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“Members Only: Palm Beach” star Hilary Musser is working on a new TV project that could incorporate the area’s luxury real estate—and says she would also serve as a producer. While the future of the Netflix hit remains uncertain, Musser says she is already pursuing another opportunity, with casting among the steps she is working on. “I’m working on a different show right now,” she says. It's a project “where I would also be a producer.” Musser is keeping most of the details private for now. She says the network has not been determined, but the Palm Beach County setting could provide an opening to feature the industry in which she has built her business. “In Palm Beach County, we’re famous for our real estate,” she says. “Members Only: Palm Beach” star Hilary Musser is working on a new TV project that could incorporate the area’s luxury real estate—and says she would also serve as a producer. (Hilary Musser) However, she does not envision creating a series focused entirely on property. Instead, she says real estate could be one element of a broader concept. The project comes as Musser considers what she wants to do following her appearance on “Members Only: Palm Beach.” The series has not been canceled nor renewed. “It doesn’t really matter to me if the show gets renewed,” she says. Her introduction to that series came through fellow cast member Taja Abitbol, whom she met while serving on a fundraising committee. During a cocktail party, Abitbol asked whether she would be interested in interviewing for a TV show about country club life in Palm Beach. Musser agreed, having previously passed on other opportunities to appear on camera. She says she was approached about a Palm Beach housewives show in 2005, but declined after being filmed because she worried about the potential impact on her marriage and young son. This time, she decided to embrace the opportunity. During filming, Musser says she did not prepare dialogue or attempt to adopt a different personality. With a real estate business to consider, she wanted to present herself as she normally would. “I didn’t prepare what I was going to say,” she says. Alongside her TV appearance, Musser was also working on a waterfront spec home that she says was completed in June and is now offered for $42.5 million. The property is a development she built to sell. Separately, she describes her personal home as smaller but similarly finished. According to Musser, the spec home sits along the Intracoastal Waterway, across from the Palm Beach property being developed by billionaire Ken Griffin. Inside, she says the emphasis is on distinctive finishes and an uncompromising approach to quality, with leather-wrapped refrigerator handles, leather-lined kitchen drawers, Italian marble, and a separate chef’s kitchen. “Every door is 12 feet high,” she says. For Musser, those details reflect what she believes wealthy buyers want: a property that offers something different from other luxury homes, with spaces that provide their own reasons to stay in. While the future of the Netflix hit remains uncertain, Musser says she is already pursuing another opportunity, with casting among the steps she is working on. (Netflix) Musser is keeping most of the details private for now. She says the network has not been determined, but the Palm Beach County setting could provide an opening to feature the industry in which she has built her business. (Alekandra London/Getty Images) She describes a dining room that forms part of the wine room, along with a kitchen, living room, and theater that each deliver a different experience. “Every room is a destination,” she says. “A place where you can go and enjoy your friends and your family.” Her own lifestyle helps guide those decisions. Rather than approaching a development solely as something to sell, she considers whether she would enjoy living there herself. “And I build every house as if I’m going to live in it,” she says. Musser initially obtained her real estate license to improve her access to properties for her development business. She felt desirable opportunities were being claimed before reaching the market and wanted to put herself in a better position to find them. After working with a friend for a couple of years, she earned her broker’s license. Representing clients was not originally the goal, but requests from people in her community led her to begin showing and listing homes. She says her real estate business’ gross revenue quadrupled last year, and she regards her TV experience as a success from a business perspective. “I’m working on a different show right now,” Musser says. It is a project “where I would also be a producer.” (Hilary Musser) “The show has just opened up some new doors for me,” Musser says. (Netflix) Now, she is also pursuing brand partnerships, merchandising, social media opportunities, and a book she says she had wanted to work on since before the COVID-19 pandemic. “The show has just opened up some new doors for me,” she says. Still, the work behind her property business remains far less glamorous than the waterfront homes might suggest. Musser points to negotiating contracts, preparing properties for showings, following up with agents, and waiting for the right buyer. “You wish you could just produce a buyer when you want one,” she says. “But it doesn’t work like that.”

Referred to as the Rosemary and Joseph Baldwin Residence, a John Lautner-designed home seeks a new steward in the trendy Los Angeles neighborhood of Silver Lake. But what’s even more rare is that this three-bedroom, two-bath property spanning 1,679 square feet has had just one owner. With very few updates, it’s a veritable time capsule. Tucked into a wooded, hillside setting, Lautner balanced the home on posts anchored by shear walls. This creates a floating effect, made even more dramatic with floor-to-ceiling glass and a wraparound deck. That the home is seamlessly integrated into nature, including redwood-plank siding and skylights that coax in nature light, are two other marvels. “The house is completely original, minus a tree that was growing through the teak deck in the backyard and that needed to be removed,” says Louis Magnano of Modern California House, who is handling the $2,099,999 listing. “It’s about as original as you can get in 2026.” John Lautner designed the house by balancing it on posts, so it appears like it's floating in the trees. (Cameron Carothers) The living room's fireplace is original to the home. (Cameron Carothers) Adjacent to the home's courtyard is this dining nook. (Cameron Carothers) This includes the entire kitchen as well as lighting fixtures, mahogany paneling, and terrazzo and parquet flooring. As well, the fireplace is original, and all of the windows, too. Each bedroom’s built-ins are also intact. The living room’s inverted-pyramid ceiling and triangular clerestory windows are also striking. “It’s completely original, which is very rare for these types of homes in L.A.,” says Magnano. “They get traded (and) things are done to them when they shouldn’t be. This house doesn’t have that. Whoever is going to purchase this home and be the next steward will need to restore and bring it up to today’s standards but while maintaining the original quality of the home. The sellers want to see it restored.” This could mean updating the systems, for starters. How often does a Lautner-designed home hop onto the market, though? “They have been coming up quite frequently for sale in the last few years,” says Magnano, “but there’s so few and far between, maybe it’s just a special time in the marketplace.” In 1955, Lautner—a Taliesin Fellow under Frank Lloyd Wright during the 1930s—was commissioned by commercial artist James Baldwin and his wife Rosemary to create their family home, utilizing a 7,491-square-foot lot. Rosemary’s sister introduced them to Lautner. Lautner’s residence (Silvertop) is on the same street as the Baldwin home. “Silver Lake is really known for a lot of its architectural history, not only by John Lautner, but Richard Neutra, Rudolph Schinder, to name a few starchitects,” says Magnano. Lautner would later design three other Southern California homes that put him on the map: The Chemosphere (1960), The Sheats-Goldstein Residence (1961-1963) and The Elrod Residence (1968). “The Baldwin Residence marks a pivotal moment in that career: its siting, spatial progression, and detail recall Wright, even as they reveal Lautner's own emerging voice,” reads the listing, adding that this is “an authentic piece of Los Angeles architectural history and a rare stewardship opportunity that may not come again.” Within many rooms, including this bedroom, are original built-ins. (Cameron Carothers) Like the rest of the home, the kitchen has been preserved and remains in its original state. (Cameron Carothers) Throughout the home, including in this bath, there's a conscious effort to invite natural light in. (Cameron Carothers) In addition to the striking interior design, another wow-worthy feature are views of the Hollywood Hills and San Gabriel Mountains. What will also likely attract buyers is the location. As a haven for artists, it’s similar to the type of community that drew the Baldwins there back in the 1950s. “Silver Lake has a very rich artist community and it’s vibrant, with young people, and there’s new cafes and a lot of nightlife happening in the area,” says Magnano. “There’s a lot of development happening in Silver Lake and a big restoration project taking place in the reservoir that the city of Los Angeles is getting ready to break ground on soon, to beautify the area.” The ideal buyer, he says, is “somebody who understands the significance of these historical properties, who wants to restore them and honor them and keep them in the original glory that they all are. It was a family home for the Baldwins. They had three children. It could be a family home (again) but it could be somebody’s second home or ‘home away from home.’”

A new masterplanned community in Northeast Florida will offer multiple organic farms to attract buyers who are more interested in fresh vegetables than the state's famed beaches. Saratoga Springs, a new development from Freehold Communities, will eventually have about 4,500 homes within multiple communities on 2,400 acres of land. Located in Green Cove Springs, outside of Jacksonville, the "agrihood" will contain numerous working farms, bringing sustainable agriculture, farm-to-table dining, farmers' markets, and all things farm-related to the community. Agrihoods, which mix subdivision developments with agriculture, most often appear in communities with large, undeveloped tracts of land or existing agricultural zoning. This combination of agricultural land and neighborhood must then be developed to include housing while still incorporating an agricultural component of the community, according to Freehold Communities. Saratoga Springs in Clay County, FL is one of a growing number of "agrihood" masterplanned communities that centers on working farms. (Freehold Communities) The first phase of the Saratoga Springs agrihood—a 55-plus community called Sagebrooke—began sales in August 2026. The gated senior community is built by Ryan Homes, with eight single-family home designs ranging from 1,488 to 2,729 square feet. The active adult community will contain the usual amenities—such as a resort-style pool and pickleball, tennis, bocce courts and a putting green—but also boasts a private working farm and vineyard, a farm share from harvested crops, and a farm store. Here, the signature crop will be a muscadine vineyard featuring Florida’s native grape, which thrives in the heat and humidity. Home prices in the development range from $349,990 to $556,990. A spokesperson for Freehold wouldn't reveal the number of sales thus far but says that "it's exciting to see the level of demand." Meet the farm director Carmen Eldridge, 40, cofounder with her husband, Tripp, of Convivial Foodscapes, is heading up the farm aspect of Saratoga Springs. The couple led farm planning on two other Freehold agrihoods—Arden, in Palm Beach County; and Carnes Crossroads in Goose Creek, SC. The pair navigate the process for creating functional agrihoods—everything from vetting land purchases, to business planning and budgets, to irrigation needs, to farm design and infrastructure construction, as well as distribution models for getting the produce into the wider community. "It's a movement that is catching on," she says of agrihoods. According to an Urban Land Institute study, agrihoods are a growing trend, available in at least 27 states. Key agrihood features include conservation space, protected farmland, farm stands and markets, and edible landscaping. Carmen and Tripp Eldridge break ground at agrihood Saratoga Springs in Clay County, FL in Jan. 2025. (Freehold Communities) Saratoga Springs will incorporate multiple working organic farms into its housing development. (Freehold Communities) "People are drawn to the idea of living closer to where their food comes from," says Eldridge. "They like the wide open green spaces, and are into healthy eating and longevity." "It's more appealing to live near an organic farm than a golf course," she adds, noting that a lot of parents want their children to know that "a carrot comes out of the ground, not from a bag in the grocery store." The Saratoga Springs farms will be cultivated by professional farmers—not the residents. But residents will be able to pick or bring home farm produce round the clock, a perk included in the HOA fees. (They will not have private plots or gardens.) Eldridge tells Realtor.com that her agrihood consultancy has been in brisk demand as sustainable farms become the latest trend in the masterplanned community world. But she asserts that farms go far beyond typical amenities such a pool, fitness center, or pickleball courts. "A farm is social infrastructure, it's not just an amenity," she says. "It creates repeated, meaningful touch points between neighbors. A farm actively builds a community identity in a way that other amenities can’t replicate. That’s why it’s catching more attention now." She counts Freehold as among the leaders in the agrihood trend. "Some developers want to put in a community garden to check the box, like, got the dog park, got the pool, got the community garden, check," she says. "But they go all-in and do it really well." Residents will have plenty of access to fresh grown produce, which is included in HOA dues. (Freehold Communities) Becoming an agrihood consultant Eldridge says farming is in her blood, as her maternal immigrant grandparents had been farmers in Spain. "At the time, everyone was a farmer," she says. "There were no grocery stores. You farmed or you died." She grew up with plenty of fresh produce from her family's backyard gardens. "I didn't think much of it at the time," she says. "I was just told to go out back and pick some green beans for dinner." When she informed her grandparents that she was going to study organic crop production in college, they weren't too pleased. "They said, 'We moved here so you didn't have to be a farmer!'" After graduating from the University of Florida with a degree in Political Science, focusing on Agriculture Policy and Organic and Sustainable Crop Production, Eldridge served as a Sustainable Agriculture Peace Corps volunteer in Panama, then founded a teaching farm at the University of North Florida. Eventually, she and husband, Tripp, worked to set up the farms at Freehold's Arden agrihood, where they served as farm directors for five years; then they designed and built the farm at Carnes Crossroads. Saratoga Springs will have an active senior community dubbed Sagebrooke that will boast the usual amenities such as this resort-style pool. (Freehold Communities) The pair, who jokingly refer to themselves as "landless farmers," formed Convivial Foodscapes in 2020, and soon afterward came aboard the Saratoga Springs project. Agrihoods, and the employment of local farmers to work the land, have been somewhat of an unexpected and steady income source for those in the notoriously difficult farming industry. Farmers from the vicinity are also invited into the private community to sell produce and goods, offering a larger customer base for those who work the land on tight margins. "Our farmer population is aging," she says, noting that agrihoods offer "a job for farmers with a living wage and health benefits." Eldridge, who uses only organic farming techniques, takes great joy in people's reactions to fresh produce. "I love when people's faces light up when they learn what a real tomato actually tastes like," she says. "I live for those moments." Saratoga Springs will have social gardens where residents can bond over picking produce, included in HOA fees. (Freehold Communities) But what most excites Eldrige about the concept of agrihoods and their growing popularity is the social aspects. Farms offer diverse ways for communities to connect through food—picking produce, volunteering, helping to farm, attending workshops, hosting farm-to-table meals, or mingling at special events tied to fresh food or signature crops. Eldridge, who often attends model home showings at Saratoga Springs, says that the buyer pool is very broad—everyone from young families to downsizing retirees—but they often have one thing in common: they are foodies at heart. "There is something universally appealing about food," she says. "We all like to eat and we all have a food story." "It really does bring people together."

A Florida home has more than double the beachfront access as its neighbors. “It’s incredible. There's nothing like it at all on Bonita Beach and one of the things that really makes this so special is this is two and a half lots of frontage. That's 125 feet of beach access,” says listing agent Colleen Pensa with Premier Sotheby's International Realty, Vanderbilt office. Most of the other nearby lots have 50 feet of frontage. “Once you get into the house, the whole back of the house is glass and all you see is the Gulf,” she says. “You don't have to go out to the beach to where the water breaks and lean over. It's incredible.” The front yard makes the home stand out. (Premier Media Group) There are walls of glass to capitalize on the views. (Premier Media Group) Completed in 2019, the home is 6,543 square feet of “coastal elegance” and is listed for $18.25 million. “Once you go in and you shut the door, it's like you're in a different world. It's soothing and it's relaxing and it's really well done,” Pensa explains, adding it was custom-built for the sellers who used it as a secondary home. “I have been doing this a long time and this house literally took my breath away. I was just absolutely stunned and the quality of everything that they've used is just incredible.” There are five bedrooms and seven full bathrooms, all capitalizing on the views. “I wish I could buy it. I wish I could live there. I'm a beach girl, so this house to me is absolutely everything I would want,” she says with a laugh. “Plenty of room for my family, for my kids, nobody's on top of each other.” The garage is on the lowest level. (Premier Media Group) The house has plenty of space. (Premier Media Group) The home was custom-built to take advantage of the views. (Premier Media Group) The lowest level of the house is the six-car garage, with the large common living spaces above it. “You can sit 10 people on the kitchen island without sitting in the table that sits in the window overlooking the beach,” Pensa says. “There's plenty of room for everybody and it doesn't come along that often. They seem to be building much more modern now. This is really like old style Florida coastal elegance.” The color palate is primarily white and blue with raised ceilings and custom millwork. The furnishings are negotiable and the home could either be a vacation property or full-time residence. “I think you'd be very lucky if you could live every day of your life at the beach. I mean, that would work for me,” she says laughing. “My favorite thing about the house is that I could get up every single day and be in a place that to me is magical. When I'm on the beach, any worries, any issues, anything just kind of melts away. So, to me, this is really like heaven on earth.” Each bathroom has spa-like amenities. (Premier Media Group) There are five bedrooms, all with views. (Premier Media Group) The outdoor area is just off the main living space with huge windows opening to it. “If you don't want to go to the beach, there's a saltwater pool. There's a covered entertainment area that has a gas fireplace and has ceiling fans and an outdoor kitchen,” she says. “The pool has an infinity edge, so if you're sitting in a chaise lounge and you're looking across the pool. It looks like the water just drops right off the edge. It's incredible. It is literally a different world.” The pool is on the main level and has an infinity edge. (Premier Media Group) The home has more than twice the beach frontage as nearby homes. (Premier Media Group) The front of the house also stands about from its neighbors and not just because it’s more than three quarters of an acre. “This [house] actually has a front yard and the the driveway is stone with grass in between. When you look at it, it just draws your eye right to the house,” Pensa explains. “Some [other driveways] are just paved. Some of them are just gravel, but this is completely done. There's nothing left to do in the house and it's very, very well maintained.” Everything is ready for the next owners. “I think this really is just a place that you're going to create memories. That's really what it is,” she says. “It's really an escape to get away and just kind of unplug and recharge. And if you're lucky enough to live there every day, that's great too.”