Just Because, Here Are The Ten Most Expensive Homes For Sale In All Of Texas

AUSTIN, TX — It's often been said that everything is bigger in Texas, and homes are no exception.

Researchers at PropertyShark recently went house hunting, to a fashion, in compiling a list of the 10 most expensive homes currently on the market throughout Texas. But let's cut to the chase: The most expensive home on the market is in Lago Vista on a chunk of real estate six times larger than the entire state of Monaco.

Is that Texas-size big enough for you? Well, it comes with a price tag that also bespeaks its bigness: The property at 21650 FM Road 1431 comes with a price tag of $68,345,900. Lago Vista is located on the north shore of Lake Travis, 20 miles northwest of Austin.

That was not a typo. The home can be yours for $68.3 million.

"If you’ve ever wanted to live like royalty, the most expensive home for sale in Texas right now can make your dreams come true," PropertyShark researchers wrote. "And with neighbors like the Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge and Pace Bend Park peace, quiet and extreme privacy are a given."

Because human neighbors. Who needs them?

The six-bedroom home features an in-ground pool, and a hot tube overlooking much of the 2,282 acres of wooded land abutting the property. That makes this property 4.5 times bigger than all of Monaco. There's miles of water frontage here along some of the deepest portions of Lake Travis. The southeaster portion of the property is adjacent to Rusty Allen Airport.

If that home is a little out of your budget, you might consider the 25-acre Walnut Place dubbed as "the epitome of luxury living." It's got a main house, business guest house and an original family house and apartment.

"The original Crespi Estate was built in 1938 and underwent a comprehensive renovation under architect Peter Marino in the early ‘00s," researchers wrote. "The property now features a smart home system, heated pool, greenhouse, tennis court, rec room, multiple garages, marble floors, outdoor fireplace and pretty much any luxurious amenity you can think of."

The home at 10000 Hollow Way Rd. is listed at $48,900,000

Still too expensive? Perhaps the home at 27 Mott Lane in Houston would be your to your liking. Designed by Stern and Bucek, The House of Ki is "...a jewel of modern architecture with sleek lines of glass, steel, zinc and concrete, designer finishes, a geothermal heating and cooling system and a state of the art Savant Home Automation system," PropertyShark officials said.

The 8.7-acre property also contains more than five acres of reserve. All this for a mere $35 million.

Still too much, you say? But you still want to stay in Houston? La Perse on Harness Creek Lane could be a good alternative. The 7-bedroom, 10-bath mega-mansion located within the guard-gated community of Stablewood in Houston is a 20,157-square-foot Renaissance-style Texas limestone structure boasts a floating grand staircase, two reception salons, a music room, multi-tiered outdoor garden terraces, library, media room, wine cellar, pool and more than a handful of fireplaces.

All that for just $30 million.

Partial to the Big D? There's a home at10210 Strait Lane that you might like. It was built in 1964, and is described as an award-winning Philip Johnson masterpiece. The home underwent a comprehensive, yet sensitive, renovation in 2008. The 5-bedroom, 8-bath mansion shares its 6.45 acres with a modernist cabana, media house, pool and tennis court. And it's quite the bargain at $27,500, wouldn't you say?

If you prefer the music scene, there's a property in the "live music capital of the world" that might be your future home. Known as Barton Canyon Ranch, this west Austin estate at 903 Crystal Mountain Dr. is nestled between the luxury neighborhoods of Barton Creek and Crystal Mountain – just 15 minutes from downtown. The 4-bedroom, 6,588-square-foot home comes with a 128-acre backyard of live water, swimming holes, biking and horse-riding trails, canyons, pastures, wooded hills and abundant wildlife..

It's a paltry $25 million, making it the sixth most expensive home in the entire state. Just look at it under this sentence. It's lovely.

The seventh most expensive home in Texas is located at 5950 Deloache Ave. in Dallas is a relative bargain at $24.5 million. It's considered the premium pied-a-terre of renowned architect Robert A.M. Stern, making us intrigued while diving for our dictionaries. A pied-a-terre is defined as "a small apartment, house, or room kept for occasional use."

A small apartment, you say? Really? F. Scott Fitzgerald was right: The rich are very different from you and me.

What passes off as a modest pied-a-terre (now we can't stop using the term) is a home built by John Sebastian that includes a three-story, four-bedroom main house, a two-story guest house, tennis court, pool, natatorium, spa, library, lakes, garden and terraces spread across nine acres of prime Preston Hollow land.

This modest little pied-a-terre has been recently reduced in price, bringing the asking price to $24,500.

We're getting into bargain basement territory at this point. There next home in Coleyville, Texas, at 1312 John McCain Rd. was built in 1987 in the Georgian High style. It features five bedrooms, a 2,700-square-foot guest house built in 2000, an in-ground pool (with pool house, of course) and barns throughout the sprawling 46-acre grounds. There are nice, Old World details throughout this mansion such as a roof balustrade, shallow gabled windows and two-story pilasters.

Coleyville is an affluent city and suburb of Fort Worth, located some 3 1/2 miles from the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. This beauty has a sticker price of $19,950,000.

The ninth most expensive home in Texas is located in University Park, a wealthy community bordered on the north, east and west by Dallas and on the south by Highland Park. The mansion at 6700 Turtle Creek Blvd. is a gated Tudor Revival situated on 1.7 acres with unobstructed views of Goar Park. The custom interior of this charming mansion encompasses five bedrooms, eight fireplaces, an elevator, media room with bar (but of course), multi-tiered slate patio with water features and a guest wing.

The home has been discounted from $21 million to its current asking price of $18.5 million. What a steal.

It's not exactly slumming, but we've reached the end of the Top 10 list. The least expensive home in this list is in Dallas at 3509 Euclid Ave. It's a Mediterranean retreat located in the heart of Dallas, the work of John Sebastian, Fush Architects and Harold Leidner Land Architects. The 18,000-square-foot mansion includes six bedrooms, eight full baths, a wine grotto with tasting room, elevator and virtual golf room. The property also features a Tuscan pool cabana complete with private baths, top-of-the-line gym and aromatherapy room and a 10-car garage.

Because an 11-car garage would be overly ostentatious. The price of this architectural gem is a mere $18 million.

So there are your choices. From Austin to Houston, majestic mansions to suit every conceivable taste. So pick one, already!

>>> Photos provided by PropertyShark via various real estate agents, including the photo of 21650 FM Road 1431 in Lago Vista, Texas — the most expensive property in Texas.