Overview

• Italian media report negotiations with an unnamed Arab businessman for roughly €500 million, though no agreement has been finalized.
• Sotheby’s International Realty is marketing the property in collaboration with Knight Castle Real Estate after formally listing the estate.
• The villa, in Porto Rotondo on the Costa Smeralda, is owned by Silvio Berlusconi’s five children following his death in 2023.
• If completed at the reported price, the deal would rank as the most expensive residential sale based on Mansion Global’s records.
• The 68-room estate features a sea-cave with a pool, an artificial volcano, a Roman-style amphitheatre, multiple pools, a heliport and a nuclear-grade bunker, and it has hosted leaders including Tony Blair, George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin.