The Most Expensive Homes in Texas
It is fun in any market area to take look at the most expensive homes. For those who are moving to Texas for the first time, you may be shocked at the range of lavish estates that are available. The Texas Monthly magazine gave a list in early 2016 of the most expensive homes in Texas. Some of them are mind blowing.
Here are the top ten listed in reverse order with first place shown last (so keeping reading, it gets better!):
10. For luxury bargain hunters the lowest priced home on this list is a mere $17,500,000. This 23,000 square foot San Antonio home with 12 bedrooms that is big enough for your own private baseball team. The amenities include an eight-car garage, an underground cellar for wine, a peaceful meditation and yoga room, a 600-gallon fish aquarium, a 20-foot high rock climbing wall, a private lake, a stunning waterfall and a barbershop.
9. For those will a little more pocket cash, this 21,500 square foot Houston home is $17,900,000. Everywhere in this home is beautiful marble. The indoor swimming pool is 12,000 square feet and also lined with marble. You will feel like a Roman emperor in this home.
8. For $18,000,000 you can live in the heart of Houston’s museum district on a beautiful 12,000 square foot estate with eight bedrooms that is surrounded by two acres of exotic gardens.
7. Just 40 miles outside of Houston is a home paradise in Magnolia on 185 acres with a private 25-acre lake stocked with bass. There are two gardens, a nine-acre Japanese garden and another seven-acre garden with thousand of azaleas. When you need to go to Houston just hop in your helicopter waiting for you on your private helipad.
6. How about an exquisite 9,350 square foot penthouse condominium in Dallas for $24,000,000 on the 42nd floor. The views from this condo are amazing.
5. If you have $25,000,000 you can live on an estate outside of Austin that is 128 acres. This estate has a tennis court, bike trails, horse trails, and lakes for fishing, kayaking, and swimming.
4. This is the kind of home that the characters from the “Dallas” television show would want. It is $27,500,000 and has 11,387 square feet. It has columns out front that make it look like a Texan version of the White House.
3. Want to be neighbors with President George Bush? This three-story 15,254 square foot Dallas home on nine acres is only $33,500,000. It also has a separate two-story guest house. It has a private lake for fishing, a tennis court, a billiard room, and both indoor and outdoor swimming pools.
2. In Houston there is very contemporary home with 14,868 square feet for $35,000,000. This modern style home has its own movie theater and a giant statue of the Buddha.
1. The winner of the most expensive Texas home reported by the Texas Monthly magazine is gong set you back $50,000,000. It is in Southlake and has the design of a luxurious wooden cabin with two massive trees out front that flank the entryway. It is 9,000 square feet and makes more use of open space with only 3 rooms reserved for bedrooms. This is a really wild looking place, like some castle hidden in the forest of a fairy tale.
For qualified buyers that have an interest in any of these homes or others like them and to schedule a viewing please contact us right away! We will fly like Superman over to see you.