Inside The Most Expensive Home In Ocean City, Maryland

It has a pool modeled after a five-star resort and you can fish from almost any room.

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I recently visited the most expensive home on the market in Ocean City, Maryland. The cost to build it was almost 20 times more than the price of the median home in the area, but nothing about this place is average.

The home is a head-turning piece of modern architecture that rises three stories above the sea grass.

As I pull into the driveway, two things catch my eye. The first is a glass sky bridge connecting two separate buildings.

The second is a giant glass garage door. Displayed inside is a shiny black 458 Ferrari Spider.

The owner of the home is Roy Schwalbach, CEO of successful production facility called Jack Studios in New York City.

On weekends he commutes from Manhattan to Ocean City in a Range Rover (or by plane from Teterboro, New Jersey, which takes under 30 minutes), but the Spider is for fun.

Schwalbach — who normally wears Brunello Cucinelli suits and sports a Rolex Platinum President worth over $50,000 — greets me in white denim and bare feet.

Guys like Schwalbach build homes in the Hamptons, not Ocean City. But, he tells me, "this is no ordinary beach house. It's a cross between a Manhattan loft and an ultra-modern beach compound."

Schwalbach's description is spot-on: When I walk inside the poured concrete floors and sleek grey columns make me feel like I'm in a penthouse in Soho. But the water views look nothing like the Big Apple.

In the kitchen, I gently pull on a utensil drawer and it floats open. Before Schwalbach says a word, I can tell he spent a fortune here.

Schwalbach says the total tab for the designer Italian kitchen by Boffi was $250,000. And he says he had to wait a year for it to arrive from Italy via a ship.

We head upstairs.

Gesturing toward the balcony he adds, "As a matter of fact, you could fish from every room in this house. I love fishing, that's what brought me here." Ocean City hosts some of the biggest fishing tournaments in the world.

(The CEO even sports a giant blue marlin tattoo on his left forearm.)

The compound was created from what was originally two homes; Schwalbach built a sky bridge to connect them. We walk across its mosaic-tiled floor and enter the second half of the 6,050-square-foot home.

This is where his duplex master suite begins. The first thing I see is a sparsely decorated room that is actually Schwalbach's walk-in-closet.

Steps away from the bed is the master bath. An 18-foot-long, double-sink vanity runs the length of one wall. The floor is covered in giant terrazzo tiles that, like the kitchen, were custom made in Italy.

The master bath has a hand-carved Boffi tub, which weighs 800 pounds. "We had to haul it up in a freakin' crane to get it up in here before the walls were put up," he tells me.

How much did the Italian tub set him back? "That cost $45,000 and it's worth every cent."

Each of the home's five bathrooms is decorated in colorful mosaics made in Italy.

"Look at that view!" says Schwalbach as he steps onto the deck.

There are three levels of decks so most rooms open onto a terrace.

Steps away from the house is a pool he dreamed up after vacationing at a five-star resort.

"I was in Turks and Caicos at the Amanyara and I was so inspired by the swimming pool that when I came home, I designed it and had it built right here," he tells me. He says recreating that swimming area here cost over $300,000.

"This is a custom made golf green that I built myself with some of the trickiest holes," Schwalbach says.

Thanks to a 194-foot deck, the home's backyard extends over the tide-filled sea grass to the waterway where Schwalbach boats, kayaks, and crabs with his son.

He says he fought the state in court for the right to build the dock. It took four appeals over just as many years, he says, and he estimates it cost him about $200,000 in legal fees, plus another $100,000 in construction costs. But he says it's all worth it when he paddles his boat down to the beach, where he often sees wild horses.

All-in, Schwalbach says the compound cost him $5.2 million.

Schwalbach built this extravagant home as a place for him and his son to enjoy on weekends. He recently listed it with Coldwell Banker for $3,599,000.

CNBC's Ray Parisi is the senior executive producer of special projects.

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