At $250M, This Bel-Air Spec Home Is the Nation’s Priciest

Published: January 24, 2017 | By: American Luxury Staff

An expansive 38,000 square feet and a $30 million dollar exotic car collection? Lots of art, and lots of candy? Make an offer. The sale of this Bel-Air residence is all-inclusive.

The asking price of $250 million makes it the most expensive house in the country—for the moment, anyway. The bowling alley is four-lane, for at-home bowling competitions. There are two wine cellars, instead of the usual one, for at-home drinking competitions. Alligators volunteered their own hides to line the elevator; who can blame them? They knew a good cause when they saw one.

The home comes complete with a helicopter, for a rapid escape in case of revolution. It comes with a $500K series of framed, moving images of the Seven Dwarfs, each in a different color. It comes with an art collection—130 pieces, various and sundry, included in the package sale. The 40-seat home cinema might come in handy; if you ever need to, you can hit up friends and relatives for $10K tickets.

The home—the vision of Bruce Makowsky, a self-made billionaire who made a part of his fortune selling women’s fashions via televised home shopping before becoming a real estate tycoon—is the product of years of work. Makowsky lives in a 27,000 square foot house in Beverly Park, and built this residence without investors, as a speculation.

If the home sells for anywhere near its asking price, it will become the priciest residential sale in L.A. county history. At least, for a little while.

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