Think the most expensive private home in the world is somewhere in Los Angeles or London? Not even close. And not in New York, Singapore, Dubai, Paris, Hong Kong, Seoul and other super-expensive locations. And not even in Moscow! Okay, I won't bore you further.

The most expensive private house (designed for a single family) is located in Mumbai - the largest city in India by population. Service Nambeo puts Mumbai on 286th place on the cost of living, somewhere between Tashkent and Tehran. And here in this city appeared the most expensive private building in the world (somehow it is impossible to call it a mansion). But let's talk about everything in order.

The house was built for himself and his family by India's richest man, Mukesh Ambani. At the time of writing, the businessman is the 18th richest man in the world with a total fortune of almost $100bn.

This is the same Indian billionaire who organized (and paid for) the sensational ‘wedding of the century’ for his son last year. For those who missed it, guests there included Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Hillary Clinton, Tony Blair, Kim Kardashian and many other rich and powerful. And that's just the private party. The public (50 low-income families were invited to the second event) was entertained by Justin Bieber. The singer's fee totaled $10 million!

Cottage, mansion or even residence are not the right names for this building. Because the most expensive private house in the world is a skyscraper!

According to the project, the building has 27 floors, but since many of them have a ceiling height that would accommodate at least one more full-fledged level, the building could actually be 60-story's high.

The building is 173 meters high and has a total floor area of 37,000 m2. Against the background of a relatively low-rise environment, it is impossible not to notice the luxurious building.

According to the data of Ambani's company, the construction of the house cost a ‘miserable’ 50-70 million dollars. Now the cost of the building (due to the fact that the elite land in Mumbai has risen in price since the construction) may be about $ 2 billion.

The most expensive house has its own name - Antilia, in honor of the mythical island.

The project of the house was ‘assembled’ right in the process of construction. Designers and architects were constantly changing and adding things.

The building resembles a stack of stacked books, but despite its chaotic appearance, it is designed to be very robust. The building can withstand an earthquake up to 8 on the Richter scale.

The whole house is built according to the principle of Vaastu - a kind of feng shui, where the floors are planned so that energy can be evenly distributed throughout the building.

But the real shock awaits those who are lucky enough to visit the inside of the miracle house.

No two floors of the building are the same - they all differ in style, design, decorative elements and even size.

The bottom six floors are car parks. Completely filled with family cars - 168 in total. And, as you can imagine, the cars in the billionaire's collection are not ordinary.

What do you think is on the seventh floor, right above the car parks? Well, of course. his own private car service.

There are nine lifts in the house.

As for materials, everything is predictable - crystal chandeliers, silver railings, handmade carpets, the finest woods, etc. By the way, Ambani claimed to have sourced all the materials exclusively from Indian contractors.

The house has its own park, which is not a figure of speech at all. The gardens occupy four floors, there are real lawns with flowers and a huge open terrace.

The apartments of the family itself (Ambani, his wife, mother and three children live in the house) are on the upper floors ‘in the fresh air, above polluted Mumbai’.

The house also has a spa, a cinema, a huge ballroom, several different swimming pools, a beauty studio, a yoga room, and its own temple.

Of the more unusual, there's a ‘snow room’ where you can cool off anytime. And if you think it's a metaphor, it's not - it really does snow there, and always.

On the roof of the building there are three helipads and its own flight control center!

In order to maintain such a house, 600 people need to be employed on a permanent basis.

The Internet says that despite such a large number of employees, the billionaire's children cleaned their rooms themselves when they came on holiday from the USA (I personally will not confirm this fact).

Some famous people who have visited Ambani's house call it the Taj Mahal of the 21st century, while others compare it to Versailles (not in favour of the latter, by the way).

And not far from this concentration of the world's luxury are the usual poor Indian slums. They are inhabited by families who live in five in one single room, without sewerage, running water or even drinking water. What do you think of this contrast?