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The most expensive home in the United States is now for sale for a whopping $350 million. The Bel-Air estate may be familiar to those who watched âThe Beverly Hillbilliesâ television series, where it was featured.
And the two homes could end up selling for far less, since nine-figure price tags are often used more as marketing tools than as real valuations. The most expensive home sold in the United States is believed to be an East Hampton estate that sold for $147 million in 2014. In California, the biggest sale is believed to be that of a nine-acre estate in Woodside that sold for $117.5 million in 2013.