The $10 Million House Town

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The $10 Million House Town

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The median home price in America is $400,000. In the most expensive metropolitan area in the United States, San Jose, the number rises to $1.1 million. In one town in California, the price jumps to $10 million.
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According to The Wall Street Journal, the median home listing price in Newport Coast is $10,645 million, up 21.66% from a year earlier. The town has a population of about 7,500 people. Its ZIP code is 92657. Based on home prices, this makes it the most expensive ZIP code in America. (This is the city with the poorest middle class in each state.)
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The Wall Street Journal reports that if $10 million is not enough, one home in Newport Coast is priced at $69.8 million. It has seven bedrooms and 13 bathrooms, covers 15,500 square feet, and is on a modest 0.61 acre of land. That matches the price of New York City’s most expensive apartments, which sit 70 floors or more above Central Park. Several townhouses also have similar prices. Recently, a townhouse in the Plaza Hotel was priced at $50 million.

If data on New York’s most expensive apartments is accurate, the people who buy them have hundreds of millions of dollars or more in net worth.
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A handful of cities have costly neighborhoods based on home prices. Several are outside the United States, including Hong Kong, Singapore and Vancouver. These are occupied by the richest people in the world as well.
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According to Henley & Partners, 9,700 people in the United States have over $100 million or higher net worth. That means a handful of Americans could buy homes in Newport Coast and that demand there is unlikely to slacken.

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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