The Town of Palm Beach is a 16-mile barrier island whose residential tradition — Mediterranean Revival, Bermuda, Regency, and the occasional restrained contemporary — has been curated for nearly a century by ARCOM, the town's Architectural Review Commission. Building here means working inside a tight envelope of massing rules, setback restrictions, height limits, material expectations, and historic-district overlays covering much of Midtown, the South End's El Brillo corridor, and the exclusive North End. Lakefront and oceanfront parcels on Billionaire's Row routinely transact above $60M; Intracoastal-frontage estates in the Estate Section and South End set the national benchmark for private residential assets.