Yahoo Lifestyle The Holme in London, Once the World’s Most Expensive Home, Just Sold for $172 Million
The world’s most expensive home is no longer for sale.
A London mansion known as The Holme—aka the “White House of Regent’s Park”—has been sold for £139 million (or about $172 million), making it one of the priciest deals to go down in the U.K. Despite the hefty sum, the trophy estate was snapped up at a whopping 44 percent discount on the $314 million asking price.
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According to Bloomberg, the baronial spread had been repossessed due to an expired loan by the creditors to Prince Khaled bin Sultan al-Saud and members of the Saudi royal family who owned the spread since the 1990s. The identity of the buyer has yet to be uncovered; however, it was reported that the digs were acquired through an entity known as Zedra Trust Company Limited last month.
The Holme, built by English architect James Burton and designed by his son Decimus Burton in 1818, measures nearly 30,000 square feet and sits right next to the park’s boating lake, not to far from Winfield House, the official residence of the U.S. ambassador. Altogether, the stately 19th-century spread features 40 bedrooms, eight garages, a tennis court, a library, and a sauna.
“It’s very special, because you’ve got the ornamental lake, sweeping lawns and this magnificent rear façade which looks like the rear façade of the White House. It’s the most incredible property,” a source told The Evening Standard in March 2023.
The sale of The Holme stacks up against the reported sale of Aberconway House in Mayfair, which was purchased in 2023 for £138 million by billionaire Adar Poonawalla. At the time, it set a record as the second most expensive home ever sold in the city after 2-8 Rutland Gate was scooped up in 2020 for a bank account draining $232 million; the Knightsbridge property has since been hoisted back onto the market.
Now, a coastal compound in the U.S. known as Gordon Pointe has usurped The Holme as the world’s priciest home for sale after it listed at $295 million in February of last year. The property in Naples, Florida, was assembled by late financier John Donahue and his wife, Rhodora, and is now being offered by the couple’s children. Across its 60 acres, the grounds comprise three different residences, a yacht basin, a private boat dock for up to six vessels, and 1,700 feet of water frontage in the gated Port Royal community.
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