A billionaire and an A-list actor found refuge in a 37-home Florida neighborhood with armed guards—proof that privacy is now the ultimate luxury

A quaint, 37-home neighborhood an hour from Miami is attracting moneyed residents, including actor Mark Wahlberg, despite not having a private golf club or coastline. Instead, its major selling point is privacy and a well-trained security staff of former military and police.

Stone Creek Ranch, located in Delray Beach, Fla., is one of the hottest new neighborhoods for the ultra-rich, but it didn’t always start out that way. The development was created in the early 2000s a stone’s throw away from the marshy land of the Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge.

Senada Adžem, the executive director of luxury sales at Douglas Elliman, said before she started selling homes in the development, prices averaged around $6 million.

Adžem broke the mold when she put a house up for sale in the neighborhood for $20 million in 2018. It took her two years to sell it for the first........

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