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below is my sample application for robert baratheon-lannister. apps won’t be posted with acceptances. this is an example to give you an idea of what i’m looking for in apps, but there is not an exception that applicants write each part in the same style or of the same length as me; i’m self-aware enough to know this sample is a lot! hope this is helpful and enjoy!!

OOC.

name: roman

age: 26

pronouns: they/them

timezone: est

triggers: {omitted}

in the game of thrones you win or you die, would you be open to your character dying?: he’s gotta die for things to get better, kill this motherfucker, but only once he’s served his purpose and i’ve had some fun with him

anything else: i smell like beef

IN CHARACTER.

full name: Robert Steffan Baratheon-Lannister

gender + pronouns: cis man + he/him

age & dob: 35 years old, July 25, 1983

faceclaim: Oliver Jackson-Cohen

personality:

Those who’ve known Robert his whole life will tell you what he was like in his youth with something of a wistful smile. That he’s always been CHARISMATIC, a natural people person, who somehow attracts loyalty from anyone who gives him the chance. Maybe it’s a little different now, a little less charming, and a little more entitled, but it’s a charisma that still exists, one that he still turns on when he wants something or needs to get something done. One a lot of the people of Westeros are still charmed by, if not the elite.

There’s PASSION to everything he does, every little choice full of so much intensity that at times it’s overwhelming. Everything he does, he does fully, whether it’s good or bad. There’s no such thing as middle ground in his world, he cares deeply, or he doesn’t care at all. And that comes with the BOLDNESS. In a way, it always felt like he had to be bold, had to make choices strongly and quickly, without fear. After all, he was barely nineteen when his father died, leaving him with not only a business to look after, but also a family.

More often than not, though, he’s RASH about what he does, not giving anything much thought, but letting explosive emotions rule action, without considering consequences. STUBBORN and NARROW-SIGHTED, unwilling to consider any other option once he’s made his mind up. He willfully blinds himself to the problems around him, because he doesn’t think there’s any point in trying to change things if it’s not going to work, in his mind.

There’s an unwillingness to acknowledge mistakes, or accept consequences when the choices do lead to bad outcomes. It leads to a lot of anger, and that’s something he’s never dealt with properly. In his mind, it’s much easier to deal with pretty much any problem with a PHYSICAL solution; it’s something he is very good at, but rarely is the appropriate response to a problem, especially now that the fighting’s been done for so many years.

headcanons:

storm’s end & the eyrie (cw death)

Family has always been about a name in Westeros, a person’s whole identity inexplicably wrapped up in something they can’t even control. It’s fucked up, at least to him. It’s fucked up, but he’s aware, even if most people think he’s too much of an idiot to be, how caught up in it he is, too.

Appearance is everything, after all, and even if he hasn’t managed to keep up his own public appearance, he cares about the name, even if the people he considers his family don’t share a surname with him.

He loves his brothers, of course. That is something he will always argue, no matter what it seems to the outside world, no matter what it seems to either of them. But he’s never been able to bring himself to feel truly connected to either of them. Stannis is too different at his very core, almost as if they didn’t share a father at all, for how utterly unlike both of them he was. And Renly, well, he was already a teenager when his youngest brother was born, and he ended up more like an amusing plaything than a brother before their parents’ deaths. After, he was a burden, passed off to be raised by close family friends instead of looked after by his own brother. Robert already found someone who actually felt like what a brother should be in a way Stannis never quite had, and Renly couldn’t by then, after all.

So he loves his family, yes. But his family hasn’t been anyone with solely Baratheon at the end of their name in quite the way it should be for a long, long time.

He was so caught up in it all, so caught up in his own life, that he hadn’t considered the idea that things could change.

It was all going fantastically after all. They lived lavishly, and his parents were good, genuinely good. His mother and father and their partners ran the business, Stag Realty Group, ran the real estate market of Westeros. They’d made sure he was set up with a good future, one that he chose, and that started with finding a mentor in his mother’s close friend, Jon Arryn. And that’s where he found the people he would come to consider his family, that’s where he met Ned.

The thing is, it actually wasn’t going fantastically, but he didn’t notice until it was too late to try to help. His father didn’t have quite as much time, as years passed by, to devote to his children, Aerys asking more and more of him as he deteriorated himself. Not as much time, either, for the love they’d all built. More strain, less openness, Robert didn’t even realize he’d been making up for it by spending more and more time at the Eyrie with the ones who still had time for him.

And then the family he’d let himself forget was gone, a storm breaking it completely. A shipwreck with his parents and their partners on it, returning from a business trip on Aerys’s behalf across the Narrow Sea. And he watched, he stood there with Stannis on the docks, there to greet them after a few weeks away, and instead saw them all die. Somehow, it was harder to look at Stannis than to look at the wreckage together, to identify the bodies together, to go through belongings, to go through wills together.

It’s hard to look in the eye of someone who looks like the death of your childhood, after all.

It’s hard to look at someone who thinks the same of you.

the trident (cw violence, blood, murder)

The thing is, it wasn’t self-defense. Maybe for a moment, at the beginning, when he’d tried to ask him why he’d done it all, when they stood there, the riots raging on the other side of the river, looking at each other. He couldn’t help but remember how they had played together, laughed together, way back when as kids, when names meant nothing, and something as silly as love couldn’t get in the way of things.

Love.

That was only a moment, though, because Rhaegar smiled. Had said so simply, voice somehow clear over the din of the riots...

You don’t understand love, cousin. If you did, we wouldn’t be standing here, you would’ve let her go a long time ago.

No. No part of what he did to Rhaegar could be considered what the court ruled it, not before those words, and certainly not after. When he went to the Trident to meet him, he knew exactly what he was going to do, one way or another. The words just sent him over the edge, forcing him to take action sooner. But he had already decided.

Why else would he have had the brass knuckles gripped in his pocket?

Dozens of witnesses, and yet not one of them was able to say for sure how it had started, although most swore it was Rhaegar. He still wonders how many of them Jon had bribed with power or safety, how many of them were threatened to lie under oath to guarantee he’d walk free. How many of the jurors were gifted generously afterward for their verdicts with Lannister money. And yet he doesn’t ask, even though he knows he could easily find out. Because he knows it was him who began it. He had to do something about that smile, had to prove him wrong by fighting for the love he seemed to think he didn’t understand.

It was lucky that his cousin had had the same plan. Lucky, oddly enough, that he’d pulled the knife so soon, had caught him just under the collar bone with the blade, before he’d pulled his decorated fist from his pocket. That was enough to put it on him.

Robert Baratheon would’ve died instead, Jon had insisted, if he hadn’t defended himself from Rhaegar Targaryen’s vicious attack.

He hardly remembers most of it, just the smell of copper, his own grunts of pain mixed with Rhaegar’s, the sear of the blade cutting any part of him he could find as they struggled. And the blood, he remembers the blood blooming from broken skin as he kept hitting, over and over again, long after he should’ve stopped.

He’d never admit to anyone now just how convinced he was that he would end up locked away for the rest of his life. He’d never admit how much sleep he’s lost thinking of what he did, or worse, not regretting it at all. Would never admit how he still hears those words now, and wonders what they meant.

How selfish, that after everything, that was the only time he truly felt fear. Not even when he heard that Lyanna had been kidnapped, not when he had helped in the fighting, not when he stared down the cousin he used to love. No, dying would’ve been easy; he’s so intimate with death already.

Living is much worse.

And now he’s not so sure that he hasn’t been punished anyway, even though he walked free. He thinks maybe the power is his real punishment in the end. What is the realm, anyway, when what he had been fighting for was his love, his humanity?

There was a gun, he’d had a gun somewhere, and he learned during the trial that Rhagaer did, too. And yet, neither of them had used them.

No, it wasn’t self-defense. It was something much more personal.

king’s landing

He changed his middle name when he changed his last name. It was a two-for-one deal, after all; since he already had to change his last name, then why not do another while he was already at the courthouse signing the paperwork? It was a whim, but it felt right, and that’s really all it’s ever taken to get him to do something, an urge and some confidence.

He always hated his middle name, anyway, first because it sounded stupid, and then later because it attached him to the Targaryens. Aegon, after his great-grandfather. Who throws Aegon on their kid, even smashed between two semi-normal names? No, he shed the weight of a name like that as soon as he had the chance, having always conveniently left out his middle name even before the betrayal that led to the rebellion. He used to tell people his parents just forgot to choose one. That was easier.

He’d rather just be a Baratheon, anyway.

So that’s what he chose. Steffan was his late father’s name, and it only felt right to pay tribute to him. He was a good man, a good leader, the sort of person Robert always hoped he could be. Maybe he thought somewhere in the back of his mind that taking his name might make that easier. But it didn’t work.

Because he’s a fucking Lannister, too, apparently.

Here he is, with the stupid fucking hyphenated surname on every official document he has to sign. Hell, it still looks like a third grader learning cursive for the first time is writing the Lannister part, tacked onto the signature he’d already perfected. The issue of the last name still makes him roll his eyes to this day. Even knowing her well, he’d foolishly assumed Cersei would take his surname. But he should’ve known, because hasn’t he done things equally as wicked as every other Lannister in history?

“Why should I have to be the one to take on your identity? We’re getting married, it’s not some life changing thing.”

“I’d disagree with that, but fine, I’ll bite. It’s not fair to lose your name. Hyphenate it.”

“You hyphenate it, if it’s such a throwaway thing.”

“As much as I like you, sometimes you really just make me want to punch myself in the face, did you know that? I’ll hyphenate, if you hyphenate, too. Fair’s fair.”

“Alright then, Lannister-Baratheon it is.”

“No, no, no, how the fuck do you think it’ll look to the realm if I’m Robert Lannister suddenly? Besides, it sounds better alphabetically. Baratheon comes first.”

“No, it doesn’t, Lannister does.”

Silence.

“There’s no law saying we have to match, and if there is, well, I can get rid of it...”

blacktyde (cw alcohol, drugs)

It’s not something he ever planned on becoming, somehow who relies on escapism to get through one fucking day, one fucking night, but here he is.

It’s not like he ever imagined his life as any of this, anyway. And that’s the problem, it’s always been the problem. He never wanted to rule, not really, all he wanted was to bring her home safely, to be together, to have a life. But he couldn’t even do that right, and now that life is gone for good, just like Lyanna.

Before, it was always just something those around him laughed at, or rolled their eyes at. It was a joke, the way he never tried to reel in any of his appetites. When he was younger, it was something amusing, to see how he literally charmed the pants off of anyone he wanted so easily, and never hung around much longer than that, it was impressive the way he could drink anyone under the table, it was cool how he never backed down from a fight, and always won.

Boys will be boys, that’s what they say.

No, boys will be men who have no fucking clue how to cope with any hint of emotion; who have to keep drinking, and fighting, and fucking to even try to deal with reality when things don’t go their way.

Now it’s just depressing. But he can’t stop, doesn’t know how, or maybe worse, is too afraid to confront any of what happened to stop.

There’s been too much loss, and he’s tried too hard to fill in the gaps that can never be filled. So that’s what he keeps doing, because what the fuck else is there? It’s easier to be halfway to drunk at any given moment to keep the thoughts hazy, easier to find a pair or two of random arms to keep him warm in the hard moments than to let himself risk a heartbreak, easier to get to sleep if he’s sent off with a sip of the evening than to wake up thinking he’s smelling the copper of his blood mixed with his cousin’s.

It was nice, for a while. He knows, even if they all think he’s too fucking stupid to realize. He knows that they’re all tired of the act, knows that they see through it. For a while, it was excusable. Maybe even further than that, the city was glad to have a Protector so human, one who was as unafraid of standing against injustice, as he was to show his vices. But that ended years ago. He knows they whisper about how incompetent he is.

The funny thing is, though, that they think he doesn’t agree. Because he does, truly. He knows he’s been a horrible Protector, maybe as bad as Aerys, in a different way. He knows, but somehow he can’t bring himself to do much about it.

It’s always been easier to ignore a problem, after all, until it’s taken care of, or it consumes him whole.

INTERVIEW

ii. what’s your morning routine?

“Morning routine? Is this a personal interest piece you’re writing?” he laughs, shaking his head as he runs through the truth, crafting a lie.

Wake up late hungover from shade of the evening, coffee with whiskey (mostly the latter), scalding shower to try to feel less dirty, another drink, listen to messages, ignore messages, swipe through Tinder, swipe through Grindr, lie on bed for half an hour thinking of every mistake you’ve made, get up, get dressed, look in the mirror, hate yourself, wait for someone to tell you what to do.

“It’s like anyone else’s. Alarm wakes me up, I’ll go through messages before I even make it out of the bedroom. Sometimes I’ll go for a run if I manage to wake up early enough. Stop on the way back and get Cersei her venti iced almond milk cappuccino with cold foam, extra shot of espresso, and three pumps of hazelnut. Or whatever. Drink half of it myself before I can make it to the Red Keep,” a wave of his hand brushes that one off. People like that sort of thing, a little humanity thrown into it. Not that that matters anymore, not that the whole city doesn’t know how horribly human he is.

“Usually, though, I’ll go through the news with some coffee, then take a nice hot shower, wake myself up. Breakfast with the family, sometimes Jon comes up early and goes through the day, then I get ready and head to work. Work being downstairs, but you know, nice to forget that sometimes. Simple.”

vii. have you ever lost someone you loved?

“What a cruel question. Who hasn’t in this damn city? To death, to circumstances, to life. If there’s one common thread in my life, it’s that. Loss. But I’m not special in that. Any of us who lived through the riots share that. I think that’s why it hasn’t gotten to that point again, in over a decade, no matter how much we all disagree. It’s not me, that’s stopping it––I’m not an idiot, no matter what the people think––it’s knowing how it feels to lose what you love. We can’t bear the thought of doing it again.”

ix. who was your last text to, and what did it say?

“You know I probably can’t tell you, right? Like, it was probably something important. There’s a council meeting tomorrow,” he says raising an eyebrow, but shifting to pull his phone out of his back pocket.

“Are you saying you run Westeros through text messages?”

He stops where he was, looks up as his thumbprint unlocks it with an amused smile, before looking back down as he goes on.

“Are you saying you wouldn’t if you had the option? What year do you think this is? Texting is faster than emailing, I’m not going to get on a fuckin’ conference call with them, and gods know I don’t want to see their faces every day,” he laughs, a hint of something bitter to the words.

Scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, thumb finally stops. He goes on before the reporter can question it. “It was to Ned. I said: ‘knock, knock, motherfucker, I’m outside with a dozen boston creme donuts with your name written on them, and yes, I do need something in return.’”

A long pause.

“Are you saying you were bribing Eddard Stark?”

EXTRAS (OPTIONAL):

pinterest board!

character tag!

old playlist! (yes, it is exclusively fall out boy songs because bobby b is a walking emo song)

likes: Being surrounded by people, expensive clothes, Ned Stark, being shirtless, drinking, an intricate skincare routine, Cersei’s voice, using his Alexa for anything at all, beautiful people, being praised, making fun of Littlefinger to anyone, too-sweet coffee, sleeping in, skin-on-skin contact, a well-placed punch, a life of luxury, fucking with Stannis, Davos’s onion rings, shade of the evening, candles that smell like men (you know the ones), bubble baths with other people

dislikes: Targaryens, wearing suits, aging, responsibility, council meetings, the cold, storms especially on the coast, monogamy, sailing, the smell of blood, the justice system, board rooms, listening to Tywin, being alone, being sober, the Narrow Sea, having to be serious, thinking critically about his actions, dealing with the Martells, having every action judged, sharing a bathroom with Cersei, conversely having to go downstairs to take a shower when she’s taking too long

random hcs:

He still has the brass knuckles he killed Rhaegar with. He knows he shouldn’t, knows that if the public found out, it would look even worse for him than it already does, and yet. After the trial was over, after the council had chosen him to lead, he used that power to get that piece of evidence back, even if it is an illegal weapon. He hasn’t used them since, but it’s a comfort, knowing he has them. It’s a small thing, to have a tangible reminder that he got the revenge he needed, even if it was too late.

In all honesty, Robert doesn’t really have many true friends. He has plenty of acquaintances, plenty of people who try their best to act the part, to get something from him. But there’s only one person he really considers his friend and trusts wholly, and that’s Ned Stark.

His favorite drink at Hightower is their version of Pink Drink, and you’d be hard pressed to get him to have a coffee when that’s an option.

His favorite alcoholic drink is any. Literally just whatever’s closest.

Even though after his parents’ deaths he was put in charge of Stag Realty Group and Storm’s End, it was never going to be his business. He was more interested in what he learned from Jon Arryn, ended up with a degree in law instead, using it for his political motivations. He wanted to be loved. Instead, he put his parents’ close family friends, the Penroses, in charge of the real estate group on his behalf until Renly is old enough to take over, and he worked his way into politics, taking over his father’s empty council seat a few years later. He didn’t even bother to offer Storm’s End to Stannis.

His passion for law and politics has long since cooled into indifference, though, now that he’s seen how royally fucked the whole system is, and knows it doesn’t matter, anyway, that the people with enough money can do what they want, run the city from their high horses, and that the people’s love doesn’t mean anything in the grand scheme of things.

The only person he has ever been in love with is Lyanna Stark. He loved her for years and years and years, and did everything he could to win her love, too, which was easy, because of how well they fit together. They gave each other the adventure and excitement they needed, and he looked forward to every moment spent with her, every moment apart like a small eternity. She made him want to be better, because she deserved someone who was good. And it feels a whole lot like the good parts of him died with her, like she was the only thing keeping him from becoming what he is now.

Well, maybe he’s a little in love with Ned, and maybe he always will be, but that’s neither here nor there, since Ned’s happily married having built what Robert considers the greatest family in the world, and he knows he isn’t interested in being married to two people at once. (He knows, because he asked.)

Cersei does mean the world to him, even if not in the way a spouse necessarily should. He respects her deeply, and at this point feels more comfortable with her than without. The thing about her is that not for a minute did she ever expect anything else from him, but exactly what he was. Even from that first night spent together, in which they both hesitated to leave, a change of events in which they both stayed and slept next to each other, there was never any illusion. She’s the only one who’s ever been able to handle how he is, and he feels that he could say the same vice versa. He’s not in love with her, but maybe he loves her, in his own strange way, without realizing it.

Thanks in part to the unconventional family situation he was raised it, Robert finds it nearly impossible to even fathom monogamy. To him, it’s not cheating, because he knows Cersei knows, even if it’s not always him who tells her. Even if he were married to someone he was in love with, he would still crave the openness of polyamory. And it’s easier now, too, to indulge in his desires with whoever he wants, because it keeps him from getting too close to any one person, and the potential of losing love again.

As such, he’s bisexual as fuck, and would never let something as silly as gender keep him from having fun with someone. Are you attractive and consenting? Then you’re Robert’s type.

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Ritzy Rentals: America’s 10 Priciest Neighborhoods for Apartment Dwellers

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If it seems that rents just keep on going up and up and up, well, that’s because they do.

With all of the obsessive attention paid to the thrill-packed, roller-coaster ride of rising prices and falling inventories that characterize today’s home-buying market, it’s easy to overlook the fact that roughly a third of Americans are renters, not owners. And rents—which, last time we checked, were already too damn high—have increased by 13% over the past five years for a two-bedroom place, according to Apartment List data. Ouch!

If it’s any consolation, there’s always going to be someone shelling out more than you. Maybe way more. In fact there are entire neighborhoods in the U.S. where the typical renter is throwing down $10,000, $15,000, even $30,000 a month. Realtor.com set out to find these exclusive nabes in some of the biggest, most desirable cities in the country.

And before you play the sad trombones for folks coughing up these amounts, let’s acknowledge that many are whiling away their days and nights in luxe high-rises offering everything from valet parking to robot butlers. And plenty are high-income individuals renting by choice, not necessity.

“The math between renting versus buying is starting to lean toward renting,” says Dolly Lenz, a New York–based luxury real estate broker. “They can’t deduct as much on their taxes anymore—so it makes less sense to buy.”

To find the most expensive places for renters, we pulled every two-bedroom rental on realtor.com in March and calculated a median rent price for every ZIP code. A bit of perspective: The median rent for these types of apartments across the U.S. is $1,100 per month.

We excluded ZIP codes with fewer than 12 listings and limited the ranking to no more than two neighborhoods per state (sorry, California and New York) and no more than one neighborhood per county.

Got it? It’s time to plunder those trust funds, have a blank check ready for first and last months’ rent and security deposit, and take a tour with us of the priciest rental markets in the U.S. Buckle up!

Most Expensive Rentals

Claire Widman

1. The Hamptons (Montauk, NY)

ZIP code: 11954 Median two-bedroom rent: $30,000

Montauk, NY, rental for $76,000 a month

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This lovely seaside community in the Hamptons—widely known as “The End,” since it’s the easternmost point of Long Island—has gone through some big shifts in recent years. A longtime summer magnet for stressed New Yorkers fleeing the city, it’s still more family-oriented and lower key than nearby beautiful people playgrounds like Southhampton. But prices here keep escalating. While it’s far from the most expensive Hampton town to buy a home (median list prices here are $2.1 million, compared with $3.8 million in Water Mill, NY), rentals are another story.

These can range from one-bedroom units in full-service luxury buildings that lease for around $20,000 a month, to four-bedroom houses with an ocean view that rent for more than $80,000 in the summer and fall to under $30,000 after September.

It’s worth noting that, for an ultrapricey community, amenities here don’t always scream luxury. Simple things such as AC, pools, and parking for family and friends are highly sought-after.

Still, it’s hard to deny the lure of a place where world-class beaches and world-famous lobster rolls are just a bike ride away.

“Montauk appeals to folks looking for a quieter, more laid-back beach experience than you might find in the more ‘stylish’ Hamptons,” says Joe Cordes, owner of Comax Properties.

2. Aspen, CO

ZIP code: 81611 Median two-bedroom rent: $12,000

Aspen, CO, rental—yours for $250,000 a month

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It’s always been difficult to snag an apartment during ski season in Aspen. Now, it’s becoming nearly as hard to line one up in the summer as the wealthy are beginning to stay here year-round.

Prices are so high in America’s premier ski town that units renting for upward of $10,000 a month aren’t even considered luxury here. The most expensive Aspen rental right now is an eight-bedroom mansion complete with a wraparound balcony and an outdoor fireplace for a sweet $250,000 a month.

Naturally, all of these rentals are just a short trek to the Snowmass Mountain with its 3,362 acres of terrain, and 94 trails and Buttermilk Mountain, home to the Winter X Games.

3. Century City (Los Angeles, CA)

ZIP code: 90067 Median two-bedroom rent: $10,750

Condo building in L.A.’s Century City neighborhood

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Developed on the former backlot of film studio 20th Century Fox, and nestling Beverly Hills, Century City has become L.A.’s destination for luxury high-rise rentals. Its new crown jewel is Ten Thousand, a 40-story tower equipped with Botox rooms (yes, it’s a thing) and a private rooftop terrace with views of the ocean and downtown Los Angeles. It opened in 2017 with rentals starting at around $10,000 a month—although the penthouse will set tenants back about $60,000.

“This area is so expensive because most of the rental properties are true full-service buildings,” says local real estate agent Jennifer Okhovat of Compass. “Tenants have valet service, a concierge, 24/7 security, cleaning crews, tennis courts, you name it.”

Century City gets a mix of wealthy executives and Hollywood elites who are downsizing from their mansions and looking for a lower-maintenance lifestyle.

4. Fisher Island (Miami, FL)

ZIP code: 33109 Median two-bedroom rent: $9,250

Condo complex on Miami’s Fisher Island

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Fisher Island, a go-to for Russian oligarchs and ultrarich and famous American home buyers (hello, Oprah!), has a rental market too—albeit a small one. This island is dotted with low-rise condos with views of the water that can go for around $20,000 for four-bedroom units.

The ZIP code is home to the highest-earning folks in the nation, with annual incomes topping $2 million, according to Bloomberg News. Just off of Miami, it can be accessed only by boat (usually a yacht), ferry, or helicopter.

“Fisher Island is very private and exclusive, and it’s not really for a crowd looking to have excitement,” says Sepehr Niakan, a real estate broker with HB Roswell Realty. “These people get to have their privacy and amenities without the ruckus of South Beach.”

Despite clocking in at just about 200 acres (Central Park in Manhattan tops 800 acres), the island has 18 tennis courts and a golf course—which renters can access with a temporary membership for $150 per day. There isn’t much in the way of shopping. But who needs to shop when you can lie on a beach with sand imported from Bermuda that’s raked to perfection each day? And leave your car on the mainland: Folks here get around on golf carts.

“If you have a giant, 250-foot yacht, there are not many places you can dock it in South Florida,” Niakan says. “Fisher Island has a deep-water marina, which is a must-have for the international crowd.”

5. Tribeca (New York, NY)

ZIP code: 10007 Median two-bedroom rent: $8,195

Tribeca loft

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In the early 1900s, Tribeca was mostly textile factories and warehouses. Today, these spacious, airy buildings house some of Manhattan’s priciest lofts and trendiest boutiques. Actor Robert De Niro, who co-founded the world-famous Tribeca Film Festival, helped popularize the neighborhood decades ago. And today it’s home to A-listers such as Taylor Swift and Justin Timberlake, who can be seen hopping from bistro to bistro along the neighborhood’s cobblestone streets.

“The lofts here have very large floor plans,” says New York City–based real estate appraiser Jonathan Miller. And in space-starved Manhattan, “there is a premium for larger space.”

Sunny apartments in Tribeca’s low-rise buildings can easily exceed $10,000 a month. This two-bedroom loft with an enormous dressing room/walk-in closet, marble countertops, and electric blinds is priced at $12,500.

The rentals are becoming even more popular as luxury sales are slowing. Well-heeled buyers have more brand-new developments to choose from and are waiting to see what will happen with prices.

“In the past six months, we’ve begun seeing buyers camp out in the rental market, waiting until they’re comfortable to buy,” Miller says.

6. Park Shore (Naples, FL)

ZIP code: 34103 Median two-bedroom rent: $6,500

Park Shore in Naples, FL

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Oceanfront high-rises started popping up on Park Shore’s white-sand beaches in the ’60s, transforming it into a winter destination for affluent snowbirds. There’s plenty of seafood restaurants and other fine dining and upscale shopping options. But it’s the lack of new development that has kept prices high.

“There is an unbelievable amount of wealth in Naples. There is a private airstrip that can accompany any-sized private plane,” says broker Lenz. “More people are testing out the Naples market. They are renting out a two-bedroom, and checking out the area before they move from New York.”

And there are some amazing rentals to choose from. Take this two-bedroom ,1,600-square-foot beauty with ocean views going for $8,500 a month.

7. South Beach (San Francisco, CA)

ZIP code: 94105 Median two-bedroom rent: $6,499

Apartment building in San Francisco’s South Beach

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This former shipping and warehouse district along the San Francisco Bay is now filled with high-end stores, nightlife, and new luxury condo and rental apartment buildings with floor-to-ceiling windows. This walkable neighborhood has a mix of new development and historic homes built after the 1906 earthquake, which leveled much of this area.

“You are going to pay more for this location,” says Masti Pahlbod, a real estate adviser at Engel & Volkers San Francisco. The area is popular with highly paid professionals ranging from techies to lawyers. “It has new cafes, restaurants. … And it’s just a walk to the waterfront.”

Units with views of the bay and San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge are much sought-after. This 1,300-square-foot rental with a chef’s kitchen is going for $5,500 a month.

8. Pinnacle Peak (Scottsdale, AZ)

ZIP code: 85262 Median two-bedroom rent: $4,950

Pinnacle Peak rental for $7,500 a month

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In Pinnacle Peak, a 40-minute drive outside the heart of Scottsdale, rattlesnake and mountain lion sightings are common. Well-off renters come to swap the big-city life for the outdoors, playing 18 holes at Pinnacle Peak Country Club, a green golf course in the desert, or a spa visit at the Four Seasons Resort.

Renters can find five-bedroom houses in the gated community of Troon Verde for $7,500 a month. Those who want to save a few bucks can score a three-bedroom apartment for just under $3,200 at complexes with poolside cabanas and wet bars.

Having a car is a must in this sprawling neighborhood, which is dotted with large homes and in-ground pools. At the edge of Coconino National Forest, Pinnacle Peak attracts the more adventurous renter who wants to visit during the still-warm Arizona winter months and go backpacking or rock climbing.

9. West End (Washington, DC)

ZIP code: 20037 Median two-bedroom rent: $4,339

Apartment building in DC’s West End

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Many of the historic, Victorian-style row homes that the nation’s capital is known for have all but disappeared from the West End. These days cranes are busy putting up new office buildings and low-rise, luxury apartments and condominiums throughout the neighborhood to meet the demand of buyers and renters.

One of the newer developments, the 10-story Westlight, features street-level retail with about 70 apartments on the upper levels. Units start at around $3,000 and go over $12,000 a month.

“We absolutely have a lot of high-earning professionals renting there,” says local real estate broker Julie Brodie of Engel & Volkers Tysons and Landsdowne. There are also a lot of retirees who “want less square footage and [to] be near the city life.”

This area also includes Foggy Bottom, a posh DC neighborhood that is home to the Washington National Opera and National Symphony Orchestra and plenty of George Washington University off-campus housing. The ZIP code is also home to a complex called the Watergate Hotel. Maybe you’ve heard of it?

10. Capitol Hill (Salt Lake City, UT)

ZIP code: 84103 Median two-bedroom rent: $3,813

10,000-square-foot mansion for rent in Salt Lake City’s Capitol Hill neighborhood

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Loads of software engineers are moving from high-priced tech hubs like Silicon Valley and Seattle to work in smaller, more affordable Salt Lake City. And the lower prices means they can splurge on a swanky pad in the quieter, primarily residential, old-money neighborhood of Capital Hill.

“A lot of younger professionals are moving here and making decent money, but they are renting because they don’t know yet if they’ll be here long-term,” says Trey Leonard, a global real estate adviser at Engel & Volkers Park City.

That’s created a boom for upscale neighborhoods near the city center like Capital Hill and Greater Avenues. This area is squeezed between downtown and the Wasatch Mountains north of town. There are some large two-bedrooms units in recently built luxury condo buildings with pools and rooftop lounges that rent for around $3,500.

“Many of these homes have simply amazing views of the city skyline and the mountains,” Leonard says.

Allison Underhill contributed to this report.

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Washington Welcomes the Wealthiest

By Robert Frank, NY Times, May 12, 2017

Wealth in Washington is being redefined, as the region’s modest millionaires give rise to a new class of superrich.

For years, Washington and its surrounding suburbs have been among the most affluent in the country. The four highest-earning counties in the United States, as measured by median incomes, are all near D.C., according to the Census Bureau. The top three are in Virginia--Loudon County, followed by Falls Church City (an independent city treated by the Census Bureau as a county) and Fairfax County--and No. 4 is Howard County, Md.

The region also has plenty of millionaires. Maryland, Virginia and Washington are all in the top 10 for millionaires per capita, according to Phoenix Marketing.

But there has always been a sharp distinction in D.C. culture between being wealthy and being rich. Let New York and Los Angeles have the mansion-owning, Ferrari-driving, yacht-loving billionaires. The Washington elite were content with a three-bedroom colonial, two incomes and top private schools. Its handful of billionaires were mostly local sports team owners little known outside the capital.

Yet now, the combination of the richest White House in history and a boom in government-related businesses and technology companies is transforming Washington’s affluence into opulence. There are 34 billionaires within a 25-mile radius of Washington, according to Wealth-X, an information services company that specializes in identifying the tribal patterns of the superrich; that figure is up slightly from last year. And there are 2,049 D.C.-area residents worth $30 million or more.

Prices and sales of multimillion-dollar mansions are surging. Flashy luxury brands more commonly associated with Madison Avenue and Rodeo Drive are doing brisk business near the Capitol. Celebrity chefs are opening up elaborate restaurants and charging very un-Washington prices (think $280 tasting menus).

Along with the region’s traditional Priuses and Mercedes S.U.V.s, six-figure sports cars like Aston Martins and McLarens are now selling well.

“The wealth here is exploding,” said William Shawn, a longtime Washington lawyer who, as a side venture, recently opened a dealership selling Aston Martins and Bentleys. “I’m still amazed at the amount of money that people have coming into the showroom.”

The most obvious signs are in real estate. The average price of a property costing $1 million or more rose by 33 percent in the first quarter, according to Redfin. That increase is among the largest in the country.

Part of it was driven by the billionaires and millionaires in the Trump administration. Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary and a former hedge fund manager, paid $12.6 million in February for an estate in Massachusetts Avenue Heights. Wilbur Ross, the billionaire commerce secretary, paid $10.75 million in January for a Beaux-Arts mansion in the same neighborhood.

Rex W. Tillerson, the secretary of state and former Exxon Mobil chief executive, paid $5.6 million for a colonial in the Kalorama neighborhood, where Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are renting a six-bedroom home for $15,000 a month.

The record smasher for real estate in Washington, however, isn’t linked to the Trump administration. Jeff Bezos, the chief of Amazon and owner of The Washington Post, paid $23 million for the former Textile Museum in Kalorama and plans to convert the 27,000 square feet, spread across two buildings, into a single-family home.

Brokers say that record may not last long.

“I think we’re just seeing a whole new level of client in the city,” said Mark Lowham, a real estate agent with Sotheby’s International Realty in Washington.

He has an eight-bedroom home listed for $22 million on Chain Bridge Road in the city’s northwest. He also has a penthouse condominium at the Ritz-Carlton in Georgetown listed for $9.95 million.

While those are far from New York prices, they are a quantum leap for Washington. Mr. Lowham said he recently sold a $7.5 million condo on Water Street, which runs along the Potomac River.

The buyers aren’t just locals. Increasingly, the superrich from around the world are discovering the benefits of owning a home in Washington. Aside from being a bargain compared with New York or London, it gives business owners and power players access to the seat of government.

“These people already have a home in London and Hong Kong and New York, and they realize that if they add Washington to their portfolio, they can entertain there and advance their cause,” Mr. Lowham said.

European luxury brands have also found it lucrative to have homes in the area. Hermès opened a 6,000-square-foot boutique in CityCenterDC in 2015, celebrating with a blowout dinner that featured foie gras feuilleté and waiters wearing giant white hats that looked like clouds.

At a time when many malls are struggling, Tysons Galleria, in McLean, Va., which has tenants like Bottega Veneta, Chanel, Louis Vuitton and Prada, is reporting growing sales. Instead of a food court, the mall has brought in Mike Isabella, a chef and restaurateur, to build a 41,000-square-foot dining complex with eight eateries, including a raw bar and a tapas restaurant.

The food scene in Washington is also growing more lavish. One of the top restaurants in town is Pineapple and Pearls, whose 11-course tasting menu (with drink pairings) goes for $280 a person--to be paid in advance. Several other restaurants in town, such as Métier and Komi, are offering tasting menus for $200 or more.

The new administration may be contributing to Washington’s affluence, but big money is also coming from start-ups and newcomers from out of town. A 25-year-old recently walked into Mr. Shawn’s car dealership and paid $340,000 in cash for an Aston Martin Vanquish. The customer said he had recently sold a tech company he founded for tens of millions of dollars.

“The government may have got a lot of this started,” Mr. Shawn said, “but with cybersecurity now, you’ve got a lot of these smart guys forming their own tech or telecom companies and doing well.”

While his dealership still lags those in Los Angeles; Greenwich, Conn.; and Palm Beach, Fla., when it comes to sales, Mr. Shawn said, “We’re closing in fast.”

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