Forbes lists top pricest homes in the world
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For a mere $138 million, you can own a cozy 103-room English country home, with a panic room, marble driveways and helipads -- a property that tops the 2007 Forbes annual list of the world's priciest homes for sale.
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Homes in these 20 spots are the country's most and least expensive to lease.
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(InfoWorld) - Technology executives dominated the top 10 of Forbes magazine's list of 400 richest Americans this year with Microsoft Co-Founder and Chairman Bill Gates retaining his place at the top of the annual list for the 14th time. According to Forbes, Gates is worth $59 billion. In all, five of the top 10 are technology executives. Larry Ellison from Oracle and Michael Dell from Dell were No. 4 and No. 8, respectively. Oracle's chairman is worth $26 billion, according to Forbes, while Dell's net worth is $17.2 billion. Breaking the top 10 for the first time were Google wunderkinds Sergey Brin and Larry Page, who also were among the youngest of the top 400 richest Americans. Both Google co-founders and co-presidents are 34 and shared the No. 5 spot with a net worth of $18.5 million; only the 317th richest American John Arnold, a hedge-fund billionaire in Houston, is younger than Brin and Page. Google's Page also caught up to Brin's bank account in 2007. Last year, Brin held the No. 12 spot at $14.1 billion in net worth, while Page was a hair behind at No. 13 with $14 billion. Number two on the list was Gates's friend Warren Buffett of Omaha, Nebraska-based holding company Berkshire Hathaway, who has pledged a significant amount of his wealth to The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Forbes said that Buffet is worth $52 billion. While Sheldon Adelson, with a net worth of $28 billion, no doubt owes his number-three spot to his Las Vegas casino and hotel holdings, he's a familiar name to tech veterans as the impresario once behind the now-defunct Comdex mega-tradeshow. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen slipped from his position at No. 5 last year to No. 11 this year, just missing the top 10. Allen is worth $16.8 million, according to Forbes. Current Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, worth $15.2 billion, also fell from 15th last year to 16th this year. Other high-tech executives who made a strong showing on the list in 2007 are eBay's founder and Chairman Pierre Omidyar, who came in 32nd with a net worth of $8.9 billion; Amazon.com founder, Chairman, CEO and President Jeff Bezos, who is worth $8.7 billion and tied with another high-tech billionaire, SAS Institute's James Goodnight, for 35th; and Google's CEO Eric Schmidt, who came in 48th and is worth $6.5 billion.
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Variable pricing, in which a house might be put on the market for $510,000 to $565,000, has gained popularity over the last decade.
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When it comes to the most luxurious properties around the globe, the price tags are as unique as the pads.
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Oprah Winfrey is the world's most powerful celebrity according to business magazine Forbes.
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The number of homes sold in England, Wales and Northern Ireland hits its highest level since the 1980s boom.
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A spokesman from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said here Friday that multi-fators have pushed up the housing price. Statistics show that the prices of housing and
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Delray Beach's premier luxury condominium residence with preconstruction prices starting in the $360's, Worthing Place, will showcase at Ohio's Live South(R).
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Fancy getting away from it all? One of Australia's most luxurious island homes is on the market and compared to prices for similar houses in Sydney, it's a relative bargain at around A$7 million (2.8 million pounds).
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It has been a busy year for Forbes' team of fortune hunters.
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Business & money: Â· Homes for poorest will cost 10 times their incomeÂ· Imbalance of supply and demand will be long-term
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This year, those with tens of millions to spend found some pricey properties from Santa Barbara to South Beach.
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For the owners of mega-mansions, the purchase price is just where the spending begins.
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Rupert Murdoch, the billionaire CEO of News Corp. (NWS)(NWSA), has reportedly offered to buy a three-story penthouse for $44 million, which would be the highest price ever paid for a Manhattan apartment if the deal goes through.
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg is apparently even richer than anyone realized. Forbes magazine's annual list of richest Americans is estimating his wealth at twice the number it gave last year, vaulting him to the rank of 25 with a fortune estimated at $11.5 billion.
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NEW YORK Ruport Murdoch could make New York history if his reported bid to buy a three-story Manhattan penthouse goes through. The New York Times says the (b) billionaire CEO of News Corporation is offering 44 (m) million dollars for the Fifth Avenue pad.