What do you think is the most expensive real estate in the world is? Whatever you imagine, per square foot, you won’t be able to beat $54K a sq ft. Oh, and the maintenance costs will probably run you around $300K per year as well.
But it’s okay, turns out you can get a volume discount.
The next closest piece of real estate runs a mere $4,413/sq ft in Monaco1*.
So what will run you $54,349/sq ft? The Boeing 747-8.
The price of a 747-8 tops out around $308 M2. When you get the plane, the usable area is a mere 5667 sq ft3. Seems like a good sized home? You’ll have to keep in mind the $308 M price tag.
This results with the $54,349/sq ft.
Not to mention this only gets you a bare plane. Whatever color you want and anything you want to stick inside is purely optional.
The pictures in this article are of a design concept by Boeing for the 2010 747-8 VIP airplanes. 22 are already on order and some are privately owned.
Vaulted ceilings, spiral staircase and wall mounted LCD TVs are just some of the luxuries these VIP planes can provide. In certain configurations, the main, double decker area (the ‘hump’ near the front of the plane) can be designed to incorporate skylights. Slight inconvenience of this configuration drops the square footage down to roughly 4,000 sq ft and raises the price to $77,000/sq ft.
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This is kind of cheating, I know. It’s an airplane and not a home. But hey, who else can have a home at 35,000 ft?
* That article is in per sq m. A square meter is 10.78 times larger than a square foot.
** Pictures courtesy of the seattlepi.com
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