Mr. Morin ended up selecting an 87-square-meter, or 936-square-foot, residence near Deak Square, in the very heart of the city.
Fifteen minutes from Johnson's office, Wright built him a palatial 14,000-square-foot residence that has also charted in the top 10.
In better days, the 30-room, 8,596-square-foot residence was the site of a fund-raiser for President Barack Obama, before he became a United States senator, and for Mr. Blagojevich, before he was impeached.
Constructed over two years and completed in 2007 at a cost of 100 million krona (then about $1.4 million), nearly every corner of the 3,165 square-foot residence pays homage to the motherland.
But Mr. Lagasse, who four years ago paid $11.5 million for the 19-foot-wide, 6,900-square-foot residence at 158 East 61st Street, had to settle for that same sale amount on this go-round.
Mr. Maidman wanted to combine all three into an unusually wide 61-foot residence, but the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission, which had been keeping a close eye on the project for years, put the brakes on part of that plan.
According to Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin), Mr. Obama "has arrogantly exploited the office of President to gain access to a fifty-five-thousand-square-foot residence that could double as a museum".
The house he is building to replace it -- already sold to a neighborhood family that wanted new construction -- is a five-bedroom, 4,700-square-foot residence priced at $1.2 million.
He's asking $50 million for his mansion in Beverly Hills and is quietly allowing real estate agents to show the more than 10,000-square-foot residence to select clients.
Set on roughly an acre in the Trousdale Estates area, where a $36-million 36-million be purchomed as a tear-down, the nearly 23,000-square-foot residence was built by a billionaire for a billionaire.
