US$2.5m can buy you some awful places

If the New York Times "What you get for ..." series is accurate, American houses are at their nicest at about US$1m and then get gimmicky or horrible as they get more expensive (even Ivan Lendl can't escape this rule - his house is here). This, a feature on US$2.5m houses broadly confirms the theory, although the last one at least has some character to it.