Record US residential sale breaks $100 million mark Heiress sells 40-acre "building lot" in New York's Hamptons to financial mogul The cloud over the current residential real estate market has a silver lining. The upper-tier market continues to boom, as evidenced by the record-breaking sale of a residential property in East Hampton (NY) for $103 million. The new sale was supposed to be hush-hush. But, the news was quickly out that Schlumberger Oil fortune heiress Adelaide de Menil and her husband Ted Carpenter had sold the ocean front property to Ron (0 comments)