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Unique Features·Smart Home Tech

Smart Home Features Luxury Home Buyers Expect in 2026

Buyers touring luxury homes no longer look for gadgets. They look for a house that runs quietly: reliable Wi-Fi, lighting scenes, motorized shades, easy entry, and sound, all working as one calm system.

Stone-and-shingle estate at dusk on the night of the first hard freeze, every window lit warm, frost on the lawn and clipped boxwood, bare autumn maples behind
Unique Features·Estate Care

Pre-Winter Systems Check for Luxury Homes

Before the first hard freeze, a luxury home needs a proper systems check: heating, filtration, moisture, leak detection and backup power, so it performs in winter as well as it looks in fall.

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Unique Features·Security & Privacy

Security as a Luxury Home Amenity: Privacy, Cameras and Backup Power

Buyers now treat privacy and protection as part of how a luxury home works, starting with screening and a discreet arrival and running through cameras, access control and backup power.

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Wine Cellars

Glass display rooms, subterranean tasting vaults and the conditioning, racking and lighting a serious collection needs.

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Home Theaters

Private cinemas from the discreet media room to the fully treated theatre — acoustics, projection, seating and control.

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Stone bathroom with a freestanding tub beneath a picture window

Wellness Spaces

The wellness floor buyers now pay a premium for — spa suites, cold plunge and sauna, lap pools and serious home gyms.

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Open-plan loft with concrete columns and layered textiles

Smart-Home Tech

The control, lighting, audio and monitoring systems that run a large house — specified by the integrators who install them.

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Rare Amenities

Car galleries, indoor pools, panic rooms and the amenities that appear in a handful of houses per market.

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Private wellness suite with a glass-fronted hemlock sauna beside a stone cold-plunge tub on a heated limestone floor
Unique Features·Wellness Spaces

The Private Wellness Retreat: Transforming an Underused Room Before Winter

A well-designed wellness room turns a good intention into a daily habit. Here's how to convert an underused room into a private retreat for movement, recovery and rest.

Panelled lounge with a low travertine table and curved sofa
Unique Features·Wine Cellars

9 Wine Cellar Design Ideas Only Found in Serious Homes

From glass-walled cabinets in the living room to underground tasting vaults, these are the cellar ideas our features editor is specifying this year.