Luxury Real Estate Headlines: Second Week in May 2015

Highlights from this week’s top news stories on luxury and global real estate, art, collectibles and home.

$13,999,000 USD | West Yarmouth, Massachusetts | Sotheby’s International Realty – Osterville Brokerage

This approximately 5,851-square-foot, four-bedroom house is part of Great Island, a gated community on Cape Cod. It has a tower designed to look like a lighthouse and views of Nantucket Sound and Lewis Bay. The home sits on 3.82 acres with 640 feet of beach frontage and a private deep-water boat slip on a shared pier. Three Summer Getaways on the Water—Wall Street Journal

On the Market: A Pierre Koenig–designed home on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean—Architectural Digest

House hunting: 7 homes with beautiful natural lighting—The Week

On the Market: An 18th-century neoclassic villa in the hills of Tuscany—Architectural Digest

Metro Home Prices Maintain Steady Growth in First Quarter of 2015—National Association of Realtors

Real Estate in St. Lucia—New York Times

Realogy Issues First Annual Corporate Social Responsibility Report—RISMedia

A Rothko Tops Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Auction—New York Times

Manhattan’s Mid-Sized Market Makers—The Real Deal

Cartier Ruby Sets Record in $161 Million Sotheby’s Jewelry Sale—Bloomberg

How Blue Hill at Stone Barns Transplanted Its Farmhouse Feel Into a Sotheby’s Gallery—The New York Times