11.   - Mark Sands admitted Monday that preserving the environment was just a rationalization for the string of fires he set to destroy luxury homes under construction.

12.   A prosecutor said Sands described how he burned down a luxury home under construction behind his home, then went back and burned it down again.

13.   Bucher has five luxury homes on the market, including two lake-front properties and a ranch in Giddings.

14.   Could the arsonist who has torched as many as nine luxury homes against the Phoenix Mountains Preserve in the past three years actually be an eco-terrorist?

15.   Developing luxury homes makes economic sense, Ahluwalia said.

16.   Even sales of luxury homes are starting to show some life.

17.   Evidence of the riches trafficking has brought can be seen in Belvil, a sprawling gated community of luxury homes that has boomed conspicuously in an otherwise desperate economy.

18.   First there will be a golf course, luxury homes and a private cemetary.

19.   For example, Toll Brothers Inc., a builder of luxury homes, this week reported record third quarter earnings.

20.   He lived with his ailing wife, Geraldine, at Fox Hill Village, a luxury retirement home on the Westwood-Dedham line.