Bigger-Better-Brighter-Wider appears to be regaining popularity

For a while there, the huge megamansions of the 90s and early 2000s were a drag on the market, but no longer, it seems: 857 Lake Avenue, 16,000 sq.ft. of 1996 construction, “a European manor designed to be luxurious yet warm & unpretentious” has sold for $9.7 million.