Because of the crisis, prices for luxury properties have fallen all over the world. Among the most affected countries were the United States, which according to Forbes magazine is home to the most expensive homes in the world. Prices for real estate there began to decline in 2008. A year later, elite country mansions offered with a 50% discount. According to The Wall Street Journal, an estate of the late XIX century in Virginia, which in 2006 was put up for auction for $ 24.95 million, in 2009 it was offered for only $ 12.95 million. Recently, the British news portal Property Wire wrote that American celebrities, frightened by a rapid drop in prices, sell their expensive mansions with significant discounts. that the house of actor Nicolas Cage in the closed area of Los Angeles Bel Eyre was seized by the bank for debts and sold for $ 10.5 million, which is two-thirds cheaper than the price for which the actor tried to sell it. Not finding a buyer for a $ 7.5 million mansion in Nashville, a two-time Grammy Award-winning singer, Sheryl Crow, put the house up for auction. But there are rich Americans who are not ready to reduce the price, despite the crisis. The portal Luxist recently published a list of the most expensive homes sold in the US in 2010. Three mansions, which occupy the first places in the rating, the owners are trying to implement for more than one year, but those who want to buy them yet. The most expensive is a three-story mansion in Los Angeles worth 150 million dollars. For the first time it was put up for sale in 2009. The house in the prestigious area of Holmby Hills belongs to the widow of the television producer and director Aaron Spelling. After the erection of this house, Spelling was listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the owner of the largest house in the world (its area is 3,390 square meters). In the mansion there are 123 rooms. The whole wing of Spelling took under his wife's wardrobe. The house also has a real cinema, a beauty salon, a bowling alley, a gym, a wine cellar with a wine tasting room, a library and 3 rooms for gift wrapping. On the site near the house there is an ice rink, tennis court, a museum of dolls, 4 bars, a theater, 12 fountains, a garage for 16 cars, parking for 100 cars for guests and a garden in the style of the XVIII century. According to the real estate consultant in New York, Julia Hopkins, who leads the Property Wire portal, the maintenance of such houses is very expensive, so they are only bought to live in them. The situation with the sale of mansions is complicated by the fact that many rich people prefer to build houses themselves to their liking. Therefore, it is difficult to predict how soon these houses will be sold. Based on the materials of the site
