Behold the most expensive home sold on the Massachusetts mainland last year

The 4.5 acre property includes a "tea house" about the size of the average American home, a private beach and a deep-water dock -- which is no small matter in a town where the wait for a mooring permit is about a decade. The main home includes about eight bedrooms, depending on how you count, two kitchens, a conservatory and an indoor waterfall, according to a write-up in the Gloucester Daily News.

The buyers, Mark and Becky Levin, are part of the new Boston elite: He's the former chief executive of a Millennium Pharmaceuticals; she runs Levin and Co., an executive search firm that works with biotech companies.