INTERNATIONAL: Bizarre legacy of mountain for sale at $1.4 billion

PHOTO: The Mountain Beverly Hills is for sale at US$1 billion. Source:Supplied

It’s attracted the interest of Tom Cruise, James Packer and even Steven Spielberg but an unusual block of land with a twisted history has turned into one of the most head scratching real estate sales of all time.

Got a spare billion dollars? It seems no one else does either.

A mountain landholding in Beverly Hills is proving one of the world’s hardest real estate sales, with the owners choosing to list the home in July for an unthinkable US$1 billion (A$1.4 billion).

It’s still up for sale with no signs of being snapped up.

The 157 acre (63ha) property overlooks the homes of Hollywood heavyweights Sylvester Stallone and Seth MacFarlane and was once envisioned as a mansion for the sister of the Shah of Iran.