Most Expensive Home in Texas

The nation’s largest (and most expensive) ranch property is in Texas. No surprise there. Mesa Vista Ranch is indeed a sprawling property with truly jaw-dropping numbers: 65,000 acres of land in the Eastern Texas Panhandle and a 33,000-square-foot main residence—all 85 miles from the closest town, Amarillo. It’s the pet project of former owner and financier T. Boone Pickens, who spent 50 years transforming the land into the ginormous playground that it is today. Pickens created man-made streams and introduced new conservation practices to bolster the property’s pre-existing wildlife population. Amenities are creatively sprinkled throughout the landscape, including a two-story pub, a freestanding gun room, an 11,000-square-foot dog kennel with 40 pens and a veterinary lab, an airport hangar and even a chapel. Boone Pickens added a lake house to the place as well: an 11,500-square-foot home with pristine water views. And the listing claims that estate is essentially turnkey, as it includes all of the businessman’s pickup trucks, hunting vehicles, farming equipment and furnishings—and even his bird dogs. The cows and the artwork (yes, those were grouped together) can be purchased separately.