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The article discusses U.S. luxury real-estate developments that offer access to nature preserves during the early 21st century. It discusses the San Clemente, California, development Sea Summit, the Georgia development Serenbe, and homes near Spring Island, South Carolina. The article presents comments from Atlanta, Georgia, photographer and Serenbe home owner Rob Brinson.

The article discusses Los Angeles, California, luxury homes on the real estate market as of early October 2015 that were once home to several significant actors and actresses including Bert Lahr, Betty Grable, and Don Johnson. The article also discusses privacy desired by actors, the challenges of selling homes owned by movie stars, and the impact of the sale price of homes previously owned by actors. The article presents comments from Los Angeles real estate agent Edward Fitz.

The article discusses an early 21st century U.S. real estate trend in which luxury home purchasers buy homes that are marketed and treated as teardowns in order to build new luxury homes featuring technological innovations and modern amenities. It discusses the razing of a 19th-century mansion in Darien, Connecticut, teardowns in a section of Beverly Hills, California, known as Trousdale Estates, and a house in Chicago, Illinois, near the baseball stadium Wrigley Field.

The article discusses the remodeling of bedrooms by empty nesters that housed children who have moved out of luxury homes in the U.S. and the reaction of some of those children to the changes in their former bedrooms. The article discusses the repurposing of bedrooms as home offices, yoga studios, and snore rooms. It discusses the Great Neck, New York, home of interior designer Evelyn Benatar, the Carmel, California, home of homeowner Elizabeth Smith, and the home of Dix Hills, New York, attorney Darlene Javits.