--- title: The U.S.'s Most Expensive House Hits the Market for $159 Million description: Le Palais Royal is based on France's Palace of Versailles, and covers 60,500 square feet. It has 6 waterfalls, a $2 million marble staircase, and more. authors: - name: Alicia Adamczyk url: https://money.com/author/alicia-adamczyk/ at_money_since: 2015 articles: 201 covers: - Housing - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Personal Finance - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology social: - https://x.com/aliciaadamczyk former_staff: true published: '2015-11-12T19:22:23.000Z' modified: '2024-04-16T07:31:42.000Z' section: Housing tags: - buying a home word_count: 271 canonical: https://money.com/le-palais-royal-most-expensive-house-america/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![Le Palais Royal](https://img.money.com/2015/11/151112_rea_palaisroyal.jpg?crop=0px%2C0px%2C1500px%2C844px&quality=85) *Le Palais Royal* \[videoid=4577967316001\] It's not exactly shocking that home prices [keep soaring](http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2015/11/daily-chart-0). What's a little more surprising is that a house that didn't sell for $139 million last year is back on the market for an additional $20 million this fall. Should it sell for its new $159 million listing price, it would be the most expensive sale in the U.S. ever. Modeled after the Palace of Versailles, the 65,000-sq.-ft. Le Palais Royal is located on 4.5 acres in Hillsboro Beach, Fla., and comes with six waterfalls (one of which is 25 feet tall), a $2 million marble staircase, a heated plunge pool, a 30-car subterranean garage, a 3,000-bottle capacity wine cellar, and a 1,300-gallon built-in aquarium, [according to the Wall Street Journal](http://www.wsj.com/articles/floridas-le-palais-royal-boosts-its-price-tag-to-159-million-1447255330). There are also two 3,000-sq. ft. guest houses, which share a pool and are still under construction. The current owner is Robert Pereira, the founder of a construction company. If you're considering the property but need just a *little bit more* to justify the $20 million increase, take note: "the property includes 465 feet of beach on the Atlantic Ocean, with a 492-foot private dock that can accommodate a 185-foot yacht," [according to Forbes](http://www.forbes.com/sites/erincarlyle/2014/09/04/le-palais-royal-mansion-hits-the-market-for-139-million-in-florida/). Would you really trust your superyacht to a lesser dock? The current recordholder for the most expensive U.S. home is the [$147 million East Hamptons estate](http://www.forbes.com/sites/erincarlyle/2014/05/05/most-expensive-home-sale-ever-east-hampton-estate-sells-for-147-million/) that hedge fund manager Barry Rosenstein bought last year. But that's nothing compared to the $455 million asking price of [Pierre Cardin's iconic Bubble Palace](http://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/pierre-cardin-to-sell-bubble-palace-french-riviera) in the south of France or the projected [$500 million mega-mansion](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11634411/Record-500-million-mega-mansion-being-built-in-Los-Angeles.html) currently under construction in Los Angeles. **Read Next: [The World's 10 Most Expensive Homes](https://money.com/worlds-most-expensive-houses/)** ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/le-palais-royal-most-expensive-house-america/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Housing", "item": "https://money.com/housing/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Home Prices", "item": "https://money.com/home-prices/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "The U.S.'s Most Expensive House Hits the Market for $159 Million" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/le-palais-royal-most-expensive-house-america/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/le-palais-royal-most-expensive-house-america/", "name": "The U.S.'s Most Expensive House Hits the Market for $159 Million", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2015-11-12T19:22:23.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/le-palais-royal-most-expensive-house-america/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/le-palais-royal-most-expensive-house-america/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2024-04-16T07:31:42.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "The U.S.'s Most Expensive House Hits the Market for $159 Million", "articleSection": "Housing", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2015/11/151112_rea_palaisroyal.jpg?crop=0px%2C0px%2C1500px%2C844px&quality=85", "width": 1012, "height": 569, "caption": "151112_REA_PalaisRoyal" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Alicia Adamczyk", "url": "https://money.com/author/alicia-adamczyk/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/alicia-adamczyk/#author", "image": "https://img.money.com/2016/01/alicia-headshot-2.jpg?quality=85&w=640&h=640&crop=1", "email": "alicia.adamczyk@moneymail.com", "sameAs": [ "https://x.com/aliciaadamczyk" ] } ], "publisher": "https://money.com/#organization", "datePublished": "2015-11-12T19:22:23.000Z", "description": "Le Palais Royal is based on France's Palace of Versailles, and covers 60,500 square feet. 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