Step inside the most expensive home in America

FEATURES include a 3,000-bottle wine cellar, a 30-car garage, six waterfalls, a nightclub, an infinity pool with a water slide, a putting green and a custom aquarium wall with a built-in 3D TV.

LE PALAIS Royal, a 5574-square-metre Florida mega mansion has just hit the market with an eye-popping $223 million price tag — making it the most expensive home in the USA.

One of the many waterfalls.

The Hillsboro Beach, Florida estate, which is modelled after Versailles, contains a laundry list of opulent amenities that would make any billionaire blush. (And for that price, it should!)

Features include (but are not limited to): a 3,000-bottle wine cellar, a 30-car garage, 17 bathrooms, 11 bedrooms, a 4-metre gold-leaf fence, six waterfalls, two jacuzzis, two docks (which can accommodate massive yachts, of course), a 418-square-metre infinity pool with a double-loop water slide, a swim-up bar with an ocean view, an outdoor pizza oven in a summer kitchen, a putting green, a 4,921-litre custom aquarium wall with a built-in 3D television, a gym, and a spa-massage room.

The entrance foyer.

What would be called a master bedroom in any other home is here dubbed the Royal Suite. The Wall Street Journalfirst reported the listing. One more claim to fame? The first private IMAX home theatre in the world, which seats 18 in red plush seats.

The private IMAX cinema.

Records have revealed that the palatial pad, located between the Atlantic Ocean and the Intracoastal Waterway (with private access to both), is owned by Robert Pereira, who helms a Massachusetts-based construction company. Design on the main house began in 2008, construction in 2010.

A kitchen in Le Palais Royal.

In September of 2014, Le Palais Royal hit the market for a jaw-dropping $195 million; it left the market a year later. The main home is now 95 per cent complete, so Pereira decided to try, try again to lure a buyer.

An artist’s impression of the underground nightclub.

Now it’s officially back on the market, at a more expensive price to boot. The price rise is reportedly because Pereira added a second lot to the already large assemblage, believing (obviously!) “the estate needed more land and entertaining space.” Now it totals 1.8 hectares.

Putting green with a view.

One of the many jacuzzis.

Just have a gander at what’s to come: two guest homes of 278-square-metres each; a pool in between them; and an underground entertainment space that will include an ice-skating rink, a go-kart track, a bowling alley and a nightclub.

A 4,921-litre custom aquarium wall with a built-in 3D television. What every home needs.

Originally published as Step inside the most expensive home in America