Katherine Clarke

Read this exciting story from The Wall Street Journal October 09, 2026 issue. Tech billionaire Larry Ellison plans to relist his North Palm Beach, Fla., estate for $165 million, said listing agents James Kenny and Paul Kaneb of K2 Realty.

High in California ’s San Jacinto Mountains near Idyllwild, a harvest-gold flying saucer is perched high on a large rock outcropping.

Mega-brokerage Compass is taking more listings offline, sparking backlash from rivals who say the practice is upending decades of market transparency.

Social-media battles. A cease and desist. Lawsuits and threats. The real-estate industry is tearing itself apart over a question that home

The owners lived in a smaller cabin on site for four years while picking out the perfect spot for their estate.

Candy and Greg Fazakerley were sitting at their kitchen table in Washington, D.C., one morning when Greg made a suggestion out of the blue: Perhaps they should buy a house in the country.

In elite enclaves like Palm Beach, billionaire buyers are demolishing even relatively new houses to secure prime lots for their own custom builds.

In March 2023, cosmetics billionaire William P. Lauder paid $155 million for the longtime oceanfront estate of the late radio host Rush Limbaugh, setting a then-record for Florida's Palm Beach.

Todd Michael Glaser says he and a partner will raze the existing house and could build two separate homes on the site

An oceanfront estate in Palm Beach, Fla., is in contract to be sold for about $160 million, according to the developer Todd Michael Glaser, who is one of the buyers.