Recently, LVMH’s Bernard Arnault—the world’s second-richest person—acquired the nearby Hôtel Cap Estel in Èze through his family holding company for approximately €200 million, signalling renewed attention on this discreet stretch of the Riviera coastline.

The late, influential art-world power broker Barbara Gladstone’s Gilded Age waterfront retreat — one of the last intact turn-of-the-century shingle “summer cottages” on Long Island’s North Fork — is for sale for $12 million

Considered one of southern England’s finest private country houses, the Grade II-listed Pythouse sits in South Wiltshire’s Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Lake Como has long ranked among the most prestigious real estate markets in the world, defined by its grand waterfront properties—yet there are few comparable to the scale of this restored 19th century silk mill in Brienno.

Overlooking Mallorca’s Tramuntana mountain range, Finca Sonrisa blends contemporary design with traditional finca style in a project recognized by Architectural Digest and Wallpaper*, now on the market for €8.9 million.

In the hills outside Lucca, one of Tuscany’s grand historic estates has returned to the market with provenance few properties can match, acquired in 1836 by Caroline Bonaparte—Napoleon Bonaparte’s younger sister and Queen Consort of Naples.

Built for Louise Grace—daughter of NYC’s two-time mayor and shipping magnate William R. Grace—this stuccoed Renaissance Revival cottage is a rare surviving example of an early American summer estate, set on 3,570 feet of private Maine shoreline.

Few Italian cities carry the layered resonance of Verona—where Roman arenas still stage summer operas and Shakespeare set Romeo and Juliet. Known as Italy’s “painted city,” this storied palazzo reveals a frescoed apartment at the heart of Piazza delle Erbe.

This château was built in 1910 in the style of 18th-century French neoclassicism, specifically the Château de Bellevue, which was commissioned by King Louis XV for his mistress, Madame de Pompadour.

On 34.5 acres with more than half a mile of Hudson River frontage, Ulster Landing is a circa-1800s Hudson River estate once held by one of America’s influential dynasties, the Livingston Family.