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Who hasn’t imagined living in a gorgeous penthouse with an unbelievable view and some of the nicest amenities money can buy? Well, here are the best penthouses for your next daydream.
New York City
Perhaps the city most synonymous with penthouse apartments is New York City. As far as real estate goes, it is one of the most sought-after cities in the entire world, so any penthouse apartment that breaks a record for the most expensive sale the city has ever seen becomes big news.
This Central Park Tower pentel’s home really lets you see where all that money is going. This triplex apartment features 23 rooms, seven bedrooms, and nine bathrooms. It’s got its own doorman, a gem, a salon, a private ballroom, and a gorgeous private terrace.
In New York, those 27-foot ceilings might be more impressive than all the other amenities combined. There’s one thing that this home sells that really makes it worth that big chunk of change: the home is up so high that apparently it’s actually quiet in New New York City.
Yes, this home advertises that it’s literally above the noise. At over 1,400 feet, they say you might hear the occasional airplane, but that’s about it. Not only is this the highest penthouse in NYC, but it’s also supposedly the tallest in the entire world.
Not surprising that NYC would pull that. They probably made sure it would be number one when they built it.
So how much is the most expensive penthouse NYC has ever seen? Well, hold on, because it’s a number that might blow you away.
250 million dollars. That’s worth roughly one Hope Diamond. It could be one of the biggest penthouse sales in all of America—if anyone actually goes for it, that is.
Dubai
Dubai is probably the most popular city for this channel, considering how it is a high-powered magnet for the kind of big-time ridiculous luxury spending we love so much.
So here’s the inevitable finest penthouse the city of Dubai has to offer. Surprisingly, it does not hover above the city on propellers. Not yet, anyway.
Instead, the top-floor Valente penthouse has so much style that you’d expect James Bond to walk through the door. This intensely modern home features cool jagged edges from floor to ceiling, including the winding staircase.
This style continues through the four bedrooms and five bathrooms. Then there’s the home theater, the spa, the walk-in closets, and the spacious living areas.
If all that wasn’t enough over-the-top style for you, just look at the outdoor garden area complete with its own pool. At night, this place looks like something out of a fairy tale.
Then there’s the view. Anyone familiar with the city of Dubai, or at the very least Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, knows that the city features the tallest building in the entire world, topping off at over 2,700 feet. This penthouse has one of the finest views of this historic building money could buy.
Not that you really need a penthouse to get a glimpse of the tallest building in the world. I bet if you squint out of your window really, really hard, you could probably see it a little bit.
So how much would this kind of luxury living cost you in one of the most notoriously over-the-top cities on Earth? This one will run you 183 million. So yeah, that’s about what I expected from Dubai.
Monaco
Monaco is a place known for high-profile luxury, fast racing cars, and Iron Man fights—probably not in that order. So the city’s finest penthouse apartment has quite a reputation to live up to.
Boyd, is the Odeon Tower Sky Penthouse live up to it, and then some. If every inch of this place was built with the intent of rubbing it in the faces of all of your friends and enemies, no matter how rich they are, it is as opulent as opulent gets.
With black and white marble running through the place, it’s got four bedrooms and two bathrooms, which isn’t the most impressive, but how could you take too much off a place quite like this?
Brad is the most impressive part of this home is the pool. Just look at this rooftop pool that comes with a wicked water slide. I mean, if you really pick up some speed on this bad boy, you could probably go flying through the city.
If that’s not enough, there’s also an indoor pool that looks like it was built for Tariq Gods. You think that this penthouse wasn’t within walking distance of some of the most pristine beaches the world has ever seen?
So how much is this penthouse fit for the finest race car drivers and Iron Man alike? Oh, it’s not a big deal—just an easy 300 and 87 million dollars.
Yeah, even for how amazing this home is, I don’t think it’s worth 387 mil. That is, unless it actually comes with that suitcase-sized Iron Man suit. Now that I would pay 300 mil for.
Marina Bay
Ever since the release of the movie Crazy Rich Asians, people have been obsessed with the luxury lives of the rich and famous in Singapore.
There’s one penthouse that’s said to be the absolute greatest in the area. What’s even crazier is that the owners want to combine several floors of this place to make the penthouse into a super penthouse.
It’s known as the Marina Bay Penthouse Collection. It features 24 bedrooms and five separate residential areas. The place is an epic combination of classic old-school Singapore style and modern luxury throughout.
One room has chandeliers, one has small intimate gardens, one has white marble dining areas. Then there’s a huge rooftop pool.
If all that wasn’t enough, remember when I said this place wasn’t quite big enough, even seeing how beautiful it is already? Well, evidently they are looking to combine three different penthouse suites together. If that wasn’t enough, they threw in a duplex as well.
All of that together brings this baby up to an unbelievable price of 103 million.
If you didn’t know this already, owning a big space in such a famously cramped area like Singapore is perhaps the biggest flex you can possibly show. So this is definitely the biggest flex of all flexes.
Michelle, you would be proud.
Las Vegas
Las Vegas is the ultimate fantasy party destination. That’s because it has a rep for being the best party city on planet Earth.
Part of that fantasy comes from the idea of packing in your best friends together into a giant pinto suite that’s nicer than any of your houses.
The absolute top of the top in Sin City is the Empathy Suite in the Palms Casino Resort. Everything about this room is wild.
Evidently, the theme for this room was to promote the idea that whoever’s staying there was a shark. If you didn’t get that from the cold, almost ice cube-like design, you’ll see the shark and fish skeletons throughout the place.
Even the bedrooms are cold and stylish, like you’re staying inside the icy soul of a stone-cold high-rolling poker player.
This suite is enormous. While it is mostly used to accommodate a small group of like four or five or so, the 9,000-square-foot room can be used to entertain over 50 people for massive parties.
For those parties, it has a private pool, a fully stocked bar, a pool table, a private art gallery, a butler, and so much more.
Not only is the suite one of the nicest Vegas has to offer, but it features the biggest hotel price tag you’ll find in the entire world.
The hotel was renovated for 690 million dollars in order to charge their high rollers staying there 100,000 a night for this penthouse. That’s with a two-night minimum, too.
What’s crazy is that this is before the gambling even starts.
These rooms are definitely not for the average people on vacation, though. They are for the serious players who are prepared to drop or win millions—something most of us couldn’t even imagine.
I mean, just think about it. You’re going to Vegas already 200 G’s in the hole. I’ll be really lucky at the roulette table to make up for it.
This penthouse has a higher rent than any other place in L.A., but is it worth it? I’m not really sure.
The penthouse is all the style, the view, the space, and the luxury you’d expect from a place like this. The space features 19,000 square feet with six bedrooms and eleven bathrooms.
The place even has its own helicopter pad on top of the roof. Sure, it also has a pool, an outdoor dining area, and a huge kitchen, but it has one amenity I actually don’t think I’ve seen before.
The place has its own private rock climbing wall. As tall as the penthouse is, this rock wall is the closest you could get to actually climbing a real-life mountain.
So just how much does the rent have to be to crack the number one rental price slot in L.A.? Hold on to your hat, because it’s shocking.
At 125,000 a month, that’s 1.5 million a year. That’s a lot for a private climbing wall.
So who wants to send me like 800 million dollars so I can pick up a few of these? No takers?
That’s what I thought.