Photos: America’s Most Expensive Homes

The prices of the Most Expensive houses in the U.S. have gone down due to the economic recession. If a house is priced over $100 million, will you still buy it?

Forbes released the 2009 America’s Most Expensive Homes. The list includes mansions, urban townhouses, monumental ski lodges and country estates.

Here they are, the Top 10, in photos.

1. $125 million — Fleur de Lys (Beverly Hills, California) — Suzanne Saperstein’s gem is aptly called the Fleur de Lys. Modeled after Louis XIV’s palace at Versailles, the 45,000-square-foot home took five years to build following Saperstein’s accumulation of five acres in Holmby Hills during the 1990s. Should strolling the grounds bore you, there is a 50-seat screening room and a library filled with first-edition books. Auto collectors will salivate over the nine-car garage.
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