He spoke to reporters briefly yesterday as he left his gated home on an exclusive estate near Weybridge where he lives with his wife.
And they can rise to as much as 60,000 euros per square meter ($7,899 per square foot) for an exclusive estate.
The market for the custom structures is greatest on the coasts, although exclusive estate sections have recently been set aside for private mausoleums at cemeteries in Atlanta, Cleveland and Minneapolis.
In another case, involving a London team, one young player was moved into an exclusive estate near the club's training ground and his mother was given a job working at the stadium.
Perhaps we will soon see Mr Lerner, left, in the estate agents of Sutton Coldfield, where he could buy a nice house for about £2m in Four Oaks, the exclusive estate which has long been the preferred destination of the city's football folk, including Doug Ellis, the man he is buying Villa off.
He died in 1997, and Cuixmala is now run by his daughter, Alix Marcaccini, as a 32,473-acre biosphere reserve and an exclusive estate-and-breakfast, where guests like Madonna and Mick Jagger rent out the apocalypse-proof Indian-themed palace, La Loma, for $9,000 to $15,000 a night).
Called Ichpa Mayapan ("exclusive estate"), Lapham's 11,000-square-foot glass-and-stucco fantasia features a hand-carved Mayan calendar in its entrance court, a façade richly embellished with stylized Mesoamerican motifs, and a keystone-shaped pool presided over by a colossal Mayan-inspired stone figure.
In a region where exclusive, lakefront estates have long commanded top dollar, two relatively new communities known for alleys and front porches have joined the Orlando area's priciest addresses.
He showed me round his latest development: an exclusive housing estate, built for the super-rich, in rustic greater Moscow.
