Remember the Vulgarati? Back in the middle of the 2010s, former Alphaville head honcho Paul Murphy did a series of posts on his increasingly frequent run-ins with the wheeled trinkets of the tasteless.
There was the gold Bentley parked outside former FT HQ on Southwark Bridge, the Rolls-Royce of James Stunt and the gold Ferrari of kick-boxing champion Riyadh Al-Azzaw. Later, Bryce Elder extended the theme to the worlds most expensive council estate: One Hyde Park.
Of course, the Vulgarati aren’t just limited to the rarefied air of Mayfair, Knightsbridge and London Bridge. No, they like to travel in limited circles to limited locations where everyone else is as comfortable with being filthy rich as they are. Think Mykonos, Capri, or Mar-a-Lago.
Which brings us neatly to a listing that popped up on Sotheby’s International Realty — the high-end real estate site and part-time wealth tax advert — last month.
Just get a load of this:
© Sotheby’s International Realty
Yours for just $250m and change. That’s around $3,600 per square foot by our reckoning.
The house in Caesarea, Israel at one point belonged to Russian oligarch Valery Kogan, judging by a report from 2015. We’re not sure sure if it still does. What we are sure about, however, is that it’s even eye-sore from space:
© Google Maps
Any takers? It would be a perfect venue for 2021’s Vaudeville if a reader was to purchase and then offer to host for a nominal fee. Just saying.
