A drop in property prices meant that Lionberg's multimillion-dollar estate was unsalable in the late-nineties market.

Today, the town is home to multimillion-dollar estates and attracts its share of affluent residents.

Securing the sale of the multimillion-dollar estate was considered quite a coup.

Both would slash taxes on multimillion-dollar estates.

The idea that this is a good moment to repeal a tax on people who inherit multimillion-dollar estates is mind-boggling.

The relative handful of multimillion-dollar estates that generated the bulk of estate tax revenues would have remained subject to the tax.

"The ideas are generally inexpensive, less than $500, alhtough we do have shows like 'Fantasy Open House' that take you on tours of multimillion-dollar estates."

She still lives in the town's "back country," amid wooded multimillion-dollar estates, sharing a rambling turn-of-the-century house with 13 other elderly men and women.

There, home buyers can find modest houses on larger properties as well as multimillion-dollar cliff-top estates.

A counselor told me of a client whose pact grants her an escalating percentage of her husband's multimillion-dollar estate for every child she bears.