk around Balwyn North used to be an enchanting experience? When classic 50s, 60s and 70s family homes sat back on established manicured gardens, which at times meshed into the leafy streets? 
A prominent Brighton home once owned by Olympian turned Gold Coast Mayor, Ron Clarke has hit the market and may set a new price record for the ritzy bayside suburb.
AFL footballer Chris Tarrant may be returning to Victoria to see out the rest of his career wearing a black-and-white Guernsey for Collingwood.
ONE of the few remaining historic mansions in Melbourne’s grand St Kilda Road is being offered for sale – but its fate – as a luxury home, or as an equally lavish office – is now in the hands of whoever waves the biggest cheque.
PLANS for a new $12 million clubhouse and hotel resort at the prestigious Portsea Golf Club have teed off, officially, after the Club successfully sold enough of its land to fund the new development.
THE family home of late broadcaster and reporter Michael Schildberger has been listed for sale.
FASHIONISTA Alannah Hill has stitched up $1.68 million from the sale of a three-level St Kilda apartment she bought in 2004 as an impulse buy.
HAWTHORN East’s former Preshil School site has re-opened as a small, new housing estate.
IT was described as the “best bargain development site” to sell during the economic downturn, and now builder EG Funds Management is ready to cash in.
ANOTHER historic home in Melbourne’s ritzy east is set to be replaced with apartments.
AFL legend David Parkin, and his brother Des, a medical researcher, are selling the Hawthorn home that his belonged to the Parkin family for five generations.
ANOTHER sportsman is turning his hand to a property development, this time in Brighton.
A LANDMARK property on the suburb border of Newport and Williamstown is expected to smash the record price paid for a home in Melbourne’s western suburbs.
FORMER Richmond Football club president Clinton Casey can expect to make about $16 million from the sale of his Avon Court mansion, in Melbourne’s ritzy eastern suburb of Hawthorn – setting a new price record for the suburb.
AN 8,000 square metre slice of Elsternwick’s historic Rippon Lea estate, compulsorily acquired by the State Government in the 1950s for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation – is likely to be sold to residential developers, if the ABC vacates the property in 2012.