Real Estate
UK’s Most Expensive Home Bought for £140 Million
Billionaires are constantly on the lookout for haute properties, better still if they come with a tag of ‘most expensive’. A 54-year-old Russian steel tycoon, Vladimir Lisin, with a net worth of an astounding £15 billion, bought the 300-year-old Park Place mansion for £140 million. Bought by developer Michael Spink in 2007, for about £40 million, the house is set in 300 acres of land in Oxfordshire, with 200 acres of parkland.
Sheikh of Qatar Looking to Buy the Greek Island Skorpios
Financially troubled Greece has put a ton of state assets up for sale, including some of its famous islands. One interested buyer is Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the ruling Emir of Qatar, who wants to acquire two islands in the Ionian Sea, including Skorpios Island. The private island formerly belonged to famed Greek shipping billionaire Aristotle Onassis and was the site of his wedding to Jackie Kennedy in
