The Hottest Luxury Homes On The Web: Zillow

The downturn may have left millions out of work and struggling to get by, but there are still plenty of very rich people willing to spend incredible sums of money on luxury real estate. And, there are clearly plenty of us who are more than willing to gawk at their huge homes online.

That, at least, is the takeaway from the latest listings provided by the folks at the real estate website Zillow. Among the most-searched-for homes on Zillow, many of them are celebrity-owned, all are opulent and expansive, often on bodies of water and in gated communities, and notable for their extravagant details. By "extravagant details," we mean things like the fruit orchards on Mel Gibson's estate and Britney Spears's seven bathrooms.

Check out the hottest homes listed on Zillow's website below:

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[Levonsky]

12:26 PM on 04/06/2010

If you don't get what you want, you will suffer,
If you get what you want, when you have to part with it, you will also suffer.
Either way.

[raven119]

11:23 AM on 04/06/2010

With a monthly mortgage payment of less than 18 grand per month, Andy Roddick's place is a steal! I'll take two, please.

[themodernleader]

08:57 AM on 04/06/2010

In the early '60s I toured the mansions of the Robber Barons of the late 19th Century. That tour brought home to me the misuse of resources and unfairness of concentrated wealth and power.
The mansions and other exhibits of ostentation of this generation of oligarchs puts to shame the ostentation of the Carnegies and Rockefellers. This group has no sense of proportion or even a smudgen of dignity.

[tucsoncindy]

08:39 AM on 04/06/2010

Mel's house on the beach was beautiful..looking at the monthly payments on
these homes with the check your credit score gave me a laugh..I'm grateful I
have the money to pay my rent on my humble abode.

[VegasBabe]

07:17 AM on 04/06/2010

No, I don't think these rich folks go blind, but if they didn't have taste to start with, well.....they are at the mercy of some architect/interior designer who sees dollar signs first. Shame, that. I didn't see one property that tickeled my fancy even if I did have the loot. Give me a quaint cape cod any day.

[GravitonX]

06:03 AM on 04/06/2010

Yep, if I had $10 million, I'd live in a lunchbox.

Seriously, people live in as large a house as they can afford and sometimes can't afford. But, some people also think that having a 2-bedroom apartment is living large.

[Timothy Knight]

05:52 AM on 04/06/2010

I agree with prior post, I like the Texas home. To bad its in Texas. You could give me ten of them, and I would not live in that horrible State again.

[Bettysdad]

04:11 AM on 04/06/2010

These homes are uniformly ugly and ostentatious

When you get really rich do you go blind?

[Knothare1230]

05:16 AM on 04/06/2010

For a moment i thought it was just me. With exception to Britney's but she still would have to slash the price if it was me. For the record I live in apartment-lol--so I am hating or dissing I am just saying for 4 million I would simply build a great solid home maybe something more tailored after a large brick great lake home and keeping the change -I would even entertain the notion of purchasing Riddicks home 4MIL??-just don't see the $$ in it and that "castle" looks like a museum theme park my family use to go to when I was little- literally i am trying to remember the name & Google it to see if there are any connections or pics to post
But i am not the one with the money-so i guess more power to them.

[OldHick]

03:00 AM on 04/06/2010

Just imagine what a good player must live in!

[nashnash]

10:10 PM on 04/05/2010

Big, luxurious estates look good in pictures...but in reality, how do you manage (and fill in) such a huge house? What are you going to do with 10 bedrooms and 12 bathrooms and 2 living rooms and 2 kitchens and play room and studio, etc? Gotta be a little scary when you're all by yourself in such a huge place.

[opprobrious]

01:45 AM on 04/06/2010

Frisbie Golf.

[JScott]

02:01 AM on 04/06/2010

Yup you need a staff to maintain it, but I guess at that price level you can afford that too.

[Suntio]

08:55 PM on 04/05/2010

I love Mel Gibson's humble abode.

[Jordan Smith]

08:43 PM on 04/05/2010

http://www.11casuarinaconcourse.org/

[AngusC]

08:18 PM on 04/05/2010

The Texas home is gorgeous, except it is in Texas....

Britney's home is a pretty good price for the area.
I am surprised it has not sold yet.

[WIpatriot]

09:45 PM on 04/05/2010

Somebody must have swapped a picture of Wayne Manor for the one in Texas...LOL.

[JScott]

02:02 AM on 04/06/2010

Doesn't even have a garage only a carport, how cheap can ya get.

[Sandmanj]

07:03 AM on 04/06/2010

"I am surprised it has not sold yet."

Not many buyers want Britney's cooties.

[anticapitalist1983]

07:39 PM on 04/05/2010

these disgusting momuments to GREED should all be OCCUPIED by force by the poor and homeless. only a heartless disgusting creep would buy a place this huge just for himself and his family!!!!!!!

[Janine547]

07:57 PM on 04/05/2010

Since when has it become a crime as to what type or size home one lives in. As long as you're paying for it, it shouldn't matter.

[anticapitalist1983]

08:12 PM on 04/05/2010

it is a crime against humanity.

say that to the face of a homeless family and see if you can be so blase about other people's suffering!!!!!

[rantnraven]

11:47 PM on 04/05/2010

Thanks, Dr. Buzzkill. How do you know some of these people do not donate and create. I hope your high horse gives crotchsplinters.

[anticapitalist1983]

01:52 AM on 04/06/2010

oh god, the existence of poor people is SUCH a buzzkill. all i wanted to do was forget about all the people who work all their lives and have little or nothing to show for it!

you sound like paris hilton. go be among the poor like jesus did for a little while, and then see if you feel the same way.

[Janine547]

07:26 PM on 04/05/2010

I'd love to have a few of the listings on these homes. Great commission !

[Annabelle741]

01:19 PM on 04/06/2010

You can't believe any values on Zillow. I know of 8 essentially identical homes—size, style, floorplans, amenities, etc.—with a spread of $20–30K valuation and one smaller, but similar home valued higher than any of those. Two years ago, the spread of the same homes was even greater. Where do they get their figures? Do they just make them up? I'll never believe anything on Zillow!