Holy Cow!!! I’m in shock. This has OFFICIALLY made my day! It was reported a year ago that timeshare mogul David Siegel (owner of Westgate Resorts) had put the construction of his super mansion, dubbed Versailles, on hold because of the poor economy. Well, it seems like David had other plans as well. The home, located at 6121 Kirkstone Lane in Windermere, FL, just hit the market for a mind numbing $100,000,000, which makes it the most expensive home on the market in Florida. For $100 million, the home will be finished to buyers specifications. It is also listed for $75 million if it were to be purchased in its current state without being finished. The home is now part of the elite $100+ million real estate club that boasts the $150 million “Manor”, the $125 million Fleur de Lys estate, and the $100 million Tranquility estate. David’s super mansion boasts an incredible 66,800 square feet of living space (90,000 under roof), which makes it the largest single family residence in the United States. It is located on a 10+ acre lot overlooking Lake Butler. The home is an incredible 200ft x 200ft and is 67 feet tall. It boasts a large boathouse, formal gardens, 13 bedrooms, 23 bathrooms, 3 swimming pools (one indoor), a 20-car garage, 1-story gatehouse with apartment, baseball field, 2 tennis courts, a 7,200 square foot grand hall with 30ft. stained glass dome, 2 grand staircases, 30-seat formal dining room, 1,110 square foot main kitchen, 10 satellite kitchens, his-and-her offices with 12ft. aquarium, 2-story wine cellar, rock grotto with 3 spas and 80ft waterfall, fitness center, a 2-lane bowling alley, an indoor roller rink, video arcade, children’s wing with home theater and multiple living areas, an adult home theater with balcony, and a 1/2 acre main pool deck.
First of all, can you say excessive?! Ugh, I am out of breath. I never seen a home with that many features/amenities before. Who the hell needs 10 kitchens?! By the way, the Brazilian mahogany french doors cost $4 million alone! To be honest, I really don’t think this home has a chance of selling. The other $100+ million homes are all completely finished and located in much better areas. Do you know how long it would take to complete a mansion of this caliber?! What do you think? I would LOVE to hear your thoughts.
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Wow, that’s all i can say. And i thought Deion Sanders mansion had amenities, an ice skating rink ?? (come on) If you notice the other homes that are selling for over $100 million their located in big cities, this mansion is located in a golf area ?? (i think) whoever buys this palace is purchasing it for a status symbol
compared to the other mansions selling for over $100 million, this one is by far the nicest and has the most features
Cute price. $75 or $100 million. How the hell can you justify that? This is CENTRAL Florida! You are at least 45 mins from any beach. Lake Butcrack? No thanks…
A home of this size is out of place in this part of Florida. I know there are big houses in the area (Shaq’s being one of them), but the price tag will never be warranted. I can see it selling for $35 million FINISHED tops.
In my opinion, the home itself is ugly. For $75-$100 million, I’ll stick to places that actually command that price tag, say Palm Beach, Beverly Hills, Aspen or The Hamptons. Not Windermere. Too many Cadilliac’s losing control and hitting trees with “sex-addicted” drivers…
lol. i can buy ten of those.
Hmm, I would have to gather all my friends & family & ALL their money just to buy it!! Not to mention they WOULD ALL have to live there as well, cuz good greif, can you IMAGINE THE COST IN UPKEEP of a place like this!! You need a WHOLE Village living w/you too afford this and ya know they do say it takes a whole village to raise a child so, why not?!? HA-HA!
I think you’d be pretty foolish to select anything other than the $75 mill option with the seller’s preferences. I happen to be attracted to the Louis XIV – Napoleonic period, but even I would want to trade in an indoor ice skating rink for something else. The trouble is, what else? I happen to like big digital organs with like 70 – 100 speakers. Unless you wanted it out of site, it would be pretty easy to do this with minimum obstruction in the ballroom area. Unlike most homes, it wouldn’t take away room for furniture! That’s another reason to save $25 million – for furniture, taxes, insurance & utility bills!
You have to admit from a Realtor’s standpoint (I used to be one) that anytime a property has a $100 million price tag, you get a lot more publicity. Publicity is free vs. advertising that costs $$$.
Organbrett, and all other Homes of the Rich addicts……..Former, high-end realtor here too, in what’s called Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan…..maybe you’ve heard of it? Storied, very wealthy, historic district, among five other Grosse Pointes. ANYway……….
I’ve been in a LOT of truly historic, beautiful, huge homes that have valuable, real lineage to Detroits founding and auto industry families, so I’m admittedly skewed towards REAL mansions, not “gargantuan-airports-attempting-to-disguise-themselves-as-homes”. So, with that in mind…….while this building (it will NEVER be a true “home” or even a “house”, it is indescribably TOO HUGE to ever qualify as either one of those words) might be built & designed with lots of beautiful & very expensive methods, theories, & materials, the reason it will never sell for anything even close to 100 mil is because it is most literally, psychotically, and incalculably TOO BIG, PERIOD. I’m 48, and I’ve honestly prided myself all my life on having one HELLUVA’ imagination when it comes to outta-control fantasies of being beyond FILTHY rich, but I will NEVER be able to comprehend the EGO & GREED of both Siegel and his wife. While their money is theirs to do with whatever they want, that fact will still never detract from the permanent & breathtaking absurdity of this monstrosity. At the risk of sounding like a know-it-all, homes that are REALISTICALLY & CORRECTLY proportioned for (mostly) EVERYDAY, REAL LIFE (a statistic that waaaay too many filthy rich people obviously hate with a passion & ignore regularly) is JUST as important to the overall beauty of the house, as is ANYthing related to design, materials, color, art, paint, blah blah blah. PHEWWWW….know what I mean? I could NEVER even begin to take this SHOPPING MALL seriously, as ANY kind of “single family HOME”…….hahahahahahaha!!!! Can I get an AMEN?!
AMEN AMEN AMEN!!!! You sure hit it on the mark there. I actually drove by this home when our realtor took as around to look at lake front lots. It’s not even done yet and I can tell it will be the most gaudy & excessive “Home” I have ever seen. Yuck!! The neighbors must be pissed. This is just like London’s updown court listed at $14o million. I think it’s been on the market for over 5 years now. The designs I’ve seen of it are just ugly & does not have anything homey about it. I guess billionaires like the feeling of living in vast buildings as opposed to homes. I just don’t get this property.
DAMN WOW IT’S JST TO BIG.Even if i wish i would live in a big house one day.This 1 it’s BIG VERY BIG,RICH PEOPLE DON’T KNOW with their,jst buy a lot of cars
Fkn awesome…. dude, keep it up KENNY!!!
thanks Torin!!
Barney: AMEN!!
Barney -
You hit the nail on the head! Fleur de Lys has 35,046 sq. ft., which is mind numbing by itself. Then you think, the Siegels planned 66,800 which is almost twice as big!!! 15 baths at the Sapperstein place & here we have 23! – (Poor Svetlana speaking in tongues!) I might have more fun in the swimming pool grotto, but beyond that it is just too $$$$$ much!
Too small for me, I really prefer houses with 6 digits worth of square footage. Only 2 lanes in the bowling alley? Only 20 cars in the garage? Where do I play golf when it rains, it’s really important to me that I have an indoor 18 hole golf course.
You laugh now, just watch, one of these days someone is going to build an indoor golf course. lol
It is bound to happen.
What do you mean someday, go to realtor.com, search in Flowermound Tx. There is a house listed at $6,500,000. that has an indoor driving range on the first floor and a putting green on the second. Remember in Texas basements are more rare than liberals.
Golf course, not range, golf course. lol
The cost would be astronomical, but I am hoping some enterprising billionaire like Roman Abramovich will undertake this feat.
As far as I know, no one on the planet has an indoor golf course, and in the egocentric world of the billionaire, I think this is the next logical step.
I would love a home like this, but at a smaller size, say maybe 35,000 square-feet? BTW an ice-skating rink is nothing big, some hedge-fund managers have those in Greenwich, Connecticut in their own homes as well.
And if 35,000 turns out to still be too big for me, I’d shrink the size moreso, to 20,000, or whatnot. I’d want a massive library like that one previous home and a nice-size gym and home theater, maybe at most two kitchens though.
I like large homes, but it’s like trucks and SUVs, people like big trucks and SUVs, but there is a point when you get to too big. I doubt most people would want a Cadillac Escalade as long as a bus, for example! Same with homes, I love them large, but not too large!
Much like our local Champ D’Or, it is too much home in the wrong place. Egos running out of control, building structures that are like the cars on “Pimp my Ride”–interesting to look at, but worthless for their intended use.
This partly finished monstosity might sell for 20 million some day, although I doubt it. Likely will be bulldozed. Hell, it dwarfs all the homes around it by 5 or 6 times or more. Rule #1 of building a home: NEVER build the biggest home on your street. This house should be on 500 acres somewhere, not in a subdivision fronting a lake affectionally known as Lake Buttcrack. God the upkeep for this place boggles the mind. And David Siegel is like, what 75 years old? Seriously? Good luck with all of that.
By the way, Kenny–good catch on this listing.
Did you know that Le Belvedere, or whatever that Beverly Hills 48,000 SF house the Hamid dude built is supposedly under contract for somewhere in the 60 million range? Quite a bit below the original asking price, but still….
thanks! yeah, I heard about it through the Real Estalker. I know, I would have thought that Mohamed would have not budged with his asking price. Hopefully this will bring Candy Spelling down to reality. Her house is close to $90 million more and is only 8,500 square feet larger.
Wouldn’t it have been cheaper to buy the real Versailles???
This house is just way too much, way too over the top.
The only place something like this would sort of work in in Beverly Hills, Bel Air or the Hamptons, definitely not in Florida and that part of Florida to boot.
Venom, and everyone else…….I honestly don’t think that this airport-disguised-as-mansion would EVER sell, ANY where, ANY time. Like I ranted & raved about above, this gargantuan monstrosity in worship of Ego, Greed and Excess is simply & completely PSYCHOTICALLY TOO BIG. I’m certain that Siegel’s gonna’ lose at least 3/4 of what he spent to build it to the point it is now, ’cause the only way I can imagine that he’ll sell is if a developer offers him 1/4 of what he’s asking. Then, they’ll most likely tear the house down, and redevelop the property for (somewhat) realistically sized homes, for wealthy people who haven’t gone berserk due to uncontrolled greed and think they’re the King of the Saudi Royal Family.
And, CONGRATS Kenny on your big lift from Perez…(even though I personally can’t stand him). I’m glad ya’ got such a huge surge in viewership…..I’ll be in there continually
thanks =)
wowowwowoow im impressed
10 years ago i would have thought this house was amazing, however in the last ten years i have matured quite a bit and realized bigger is not always better. I live in a 14,000 sqft home that i built last year with my wife and 5 kids, and i feel like i am in a warehouse, our home is way too big for us, and we are currently building our REAL dream home, a more reasonable 7,500 sqft. I cant imagine why anyone would want, much less NEED a home 66,800 square feet!!!! i think its ridiculous, ugly, and will sit on the market for years until some egotistical billionaire comes along and buys it just so he can say he owns it…
does anyone know what the building costs were?
my problem with this mansion is NOT the size….there are huuuge mansions above 40 000 or 50 000 sqft. and they look amazing. it depends on what you make with the sqft. you must try to fill such size with life and put away the emptyness…than in could be a jewel!
but siegel`s mansion is only huge und ugly, it looks like a 6-story block. in this mansion i could never feel that i am at home…but there are mega-mansions where i could…
Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, originally built by Marjorie Merriweather Post and is something like 50,000 square-feet I think, it is beautiful inside, but so huge, Donald Trump decided to make it into a country club.
Maybe someone could complete this home and turn it into a country club?
You guys say this but if you went to Europe, you’d understand that this home is nothing compared to the palaces and castles of old. The only difference is that homes now are being built during a time of free upward and downard mobility…no peasant class. Therefore, they can be judged for their indulgences more freely…Biltmore being a good example of the last castle size place to be built before our American society truly changed to its modern state. Do you honestly believe that Bill Gates doesn’t have a desire to build a house this big or larger. If you think $100 million house is too much what about a $1.2 Billion dollar yacht that Russian billionaire added to his naval fleet a few months ago…this will not sell, not because it is ugly..it is not…not because it’s too big…it is not…and not because someone doesn’t want to buy…trust me multiple people do who can afford the full price…the reason it will not sale is that at that level of wealth…things are investments…plain and simple and with the looming option are bubble burst that is coming at the end of this year beginning of the next…this investment will be rapidly declining in value…
I suspect the following to happen…
Champ D’or will sell for $17 million along with their son’s property and their replacement property across the street from it as a package deal.
Le Reve will go to auction as a foreclosure property.
This home will go into limbo…no buyer for 3-4 years while the owners strip it further of its finished elements to help cover carrying costs and pay taxes and refinanced mortgage payments where it will most likely sell for $13-$16 million…and the new owner will finish it…only to sell it finished within 24 months.
Evander’s house will be listed pretty soon as his ability to carry the property (i.e. not able to pay the electric bill)…will eventually become very evident.
what dou you think is the monthly electric bill for mega-mansions above 40 000 sqft? and the estimated building costs of this mansion?
I would guess the electicity bill for this house, assuming that the summers are quite hot in that area, would be somewhere in the $10,000 to $12,000 range a month. Keep in mind that this house also has an ice rink, which would require a huge cooling system to freeze the water and keep it frozen. That cooling system running on and off throughout the day would require even more power, so the bill might be even more. I don’t know what the mechanical aspects of this home are as far as cooling zones, etc…but I really don’t see the house ever being cooled anyway, I just don’t think anyone will take on the responsibility of finishing it, maintaining it and paying taxes on it. Keep in mind that the pics are all computer generated except the top corner photo and the bottom corner photo. NONE of the interior is completed to the level of those shots–many of those features wouldn’t be going in until the house was almost finished, which this house is not, at least on the interior. Also, unless they get 5,000 workers in the place, the finish-out would probably take another 2 years or more. The part about finishing the house to the buyer’s specs is interesting…so if I want to buy the house and pave all the floors in 24k gold with platinum accents and have chandeliers made of diamonds instead of crystal, that can be done for the $100M?
Yeah Kenny I posted it up on l4p knowing it would draw even more attention to your site!
thanks so much =)
The builder atleast has an excuse for building this home in the first place….he has 13 kids!
I enjoy looking at mega mansions but this one will not sell at that price. It’s not worth $100 million. It’s not attractive either.
I say this with all due respect to many… But one thing I really dislike is when some ppl nitpick/bash other ppl’s (properties) when they have very little to show for themselves.
I think we’ve all established here that this is a website featuring nothing but “Mansions”…. But to make certain comments like: “only huge und ugly, it looks like a 6-story block” or ““gargantuan-airports-attempting-to-disguise-themselves-as-homes” or “his house should be on 500 acres somewhere, not in a subdivision fronting a lake affectionally known as Lake Buttcrack’….
Well, To those of you who made comments like those: WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SHOW FOR YOURSELVES?? What kind of property and what size property do YOU have??
I happen to be a local resident.. and there are handful of HOMES that exceeds 20,000sf. and a few others that are greater than 30,000sf. And yes, Even one not so far away that’s approx. 50,000sf. all on LAKES which gives a picturesque view of fireworks from nearby Disney world.
So, I guess what I’m trying to say here is: Whats the point of BASHING OTHERS whose made ‘the american dream’ become their ULTIMATE SUCCESS…
A wiseman once said: Small minds talk about each other… While GREAT minds talk about GREAT ideas.
Have a good day,
Mrcool7723
P.S. — I applaud you on your GREAT IDEA for creating this website. Keep up the good work pal.
can’t agree more! Well said!!
On the electricity bill, a home this large would likely have its own little powerplant.
It would make a decent retirement home and or spa, its located in the right state.
The home is said to have costed the builder $150 million to build.
Hey Kenny, speaking of insane houses, do you have any new info on Mukesh Ambani’s $2 billion “house” in Mumbai? Haven’t heard anything on it in over a year.
yeah I have some info, but nothing new. I’ll try to find out more about.
In their defence they do have like 8+ kidz under 10 lol, but… this house has all the calling cards of ”look-at-me-im-rich” archetectuire (woopz i cant spell it lol), i dont think their is any problem having a house the size of that if itz done right and this isnt the ”french-neoclassical” design is stupid for centril florida and it’s completly over done and just looks tacky.
Why would the home be more exspensive for buyers specifications???
because the owner, Daivd Siegel, already has a lot of the stuff needed to finish the home in the style that he envisioned. If the new buyer wanted a totally different style, then he would have to pay more for the home and finish it himself.
“take this SHOPPING MALL seriously” hilarious
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To put this all in perspective just compare this home and the asking price with a small condo just recently purchased by an elderly friend of mine. She is 80 and wanted to downsize so she bought a 1019 sq ft. condo. It cost her $1,150,000. Now look at this 90,000 sq ft house going for $100,000,000. Do you see what I’m getting at?
Ugly house, no matter the cost. It would give me nightmares of Mary Antoinette in the guillotine.
Criticize the house if U want, but the personal attacks are wrong & extremely shallow. None of ur business what a man wants to do with his money, surely ur words of criticism shall come back to u. I love the place and want to buy it & am working on it right now. It will be a masterpiece for my wife,me and my 20 children & nannies. I dreamed of this place and to see them wanting to sell it, I believe they started building it for me & didnt even know it.
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The drawings of the mansion look more Italian than French. Don’t know if the actual mansion would turn out to be as classical as the picture renderings.
Anyone interested in a $100million dollar mansion time-share??
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So if this sells does that mean employees will finally get a pay raise after many years without one?