Vail Has Most Expensive U.S. Home for Sale. Here’s the Price Tag.

Are you a prospective homebuyer with a budget higher than the gross domestic product of a small country? The Colorado mountains have the house for you!

A $78 million mega-mansion in Vail hit the market on January 10, becoming the most expensive home currently for sale in the United States, according to Realtor.com. The property at 100 Vail Road, built in 2014, was last sold in 2020 for $57.25 million.

If the home sells for near its asking price, it will be the priciest residential sale in Vail's history — breaking the mega-mansion's own record set in 2020, the Wall Street Journal reports.

The six-story, 15,086-square-foot mansion is the largest core residence in Vail, according to the listing. It has eleven bedrooms, 22 bathrooms, three pools, three spas, a hidden in-floor wine cellar, a screening room, five kitchens, two elevators, twelve washer/dryers and a four-car garage, but sits on just 0.54 acres of land.

Located in Vail Village, the estate offers ski access to Vail Mountain, as well as 21 custom heated ski lockers. It also has views of Gore Range, visible from the indoor-outdoor living areas found on all six levels of the mansion. And if the chilly mountain air is too much, fear not: There are fireplaces in "nearly every room" of the home, the listing says.

"Exuding audacious luxury, 100 Vail Road is undeniably one of the top ski resort homes in the world and a crown jewel of Vail," the listing declares.
The mega-mansion is owned by Boulder biotech entrepreneur Kevin Ness and his wife, Stephanie. Ness told the Wall Street Journal he wanted his four young children to each have their own floor of the mansion for their future families. But less than five years after they bought the property, Ness says, they "don't use it as much as they'd hoped."

The Vail estate is the most expensive home listing in the nation by nearly $20 million. Here's how the rest of the top ten stack up, according to Realtor.com:

• 46 Deep Sea, Newport Coast, California — $60 million
• 56 Bal Bay Drive, Bal Harbour, Florida — $45 million
• 1120 Wallace Ridge, Beverly Hills, California — $42.5 million
• 40 32nd Avenue South, Naples, Florida — $39 million
• 623 Halsey Neck Lane, Southampton, New York — $34 million
• 1084 Golf Road, Montecito, California — $33.5 million
  
• 207 West Coconut Palm Road, Boca Raton, Florida — $29.75 million
• 460 Gonowabie Road, Crystal Bay, Nevada — $29.5 million
• 10944 East Whistling Wind Way, Scottsdale, Arizona — $29.5 million