India's richest person, Mukesh Ambani, built a $1 billion home. It has 27 habitable floors, including six parking floors with a capacity to hold up to 168 cars. 600 staff maintain the home.
A $1 Billion Home With 600 Staff and a 168-Car Garage
When you're worth $90 billion, you don't just buy a mansion—you build a vertical city. Mukesh Ambani, Asia's richest person, constructed Antilia, a 27-story private residence in Mumbai that redefines the concept of luxury living. The price tag? At least $1 billion, though some estimates push it closer to $4 billion.
Here's the thing that makes Antilia truly mind-boggling: those 27 floors aren't normal floors. Each level features extra-high or even triple-height ceilings, meaning the building stands as tall as a typical 60-story office tower. It's 570 feet of pure opulence rising above Mumbai's skyline.
A Garage That Puts Car Dealerships to Shame
The first six floors are dedicated entirely to parking, with space for 168 cars. That's not a typo. While most people stress about finding street parking, the Ambani family has room for more vehicles than a small car rental company. The collection includes everything from Bentleys to a Mercedes Maybach worth over $1 million.
To put this in perspective, if you bought a new car every week, it would take you more than three years to fill the garage.
600 People, One Family
Maintaining a 400,000-square-foot vertical mansion requires serious manpower. Antilia employs 600 full-time staff members to keep everything running smoothly. That's roughly one staff member for every 667 square feet—or put another way, the Ambani family has more employees than many small companies have total workers.
The staff maintains an almost absurd list of amenities: a 50-seat private theater, multiple swimming pools, three helipads, a ballroom, a health center, a spa, a temple, and perhaps most bizarrely, a snow room where the family can experience artificial snow in tropical Mumbai.
Living Above the City
The Ambani family—Mukesh, his wife Nita, and their three children—actually occupies just the top six floors of their 27-story home. The irony isn't lost on anyone: they built a structure taller than most apartment buildings to house five people.
Antilia is designed to survive an 8.0 magnitude earthquake and features hanging gardens on multiple levels. The building's name comes from a mythical Atlantic island, though this very real island of wealth stands firmly planted in one of Mumbai's most exclusive neighborhoods.
The controversy: Some refuse to call Antilia the world's tallest single-family home specifically because it includes space for 600 staff members. But whether you count those floors or not, one thing is certain—this is a home that operates more like a small, highly exclusive city than a residence.
While billions of people worldwide live in homes smaller than Antilia's garage, the building stands as perhaps the most extreme example of wealth inequality made architectural. It's less a house and more a monument to what unlimited resources can create when pointed at residential real estate.