Pricey Properties

Most Expensive Home, Most Expensive Beachfront Home, it's all the same.

When you're looking for the biggest and the best, only one thing comes to mind in South Florida, lately, and it's Maison de L'Amitie. Click below to see our cast give it to you live from the Writer's Block!



Also dubbed Trump's Palace by the Sea, this 80,000-plus square foot home in Palm Beach went on the market one year ago and since then, has been added to, renovated again and drooled over by business tycoons and private investors.

Maison has a conservatory, 100-foot pool, Jacuzzi, three 3000-plus square foot guest houses, atrium, nearly 500 feet of oceanfront, and made Forbes'Top Ten of Most Expensive Homes in the World 2007, the second year in a row.

Built in 1990, by health care investor, Abe Gosman, it sits on property purchased for a few mill in 1986.

While Trump still resides in Mar A Lago, he ponders whether he should continue to add or move in.
But that's Palm Beach, my dahlings.

In Miami, condos are the bigger, better, faster. Zilbert put together a list of the 100 Most Expensive Condos in Miami - and these mosters come with amenities to make you rent your home and take a permanent vaca.

For a mere $30 mill you can own a fully-furnished, four-bedroom, four-bathroom, 6000 square foot condo in Setai on South Beach with sweeping views of the Atlantic.

A better deal might be found at the Continuum I and II. This luxury oceanfront condo in Miami Beach offers 7500 square feet, cathedral ceilings, private pool and Jacuzzi, five bedrooms, seven bathrooms, marble floors and maids quarters for a mere $25 million.

I don't want to be a penny pincher, but that's $100 million LESS than Maison, and you still get a semi-private beach.

But you don't need to be a millionaire. NAR released information this week that the median house price in Miami is about $350,000, if you can manage with about 2300 square feet, three bedrooms and two-and-a-half baths.