LONDON, APRIL 11, 2004

NRI steel wizard Lakshmi Mittal, the richest Asian in the UK has purchased a `Guinness Book Records-breaking’ central London house for a record price of 70 million pounds. The previous record was 62.7 million pounds for a 1997 sale in Hong Kong

 

 

This house is 12-bedroom house in the prestigious Kensington Palace Gardensr and it has garage space for 20 cars. This manson was sold by former Labour donor, Bernie Ecclestone, the Formula One racing boss, who bought it for his wife three years ago.

 

The Kensington Palace gardens houses are dubbed "billionaires" row. Nearby are Kensington Palace and the London home of the Sultan of Brunei. According to the Sunday Times Rich List 2004, his worthis an estimated 3.5 billion pounds