Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Price: $13,000,000
Square Feet: 44,340

This stately mansion in Greater Vancouver, is the largest residential listing in Canada ever. This home was built for grand scale entertaining and has 50+ expansive rooms including 10 bedrooms and 13 bathrooms and is set on over 20 acres. The mansion has a 200 foot tunnel leading to an olympic sized pool and spa, 12 seat home theater, wine cellar with tasting room, photo working shop, computer lab, and a piano lounge.

Here’s the listing: Greater Vancouver Mega-Mansion

Location: 118 S 20th Avenue, Longport, NJ
Price: $20,000,000

This is New Jersey’s premier oceanfront estate. It features 8 bedrooms, 10 bathrooms, media/family room, great room, elevator, home theater, and a first floor master bedroom suit with a private office. With an available property frontage of 236′, this makes this home the largest contiguous ocean front property available at the New Jersey shore.

Here’s the listing: dupont registry

Location: 77 Beverly Park, Beverly Hills, CA
Price: $50,000,000
Square Feet: 30,000

This mega-mansion was built by developer George Santo Pietro who was once married to Jeopardy letter turner, Vanna White. This home is one of the largest in the gated community of Beverly Park where neighbors include Denzel Washington, Barry Bonds, Chris Tucker, and power rangers creator Haim Saban. This Italian inspired spec house includes 9 bedrooms, 15 bathrooms, a grand screening room, and a wine cellar. Other unique amenities include an herb and spice garden and a sand volleyball court.

Here’s the listing: http://www.christiesgreatestates.com/greatest_estates/view_59461/

Location: Robin Lane, Alpine, NJ
Price: $13,900,000
Square Feet: 15,500

This truly amazing newly constructed home was built on 2 acres. With over 15,000 square feet, this home has it all. With 7 bedrooms and 8 full and 3 half baths, you wont be fighting over who gets the bathroom first. This home also features a 25 foot entry foyer, a modern kitchen with state of the art appliances, a lovely billiards room with cherry floors, and separate living quarters over the four car garage that includes an office. On the 6,500 square lower level, there is a bar, double fireplace, gym, a 12 seat home theater, 2 bedroom suites, and a music room.

Here’s the Listing: Weichert Realtors

Mansions are starting to spring up everywhere you look nowadays. Whether it be a newly built McMansion that is oddly situated between quaint little homes or a gigantic hilltop mansion thats hiding behind a large iron gate. It is all about making a statement and people will go to any lengths and spend obscenely large amounts of money to do so. A house used to be a place just to relax in and be secure and were typically small and cozy. These days, some houses being built look more like buildings. People building these mansions include anything imaginable in the design plans, including home theaters, bowling alleys, and sometimes even indoor swimming pools. Mega-mansions provide every necessity needed and much more. They are a place of entertainment and luxury and most interiors are of museum quality. Mansions are built by people who live on a grand scale and love to entertain. Building or buying a mega-mansion reinstates your ranking in society and gives the people who own them a sense of accomplishment.