If the €11.95 million shack in the post immediately below does not quite measure up to your haute style, taste and sense of self we depart the Trois Vallées for Vail, Colorado, USA.
From Mansion Global:
The 15,000-square-foot house is the largest and priciest residence in the tony ski town, with 11 bedrooms, 22 baths, four kitchens, and 12 washers and dryers
Location: Vail, Colorado
Price: $78 million
This colossal Vail, Colorado, compound, designed to accommodate a multigenerational family, carries the highest listing price in the ski town’s history.
It has had only three owners, and the last time it was on the market, in 2020, it sold for more than $57 million, a record price.
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“It offers an elevated experience,” said Tye Stockton of Compass Vail, who listed it in February. “It’s the closest single-family house to the core village, and you can’t build houses of this size and caliber any more in Vail.”
He noted that the house was built by the dictionary-publishing Merriam-Webster family, expanded by the second owner, and refined by the third and current seller....
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Apparently printing dictionaries used to be quite remunerative.
Though Vail is somewhat down-market from Aspen, this building has nice verticality, something that adds to the curb appeal of your palace or castle. An excellent example of this is the German castle, Burg Eltz:
Unfortunately the property is off the market, having been in the Eltz fam. for thirty-four generations.
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