The couple bought their home - a four-bedroom Mediterranean-style villa with panoramic ocean views - for $1.1 million four years ago.

They were surprised and thrilled, especially when they visited a four-story, 2,500-square-foot Mediterranean-style villa, with a curved staircase inside and a lush garden outside.

The Mediterranean-style villa was built by Simplot in 1979.

Many of these houses remain, including a striking Mediterranean-style villa facing the Sound on Grovers Avenue.

For one thing, they lived in 50-room houses, or at least the Rosens, whose Mediterranean-style villa was not built as a museum, did.

The champagne house is in a Mediterranean-style villa with a terrace.

It is a 25,000-square-foot Mediterranean-style villa of pink stucco and limestone.

"She loved Mediterranean art and Mediterranean-style villas," Ms. Rubin said.

The 29 Mediterranean-style villas are 2,400 to 9,000 square feet, with indoor pools, private gardens and exercise rooms.

He was sitting in the living room of his new, white Mediterranean-style villa, which he helped design.