More Homes Than Ever Are Selling for $50 Million. What’s Inside?

After saying goodbye to the gardens they’d tended, the rooms they’d decorated, and the views they’d woken up to for 30 years, Barbara Macklowe and her husband, Lloyd, put their house on the market. Like other couples in their 80s, they’d decided their residence and their lifestyle were no longer a match. “I’m definitely slowing down,” Barbara says. “My kids have their own homes, and my grandchildren are getting older.”

Unlike the homes of other octogenarians, though, the Macklowes’ ­property—technically, their vacation house—listed at $60 million, about 173 times the median U.S. home sales price.