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tycoon pays $76.73M for historical Palm Beach mansion on ocean

Recycling tycoon Anthony Lomangino and wife Lynda buy a seaside mansion designed by Addison Mizner at 260 N. Ocean Blvd. The sellers were Harvey and Mary Ann Kinzelberg.

Darrell Hofheinz

Palm Beach Daily News

Updated Feb 2, 2026, 2:30 p m ET

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Garbage-and-recycling tycoon Anthony Lomangino and wife have paid $76.73 million for a landmarked oceanfront mansion at 260 N. Ocean Blvd.

The sellers in the private deal were businessman Harvey Kinzelberg and his wife, Mary Ann.

Known as Villa Flora, the house was designed in 1923 by noted society architect Addison Mizner.

In all, the house and guesthouse have a combined 13,281 square feet of living space, inside and out.

The buyers have their oceanfront house across town listed at $59.5 million.

An iconic Palm Beach mansion from the Roaring ’20s has changed hands on the oceanfront for a recorded $76.73 million in Palm Beach.

Garbage-and-recycling tycoon Anthony Lomangino and his wife, Lynda, bought the landmarked mansion at 260 N. Ocean Blvd. in an off-market deal. The Lomanginos, who own another house in Palm Beach, acted as

trustees of revocable trusts in their names, the deed recorded Feb. 2 shows.

Businessman Harvey Kinzelberg and his wife, Mary Ann, sold the house, which was designed by noted architect Addison Mizner and is known as Villa Flora.

The Palm Beach Daily News and the Palm Beach Post are the first media outlets to report the sale.

Harvey Kinzelberg used a limited liability company to buy the North End mansion for a recorded $9.58 million in 2001, property records show.

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The Venetian Gothic-style house and its separate cabana-andgarage building stand on slightly more than 2 acres at the southwest corner of North Ocean Boulevard and Dunbar Road. Originally addressed as 110 Dunbar Road, the estate includes a beach parcel with about 200 feet of shoreline on the opposite side of North Ocean Boulevard.

The eight-bedroom estate is a little less than a mile north of The Breakers golf course.

In all, the house and guesthouse have a combined 13,281 square feet of living space, inside and out.

The main residence is roughly U-shaped, with two wings projecting toward the west to create a landscaped courtyard. With multiple garage bays, the

outbuilding faces the house at the rear of the property. The building doubles as a cabana for the pool on the northwest side of the backyard.

Mizner designed and built the house in 1923 for millionaire banker and stockbroker Edward Shearson in 1923. The residence was named after Shearson's wife, Flora Josephine Shearson.

Considered one of Mizer’s most important residential designs, the house was among the first to be granted landmark protection from the town. The designation was granted in April 1980 and protects the exterior walls from significant alteration without the permission of the Landmarks Preservation Commission.

Broker Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate confirmed he handled both sides of the sale but declined to discuss any other aspect of the transaction. His clients could not immediately be reached for comment.

Anthony Lomangino co-founded and served as chairman of Southern Waste Systems/Sun Recycling LLC. In 2016, Florida-based Waste Management Inc. acquired operations and assets of 12 of the company's facilities in Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties, according to published reports. Lomangino's resume also shows he co-founded and has served as chair of LGL Recycling LLC.

With ties to Chicago, Harvey Kinselberg’s professional resume includes founding and serving as president and CEO of Sequel Capital Corp. to offer capital-equipment leasing including computers and finance services. Today, the firm handles private-equity investments and leases high-tech equipment and other assets, including

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railcars, locomotives, printing equipment, ships and shipping-related equipment.

Harvey Kinselberg bought Villa Flora 24 years ago through Illinoisbased Sequel Capital LLC but later transferred ownership to a trust for which he and his wife serve as trustees. They had the property homesteaded as their primary residence in the latest Palm Beach County tax rolls.

The deed lists the Kinzelbergs with a mailing address at a high-rise apartment building in downtown West Palm Beach.

Harvey Kinzelberg is a former member of Palm Beach’s Shore Protection Board.

When Villa Flora was built, the Palm Beach Post described it as the “envy and despair” of all the homeowners’ friends. The design features Byzantine-influenced doors and Venetian-arched windows.

In a 2019 article for New York Social Diary, Palm Beach architectural historian Augustus Mayhew described the exterior’s famous “Wall of the Winds” frescos, which date to the house’s construction and remain intact today. The courtyard also featured Zodiac-theme frescoes depicting the 12 astrological signs along with the sun, moon and Earth.

On the east-facing facade, the frescos were painted by internationally known decorative artist Gardner Hale. The artist traveled to Venice in the summer of 1923 to research “works that would be reproduced at Villa Flora,” Mayhew wrote.

“The Wall of the Winds consists of eight heads appearing to blow winds depicted as lines of gold amidst clouds in a cobalt sky,” he added.

The frescoes also include images of Venetian ships.

In June 2025, a company affiliated with Anthony Lomangino sold, for a recorded $38.75 million, an oceanfront mansion he developed on speculation at 1742 S. Ocean Blvd. in Palm Beach, property records show. A trust was on the buyer's side of that sale and was represented by Suzanne Frisbie of the Corcoran Group, who negotiated opposite Angle as the listing broker.

The Lomanginos have owned an oceanfront house at 1620 S. Ocean Blvd. in Palm Beach's Estate Section since 2019, when it changed hands for about $12.65 million. Angle has that five bedroom house listed for $59.5 million.

In late April 2025, President Donald Trump posted on his social-media platform TruthSocial that he was nominating Anthony Lomangino to serve on the board of governors of the U.S. Postal Service. Such nominations must be confirmed by the U.S. Senate, and the Postal Service's website does not list Lomangino — a major Trump donor — as a member of its board.

Born in 1872 in Benicia, California, Mizner traveled extensively in Central America and Europe. He landed in 1918 in Palm Beach, where he designed for friend Paris Singer the Italian-and Spanish-style building that would become The Everglades Club on Worth Avenue. Residential and other commissions, many with architecture in a Mediterranean style, followed in

rapid succession, and eventually his work could be seen not just on the island but also in Boca Raton and other parts of Palm Beach County.

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Darrell Hofheinz is a USA TODAY Network of Florida journalist who writes about Palm Beach real estate in his weekly “Beyond the Hedges” column. He welcomes tips about real estate news on the island. Emaildhofheinz@pbdailynews.com, call 561-820-3831 or tweet @PBDN_Hofheinz. Support our journalism. Subscribe today.

Coffee mogul's estate fetches

$66.14M on Palm Beach's

lakefront:

MLS

Coffee tycoon Robert Stiller and his wife, Christine, extensively updated their lakefront house at 1350 N. Lake Way.

Darrell Hofheinz

Palm Beach Daily News

Updated Dec. 30, 2025, 7:39 a.m. ET

Key Points

A company linked to Robert and Christine Stiller has sold, for $66.14 million, their estate at 1350 N. Lake Way in Palm Beach.

The Stillers' ownership company paid a recorded $66 million for the house in 2023, property records show.

The latest sale price was first reported in the multiple listing service on Dec. 29. The buyer was not immediately identified in public records.

The seven-bedroom house has 17,000 total square feet. It stands on a lot of eight-tenths of an acre with about 150 feet of frontage on the Intracoastal Waterway.

The layout includes a library, a formal dining room with a butler’s panty and a lakeside family room. In addition to the family kitchen, there's a fully equipped professional chef’s kitchen.

Coffee tycoon Robert “Bob” Stiller and his wife, Christine, have sold their renovated lakefront mansion in Palm Beach for $66.14 million — a little more than they they paid for it in 2023, according to a just-closed sales listing in the multiple listing service.

The sold price of the estate at 1350 N. Lake Way was reported in the MLS Dec. 29, but because no deed for the sale was immediately recorded, the buyer's identity wasn't yet in public records. It was also unclear whether the price reported in the MLS would match the one expected to be recorded at the Palm Beach County Courthouse.

In April 2023, a limited liability company linked to the Stillers paid a recorded $66 million for the estate, property records show. The Stillers then carried out a major remodeling project, according to building records.

The seller in the 2023 deal was a company controlled by casino-and-resort mogul Steve Wynn.

The sale price just reported in the MLS is substantially less than the $90 million asking price the property carried when it entered the market in mid-May. By the end of June, the price had dropped to $80 million and it had held steady since.

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Built in 2013, the seven-bedroom house faces about 150 feet of lake frontage and has a deep-water dock. The lot measures eight-tenths of an acre and is nine streets south of the inlet at the north tip of the island.

In all, the house has about 17,000 square feet of living space, inside and out, according to the sales listing.

The Stillers’ company bought the house shortly after the couple sold their oceanfront mansion at 589 N. County Road for around $170 million — a deal that still holds the record as the most-expensive residential property ever sold in a single transaction in Palm Beach, the Palm Beach Daily News has confirmed.

Broker Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate represented both sides of the sale on North Lake Way, the MLS shows. He and the Stillers could not immediately be reached for comment.

Robert Stiller co-founded and is the former CEO of the Keurig Green Mountain coffee empire. The company today is known as Keurig Dr Pepper Inc.

The Stillers’ ownership company — 1350 North Lake Acquisitions LLC — bought the two-story, Bermuda-style house after Wynn and his wife, Andrea Hissom Wynn, had remodeled it for resale. A Wynn-controlled company had paid $49 million for it in April 2021 as an investment property.

Angle’s sales listing described the “pristine” estate as a “rarely available” property on the Intracoastal Waterway.

“This rare and luxurious home boasts breathtaking lake and sunset views from all principal rooms,” the listing said.

Among the home’s features are stone and hardwood flooring, high ceilings and rooms filled with natural light, the listing said. The layout features two primary bedroom suites — one on the first floor and one on the upper

level. The formal living room has a fireplace and French doors opening to a covered loggia, one of two that overlook the lakeside pool.

The listing also mentioned a library, a formal dining room with a butler’s pantry and a family room open to the breakfast area and kitchen. The layout also includes a fully equipped “professional chef’s kitchen.”

Wittmann Building Corp. of West Palm Beach was the contractor for the Stillers’ renovations, according to courthouse records. Contractor Paul Wittmann previously declined to comment about the project.

In the Stillers' 2023 sale on North County Road, Angle represented the buyers — car-dealership magnate Michael Cantanucci and his wife, Kimberly — while broker Lawrence Moens of Lawrence A. Moens Associates negotiated for the sellers.

Moens handled both sides of the 2023 sale on North Lake Way.

The house the Stillers' company just sold was built by Palm Beach real estate developer and investor Patrick Carney and his wife, Lillian, who used it as a custom home for themselves.

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Portions of this story appeared previously in the Palm Beach Daily News.

Darrell Hofheinz is a USA TODAY Network of Florida journalist who writes about Palm Beach real estate in his weekly “Beyond the Hedges”

UPDATE: Palm

Beach sale of 2 seaside lots could approach $200M, Wall Street Journal says

Cosmetics billionaire William P. Lauder razed Palm Beach houses on both sideby-side oceanfront lots on North Ocean Boulevard over the past several years.

Darrell Hofheinz

Palm Beach Daily News

Feb. 6, 2025 Updated Feb. 8, 2025, 8:47 a.m. ET

(This story has been updated to accurately reflect that most current information.)

Palm Beach could see a new residential price record set by a sale that might approach $200 million for a pair of adjacent vacant lots fronting the ocean, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.

Estée Lauder cosmetics billionaire William P. Lauder is on the seller’s side of the two side-by-side lots in the 1000 block of North Ocean Boulevard, the Palm Beach Daily News has been told by people familiar with the properties.

The Daily News has not confirmed the sale price or the identity of the buyer.

No deed had been recorded as of Feb. 7 showing that either of the lots had changed hands.

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The North End properties measure 2.26 acres with about 360 feet of direct shoreline, property records show.

The lots were last priced in the multiple listing service at $88.9 million each, which works out to $177.8 million for both.

If the sale were to close at above $170 million, it would likely break a saleprice record that has stood in Palm Beach since 2023. And if it were to close at more than $173 million, it would set a new Florida record for a residential sale.

The Wall Street Journal reported Feb. 6 that Lauder had “struck a deal” to sell the lots.

In 2022, Lauder demolished a six-year-old beachfront mansion on the northernmost lot at 1071 N. Ocean Blvd., as previously reported by the Palm Beach Daily News. He had purchased that lot through an ownership company in late 2021 for more than $110 million, the price cited by several people familiar with the private sale. No deed was ever recorded for the 2022 sale because of the way the transaction was structured.

Lauder later paired the cleared land with the empty oceanside lot — owned by another of his companies — next door at 1063 N. Ocean Blvd. and listed the properties for a combined $200 million in early March 2023. At the

time it was the most expensive vacant residential land ever listed for sale in Palm Beach through the MLS.

Lauder later adopted a different marketing strategy for the two lots by offering them separately.

But the listings were withdrawn from the MLS on Feb. 4, records show.

Lauder had paid a recorded $25 million for a house at No. 1063 in 2020 and razed it as well.

Lauder's family has deep roots in Palm Beach. He is the former executive chairman of The Estée Lauder Cos., the cosmetics empire named for his grandmother. He remainins chairman of the company's board of director.

With a net worth is estimated at $1.3 billion by Forbes.com, Lauder is one of at least 65 billionaires who own property in Palm Beach or have other strong residential ties to the town, according to a Palm Beach Daily News analysis of Forbes data.

Lauder’s father, Leonard Lauder, has a home in Palm Beach and headed the cosmetics company for 17 years.

The previous state residential-sale record of $173 million was set in 2022 when software billionaire Larry Ellison of Oracle Corp. bought an estate and part of a nearby island in Manalapan, the wealthy town south of Palm Beach. In all, about 22 acres transferred in that deal.

Palm Beach's residential price record was set in 2023 when an oceanfront estate at 589 N. County Road changed hands in a private deal said to have hit $170 million. Because of the way that transaction was structured, the

price for the sale of the North County Road estate was never recorded at the Palm Beach County courthouse.

Lauder has been involved in other real estate transactions on the North End. In 2023, he used a limited liability company to pay a recorded $155 million for the estate of the late conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, down the street from the two vacant lots. Lauder bought the former Limbaugh estate through a limited liability company and then cleared the bulk of the land.

The price Lauder paid for the old Limbaugh property, meanwhile, briefly set a new Palm Beach residential sale-price record.

A media representative for Lauder through theEstée Lauder Cos. could not be reached for comment.

Broker Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate in Palm Beach had last held the listings for the lots. Angle declined to comment for this story.

But when he listed the properties separately, Angle told the Palm Beach Daily News that sizable oceanfront lots are rare in Palm Beach and therefore command premium prices. “These are phenomenal and scarce oceanfront properties in Palm Beach,” Angle said at the time, adding that the land presented “a really rare opportunity” to buyers.

Angle’s sales listing described the lots’ “fantastic and peaceful North End location” as a place to “build your dream Palm Beach estate.”

The Palm Beach Daily News confirmed that broker Ryan Serhant handled the buyer's side of the sale through his agency, Serhant. The broker achieved media fame when he starred in the popular reality television show “Million Dollar Listing: New York.”

Ryan Serhant did not respond to a request for comment.

Ellison’s record-setting sale closed in June 2022 when he bought his estate at 2000 S. Ocean Blvd. on the far south end of Manalapan. Broker Lawrence Moens of Lawrence A. Moens Associates represented Ellison’s ownership entity and a trust controlled by Netscape billionaire Jim Clark.

The 2023 sales record for Palm Beach was set when 589 N. County Road, car dealer Michael Cantanucci and his wife, Kimberly, bought their oceanfront estate from coffee tycoon Robert Stiller and his wife, Christine, in April 2023. Broker Moens represented the Stillers in the sale of the 20,000-square-foot mansion and its 1.6 acres, while Angle acted on behalf of the Cantanuccis, the Palm Beach Daily News confirmed.

This is a developing story. Check back for any updates.

Darrell Hofheinz is a USA TODAY Network of Florida journalist who writes about Palm Beach real estate in his weekly “Beyond the Hedges” column. He welcomes tips about real estate news on the island. Email dhofheinz@pbdailynews.com, call 561-820-3831 or tweet @PBDN_Hofheinz. Help support our journalism. Subscribe today.

McGuirk was a longtime executive with Turner’s Turner Broadcasting, and stayed on as chairman of the Braves when Turner sold the team to billionaire John Malone’s Liberty Media in 2007, according to published reports. In November, Malone bolstered McGuirk’s power within the team, granting him new voting rights as well as right of ﬁrst refusal on potential future team stock sales by Malone, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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Nancy McGuirk is an author and founder of the Women’s Community Bible Study of Atlanta, according to her bio.

Ameringer is an art gallerist and Byrne is an interior designer. The couple bought the condo for $2.9 million in 2020, property records show. The unit spans nearly 2,200 square feet, with two bedrooms, two bathrooms and one half-bathroom. Ameringer and Byrne renovated the penthouse, which was built in 1965, records show.

They listed it for $8 million in January of last year, according to Realtor.com.

McGuirk joins other Major League Baseball bosses with tropical homes in Palm Beach County. Billionaire Mets owner Steve Cohen bought a waterfront mansion in Delray Beach for $21.6 million in 2021. In 2013, a trust linked to billionaire San Francisco Giants owner Charles Johnson bought a lakefront mansion in Palm Beach for $42 million, records show. The trust bought another Palm Beach home for $21.8 million in 2021.

A 40-Year-Old Investor Collects Luxury Homes. His Latest Addition: a $148 Million Palm Beach Estate

Daren Metropoulos, who bought the former Playboy Mansion in 2016, paid cash for a 10-bedroom, roughly 23,000-square-foot Mediterranean Revival-style home

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The owner of Los Angeles’ former Playboy Mansion has paid $148 million for a new play space: an oceanfront estate in Palm Beach, Fla.

Forty-year-old investor Daren Metropoulos paid all cash in an oﬀ-market deal for the home, which was designed around 1919 by noted architect Addison Mizner, a spokesperson for Metropoulos said.The seller of the roughly 3.2-acre property was the family of the late Canadian businessman William Pencer, who died in 2021, records show.

In a statement, Metropoulos said the property is one of Palm Beach’s “most storied architectural treasures.”

“I am pleased to carry on the tradition of conserving this gem as a true sanctuary and ensuring its classic charm and sophistication continues to endure,” he said.

The Pencer family couldn’t immediately be reached for comment. William and his wife, Ida Pencer, purchased the home for $12.1 million in 2003, property records show.

Known as Casa Amado, the roughly 23,000-square-foot, Mediterranean Revival-style house has 10 bedrooms, a gym and a movie room, according to Metropoulos’ spokesperson. Outside,

Daren Metropoulos is co-owner of the bottledwater company BlueTriton Brands PHOTO: DAREN METROPOULOS

the property has about 225 feet of ocean frontage with a beach cabana, pool, pool cabana and tennis court.

The house was built for Charles A. Munn, an entrepreneur and prominent member of Palm Beach society, in a similar style to his brother’s house next door, which was also designed by Mizner, according to the 2020 book “An Illustrated History of Palm Beach.”

The Pencers spent years renovating the property, but in 2007 the house was damaged by ﬁre after being struck by lightning, according to court documents related to a subsequent insurance claim. Around 2008, the Pencers restored the property again.

Jim McCann of Premier Estate Properties represented the seller. Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate represented the buyer.

Metropoulos is a principal at private-equity ﬁrm Metropoulos & Co. Started by his father, C. Dean Metropoulos, the ﬁrm has invested in brands including Hostess, Pabst Brewing and Utz. The younger Metropoulos is a co-owner of BlueTriton Brands, a bottled-water company based in Stamford, Conn.

He is also an avid collector of luxury homes in NewYork City, Miami Beach, Hawaii and Martha’s Vineyard. In 2016, he bought the Playboy Mansion for $100 million, a then-record sum for L.A. In 2018, Metropoulos was a producer on QuentinTarantino’s “Once Upon aTime in Hollywood,” for which several scenes were shot at the mansion. He has since renovated the property extensively.

With extremely limited inventory, Palm Beach real-estate values have skyrocketed over the past few years. Recent big-ticket home sales include Australian businessman Michael Dorrell’s purchase of Tarpon Island, a roughly 2.3-acre private island, for $150 million in May.

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The Palm Beach sales record was set last year, when car dealership owner Michael Cantanucci and his wife, Kimberly Cantanucci, paid $170 million for a nearly 1.6-acre estate on North County Road.

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Which landmarked house just sold for $17.5 million in Palm Beach's Estate Section?

The 1930s-era house on El Bravo Way is about a mile-and-a-half south of Mar-aLago. The house was the longtime home of Ann Summers and her late husband, Peter. A trust was on the buyer's side.

Darrell Hofheinz

Palm Beach Daily News

May 14, 2025 Updated May 19, 2025, 11:10 a m ET

Key Points

The Monterey-style house at 215 El Bravo Way has six bedrooms and 7,366 square feet of living space, inside and out. It stands on a lot measuring two-fifth of an acre, property records show.

Along with neighboring El Vedado Road and El Brillo Way, El Bravo Way is known for its historic homes and proximity to shopping and dining options in Midtown Palm Beach.

The two-story house has windows and glass doors that look across Island Road to the Everglades Club’s golf course.

The landmarked family home of the late investments adviser and businessman Peter Summers and his widow, real estate agent Ann Summers, has sold in Palm Beach for $17.5 million, the price recorded with the deed.

The 1930s-era house at 215 El Bravo Way stands on one of the so-called “El Streets,” which are considered prime real estate in the Estate Section,

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the historic neighborhood that is also home to President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club.

Along with neighboring El Vedado Road and El Brillo Way, the streets are renowned for their history, handsome architecture and proximity to shopping and dining options in Midtown.

A trust named after the property’s address was on the buyer’s side of the sale, the deed recorded May 14 shows. The document lists West Palm Beach real estate attorney Maura Ziska as trustee of the 215 El Bravo Trust. Ziska declined to comment about the sale, and because of rules governing trusts, no other information about the buyer was immediately available in pubic records.

The two-story house is the second one west of North County Road with windows and glass doors that look across Island Road to the Everglades Club’s golf course. The property is about 1½ miles south of Mar-a-Lago.

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The Monterey-style house has six bedrooms and 7,366 square feet of living space, inside and out. It stands on a lot measuring two-fifths of an acre, property records show.

The house was designed in 1934 by society architect Howard Major, who drew up plans for a number of Palm Beach houses in the Monterey style. The focal point of the main façade is a second-story cantilevered balcony with an ornamental metal railing.

Among its distinctions, the residence was owned in the 1930s by silent film star Norma Talmadge and her husband, comedian George Jessel, according to a 2020 report prepared for the Landmarks Preservation Commission. The house earned landmark status in March 2020.

Peter Summers paid a recorded $2.2 million for the house in 1993, courthouse records show. After his death at age 81 in 2024, ownership passed to his widow and two children from his first marriage — Bliss Elizabeth Summers and George Ellis Summers Jr. The just-recorded deed lists all three as the sellers of the house.

“We were there for some 30-odd years,” Ann Summers told the Palm Beach Daily News. “It's a lovely house on an 'El' Street. I lived on El Brillo (many years ago) and then on El Bravo — they are the best streets in town.”

Peter Summers was an avid outdoorsman who once worked as an African safari guide. His career expanded to include financial services, real estate development and the cattle industry, according to his obituary. He began his corporate career with E.F. Hutton and Co. in 1971 and retired in 1999 from Alex. Brown. He also worked in real estate development in Florida and as a commercial cattleman in the Sunshine State and Virginia.

Ann Summers sells real estate as an agent with Brown Harris Stevens’ Palm Beach office. She and Peter Summers were married when he bought the house on El Bravo Way.

Summers is downsizing to a Palm Beach lakeview apartment in a Midtown co-operative building at 369 S. Lake Trail, she said. She bought that two-

bedroom penthouse with for about $4 million in January, property records show.

Broker Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate handled both sides of the just-recorded sale on El Bravo Way. He listed the property at the tail end of August 2024 at $23.95 million, a price that had dropped to $19.95 million by the middle of January, records in the multiple listing service shows.

Angle could not immediately be reached for comment.

The sales listing described the property as offering “serene outdoor living” with tropical landscaping and a covered poolside loggia accessed from the house through French doors.

“The garden is absolutely beautiful,” Ann Summers said.

She added: “The garden comes alive at nighttime,” thanks to landscape lighting and the light from the pool.

Among the property’s other notable features, the listing said, are a cabana room with a bar and an oversize family room with a fireplace and woodbeamed ceilings. The layout also includes a living room with a fireplace as well as a formal dining room.

The house’s landmark designation protects exterior walls viewable from the street from significant changes without the permission of the Landmarks Preservation Commission. The Summerses supported the effort to designate the house a landmark, town records show.

The Monterey style is a fusion of architectural revival styles, including Spanish Colonial, British Colonial and French Creole. It originated in California and was especially popular in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s, according to architectural historians.

“This is a really lovely house that will be a great addition to the town's landmark list," former landmarks board Chairman Ted Cooney said when the house was landmarked five years ago. “Major was a master of the Monterey style ... having [a Major design] preserved in such an important neighborhood makes a lot of sense to me.”

A second-story addition and the pool cabana were added to the rear of the house in 1992, according to the landmarks report. But apart from that, changes over the years were minimal, according to the report.

The house was originally part of El Bravo Park, a 27-acre, ocean-to-lake property bought by engineer Frank Clements, a winter resident and engineer who intended to create his own estate.

But Clements, responding to demand for villa sites, divided the property into 36 lots and two streets — El Bravo Way and El Brillo Way. In 1921, first-generation Palm Beach architects Addison Mizner and Marion Sims Wyeth were the first two architects to design villas in El Bravo Park, according to the landmarks report.

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Is

rocker Jon Bon Jovi linked to a house purchase near his seaside mansion

in Palm Beach?

Paperwork suggests the $9.25-million purchase of a home at 244 Orange Grove Road near Jon Bon Jovi's oceanfront estate may be tied to the rock star.

Darrell Hofheinz

Palm Beach Daily News

Updated May 20, 2025, 8:55 a.m. ET

Key Points

The house that just changed hands at 244 Orange Grove Road is just down the street from Jon Bon Jovi's oceanfront estate on the North End of Palm Beach.

The manager of the company that bought the house has been involved in two other Palm Beach real estate sales involving Bon Jovi.

No one involved is talking about the recent sale on Orange Grove Road.

Is Jon Bon Jovi linked to the recent purchase of a Palm Beach house on the North End’s Orange Grove Road, just down the street from the rocker’s oceanfront mansion?

Nothing’s definitive, because no one involved is talking about the deal, which recorded at $9.25 million. But the paperwork trail suggests Bon Jovi could be behind the purchase of the four-bedroom house at 244 Orange Grove Road.

After all, it’s not unusual for Palm Beach homeowners to buy smaller houses near their estates, often to accommodate guests, provide quarters for staff or even serve as private getaways in their own right.

Orange Grove Road intersects with North Ocean Boulevard directly in front the seaside estate Bon Jovi shares with his wife, Dorothea Hurley. The house on Orange Grove is the fifth one west of their mansion.

The Palm Beach Daily News is the first media outlet to report the sale.

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In the deal that closed May 13, the renovated 1950s-era house on Orange Grove was bought by a limited liability company managed by accountant Charles Sussman, records show. Sussman founded the Nashville accounting firm Sussman & Associates, which specializes in serving clients in the entertainment industry. It offers services dealing with international business management, royalties and tax planning, according to its website.

Sussman has been involved with other Palm Beach real estate purchases involving Bon Jovi. And he and his company are credited on at least two of the Bon Jovi’s albums for providing business-management services to the rock star and his band.

Sussman also manages the limited liability company that Bon Jovi used, in 2020, to buy his oceanfront estate at 1075 N. Ocean Blvd. for a recorded $43 million. That company’s name — 1075 North Ocean LLC — is structured similarly to 244 Orange Grove Road LLC, which just bought the house on Orange Grove Road.

Sussman also managed the company that Bon Jovi used to buy his first property in Palm Beach in 2018 — at 230 N. Ocean Blvd. — through a company named at the time 230 North Ocean LLC.

In the two purchases on North Ocean Boulevard, Bon Jovi’s interests were represented by broker Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate, who has always declined to discuss those deals or his clients with the Palm Beach Daily News.

Angle also represented the buyer in the sale on Orange Grove Road, according to the multiple listing service. The deed recorded May 14.

Angle decined to comment, and Sussman couldn’t be reached.

The listing broker in the Orange Grove deal was Linda Olsson of Linda R. Olsson Inc. She also declined to dicuss the transaction.

The house had been on and off the market since July 2022, when it entered the multiple listing service with an asking price of $12.75 million. The property saw several price reductions before the price settled at $10.175 million.

Built in 1952, the Bermuda Colonial-style house on Orange Grove Road has 3,955 square feet of living space, inside and out. It occupies a quarteracre lot, 10 streets north of the Palm Beach Country Club.

The seller was Dr. Joseph J. Ceravolo Jr., a Palm Beach Gardens periodontist who inherited the home from his late parents, Dorothy and Joseph James Ceravolo Sr., who both died in 2021.

Ceravolo Jr. spent his teenage years in the house after his family moved there in the early 1970s, he told the Palm Beach Daily News in a 2022 article about the house.

Ceravolo oversaw an extensive renovation of the house, working with designer Michael Perry of MP Design & Architecture and Brent Yohe of Yohe’s Lawn Care and Landscape. Aqua Building Group was the contractor.

“We added on about 1,000 square feet, which included the entire master bedroom suite,” Ceravolo told the Palm Beach Daily News in 2022.

"My thought process was to make the house more of an open environment with a chef’s kitchen and a large master suite with a bedroom-sized walkin closet. And now, there are two guest bedrooms and an office,” Ceravolo said in 2022.

The great room, the main bedroom and a guest suite access the pool, patio and gardens. Interior details include vaulted ceilings, hardwood floors and built-in cabinetry.

Bon Jovi’s oceanfront estate is much larger, with seven bedrooms and 13,035 total square feet, property records show. The lot measures about three-fifths of an acre and faces about 120 feet of direct beachfront.

A New Jersey native, Bon Jovi is the lead singer for his eponymous rock band, Bon Jovi, which in 2018 was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The band came to the forefront in the 1980s and has since sold more than 130 million albums worldwide, making it one of the best-selling American groups of all time, according to Billboard News. The band’s hits include “Living on a Prayer,” “Bad Medicine” and “Wanted Dead or Alive.”

His most recent hit single, 2024’s “Now or Never,” is a collaboration with Pitbull based on Bon Jovi’s 2000 song “It’s My Life.”

When Bon Jovi's company bought the oceanfront estate from retired communications entrepreneur Jeffrey A. Marcus and his wife, Nicola, in July 2020, Angle handled both sides of the sale. That deal closed simultaneously with the $19.85-million sale of the custom home the rocker and his wife had built on an oceanfront lot at 230 N. Ocean Blvd. In the latter sale, Angle handled the sellers’ side opposite Douglas Elliman Real Estate agents Chris Leavitt and Ashley McIntosh, who represented the buyer — a trust affiliated with mortgage lender Rob Posner and his wife, Zina.

Bon Jovi’s company had paid a recorded $10 million for the property at 230 N. Ocean Blvd. — with a since-razed house — in March 2018. In that sale, Angle also represented Bon Jovi's interests, negotiating opposite listing broker Lawrence Moens of Lawrence A. Moens Associates.

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Palm Beach waterfront home of Bob Vila, America's TV handyman, sells for $33 million

"This Old House" star Bob Vila and his wife, Diana Barrett, have sold their Palm Beach home for $33 million.

Darrell Hofheinz Palm Beach Daily News

Updated June 12, 2025, 1:15 p m ET

Key Points

On Everglades Island, the home of television celebrity Bob Vila and his wife, Diana Barrett, has sold for $33 million.

The seven-bedroom house at 690 Island Drive was built in 1949 but remodeled and expanded by Vila and Barrett. The property has 7,621 square feet of living space, inside and out.

Television handyman Bob Vila of "This Old House" fame and his wife, Diana Barrett, have parted with their lakefront Palm Beach estate for $33 million, according to the multiple listing service.

On the market with different agencies since late 2023, the estate at 690 Island Drive on Everglades Island had recently seen a $4 million price reduction to $35.9 million.

The seven-bedroom house was built in 1949 but remodeled and expanded by Vila and Barrett. The house has 7,621 square feet of living space, inside and out, and the interior space totals about 6,300 square feet.

The sale closed June 12, according to the MLS. But no deed had been recorded at the Palm Beach County courthouse as of noon that day. As a result, the buyer or buyer's identity wasn't yet in public records. It was also unclear if the sold price reported in the MLS would match the one expected to be documented by the county clerk's office.

Plans for the property under the new ownership are not yet known, including whether the house will be razed and replaced with a new one.

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On the east side of Everglades Island, the lot measures four-fifths of an acre with about 175 feet of frontage on the Intracoastal Waterway, a dock and a boat lift. The rear of the house looks directly across the lakeside pool patio to the Lake Worth Lagoon and the rest of Palm Beach.

The house had been in Barrett's family since the mid-1970s. She had owed it in her name since 2005, when she paid $6.1 million for it, property records show.

“When (Diana) bought the house, we were living in Massachusetts and had a beach house in Boca Grande, Florida, but Diana and I visited it frequently,” Vila told the Palm Beach Daily News for an April 2024 article about the property.

The estate has several areas designed for outdoor living, including a red-brick loggia. Large expanses of windows and glass pocket doors also capture water views.

Vila, a former chairman of the Palm Beach Architectural Commission, starred in the home-improvement shows “This Old House” and “Restore America with Bob Vila.” He also has his own website, BobVila.com. His wife’s professional resume includes teaching business and public health at Harvard University.

Broker Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate handled both sides of the sale, the MLS shows. He had held the listing since September 2024, when he priced it at $39.5 million.

Angle, Vila and Barrett could not immediately be reached for comment.

The house has been on the market since November 2023, when it was first listed at $52.9 million by one of Vila and Barrett’s children, real estate agent Chris Vila of PB Realty Advisors. Brown Harris Stevens agents Liza Pulitzer, Whitney McGurk and Blair Kirwan later co-listed the property PB Realty Advisors. Angle then took over the listing alone.

The homeowners reduced the price several times since the property was first listed.

The house has not been for sale in nearly 50 years when it was put on the market in 2023, according to the original sales listing. It had been in Barrett’s family before she bought it from the estate of her late mother, Gioconda King. King, who died in 2004, was the widow of investment banker Joseph King and had owned the house since 1975.

“It’s a lovely mixture of Old Florida with a real family legacy — but brought up to 2024 standards,” Barrett told the Palm Beach Daily News last year.

Vila and Barrett’s improvement projects to the property were detailed and extensive, Vila told the Palm Beach Daily News for the same article.

“The house had to be completely renovated,” Vila said. “It was lovely to look at, beautifully decorated and filled with antiques. But when you take everything out, if you are a builder, you say to yourself, ‘There are problems.’ The electric (system) and plumbing were antiquated, and the roof needed to be replaced.”

With a fireplace, the living room connects to an expansive poolside loggia that is completely enclosed with glass windows and doors.

The layout also includes a water-view main bedroom suite, a dining room and a library. A newer wing includes the kitchen, a pantry, a breakfast-and-family room, a laundry area, the two-car garage and a guesthouse addition.

Outdoor-living areas also include a patio at the home’s entry and an open-air brick loggia and pool patio shared by the family room and guesthouse. To the south of the family room is another patio and a slat house for growing orchids.

Barrett had the house listed as her primary home in Palm Beach County property records.

Island Drive runs the length of Everglades Island, an island three-quarters of a mile long in Palm Beach's Estate Section. The island is connected to the rest of Palm Beach by a short bridge to Island Road.

In November 2024, Vila and his wife sold, for $13.375 million, a 1940s-era Palm Beach house at 345 Pendleton Lane in Midtown. The couple had bought the Pendleton Lane house for a recorded $12.5 million in December 2023 and then carried out a modest renovation, inside and out, according to building records.

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UPDATE: Estate fetches $30M on Via Sunny in Midtown Palm Beach

At 5 Via Sunny in Midtown, the estate comprises an acre and was bought by a Delaware limited liability company, the deed shows. The property had last sold for $11.875 million in 2007.

Darrell Hofheinz

Palm Beach Daily News

Dec. 8, 2025 Updated Dec. 9, 2025, 1:13 p.m. ET

Key Points

The estate at 5 Via Sunny in Midtown Palm Beach has a six-bedroom main residence and a twobedroom guesthouse.

The Mediterranean-style estate was built in 1998 and had been owned since July 2007 through the Five Via Sunny Trust.

Public records also link the estate's former ownership to Katherine "Kate" O'Donnell and her late husband, Boston businessman Joseph O'Donnell.

A Delaware-registered limited liability company was the buyer, the deed recorded Dec. 9 shows.

An estate that had not changed hands in nearly 20 years has sold on Via Sunny in Midtown Palm Beach for $30 million, the price recorded with the deed.

The property had been priced at about $33 million and was listed in both the single-family and land categories of the multiple listing service.

The buyer was a Delaware-registered limited liability company named after the property's address at 5 Via Sunny. The entity's mailing address is in care of Sniffen & Spellman, a law firm in West Palm Beach. A message left for a real estate attorney in that office was not immediately returned.

Because of Delaware's strict corporate -privacy laws, no other information about anyone else associated with the buyer was available in public records.

The Mediterranean-style estate was built in 1998 and owned since 2007 through the Five Via Sunny Trust, named after the property’s address, property records show. The ownership also is linked in public records to the late Boston entrepreneur and businessman Joseph J. O'Donnell, who was married for 53 years to Katherine “Kate” O'Donnell at his death in January 2024 at age 79.

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The Five Via Sunny Trust paid $11.875 million for the estate in July 2007.

The six-bedroom house and separate two-bedroom guesthouse have a combined 11,639 square feet of living space, inside and out, according to the property’s sales listing.

On an irregularly shaped lot east of the Lake Trail, the estate encompasses an acre on the north side of Via Sunny. The lakeblock road has just six houses three on each side of the street, including two with addresses on the corner of Cocoanut Row.

Via Sunny lies about midway between Royal Palm Way and Royal Poinciana Way, major east-west thoroughfares that access bridges to the mainland. Among the estate’s selling points was its proximity to shopping, dining and cultural venues in Midtown as well as the Lake Trail walkingand-bicycling path nearby.

Agent Laura Pope of Sotheby’s International Realty confirmed she handled the buyer’s side of the deal. She declined to comment about the transaction or anyone involved in it.

Broker Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate held the listing for the property. He had the estate priced at $32.95 million, down from its asking price of $37.9 million when he listed it in late November 2024.

Angle declined to comment about the sale.

But his sales description mentioned the main house’s “elegant, doubleheight living room” with “a beautiful fireplace.” Other features of the residence include an elevator, a dining room, a family room, a library, a studio and a four-car garage. The primary bedroom suite on the second floor opens to a private balcony, while a ground-level “VIP guest suite” has a covered terrace.

The guesthouse, meanwhile, has a living room, a kitchenette and two bathrooms.

The grounds have been landscaped with lush plantings, and there’s a winding trail through the gardens that separate the main house from the guesthouse. Outdoor amenities include a “resort-

style” pool, a whirlpool spa and a patio and loggias with “an abundance of seating,” the listing says.

The property had entered the market with another agency in April 2024 at $44.95 million, although that price had also been reduced, to $39.9 million, a few months before Angle acquired the listing, the MLS shows.

Joseph O'Donnell founded Boston Culinary Group, a food-service and concessions company, as well as a variety of other businesses, including Allied Advertising. He also in invested in real estate.

Houses rarely change hands on Via Sunny. But in June 2023, a house at 130 Cocoanut Row catty-corner from the one that just sold — sold on the corner of Via Sunny for a recorded $16.2 million. Mississippi businessman and former Ambassador to Tanzania Michael Retzer Sr. was linked in public records to the ownership company that bought that updated 1928 house.

Angle represented the buyer in the sale of 130 Cocoanut Row, negotiating opposite agent Jim McCann of Premier Estate Properties, according to MLS records.

(This story was updated to add new information.)

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Seaside 'spec' house developed by trash tycoon brings $38.75M in Palm

Beach

The never-lived-in seaside house at 1742 S. Ocean Blvd. was developed on speculation by a company managed by trash-and-recycling mogul Anthony Lomangino.

Darrell Hofheinz Palm Beach Daily News

Updated June 23, 2025, 7:23 p m ET

An oceanside house built on speculation and completed last year by a garbagemanagement tycoon has sold for $38.75 million on the stretch of coastal road known as Billionaires Row in Palm Beach. The sale price was reported June 23 with an updated listing in the multiple listing service.

The six-bedroom house at 1742 S. Ocean Blvd appears to have been sold by a limited liability company managed by Palm Beach resident Anthony Lomangino, who redeveloped the property for resale. He and his wife, Lynda, own an oceanfront estate down the street from the one that just changed hands.

Lomangino bought the property at 1742 S. Ocean Blvd. for a recorded $10 million in March 2020 and then razed a 1987 contemporary-style house there to make room for the British West Indies-style residence just sold by his company.

No deed had been recorded as of late in the afternoon June 23, so the buyer's identity isn't yet known. It's also unclear if the price reported in the MLS will match the one expected to be recorded at the Palm Beach County Courthouse.

The never-lived-in house has 9,886 square feet of living space, inside and out, and stands on the corner of Via Agape. On three-fifths of an acre, the estate lies about

1.4 miles north of President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago along the stretch of South Ocean Boulevard known to locals as “Billionaire’s Row.”

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The property faces about 97 feet of vacant beachfront across the coastal road. But only about 50 feet of shoreline changed hands with the house. The remainder is deeded to a lakefront home immediately to the west of the house that just sold.

Listing broker Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate had the property priced at $44.95 million when it sold. He had held the listing since February. He could not be immediately reached for comment.

Agents Suzanne Frisbie of the Corcoran Group handled the buyer's side of the deal, which closed June 23, the MLS shows. She declined to comment.

Lomangino is a longtime Trump donor. In late April, Trump posted on his socialmedia platform TruthSocial that he was nominating Lomangino to serve on the board of governors of the U.S. Postal Service. The nomination must be confirmed by the U.S. Senate, and the Postal Service's website does not list Lomangino on its board.

The house was designed by architect Harold Smith of Smith and Moore Architects in West Palm Beach. Among its most prominent features is a swimming pool with a whirlpool spa on the front lawn, which is hidden from traffic on South Ocean Boulevard by a wall.

Angle’s sales listing mentioned the home’s hardwood and marble floors, detailed ceilings and high levels of craftsmanship. The floorplan includes a foyer that leads to a formal living room with a beamed ceiling. The residence also has a formal dining room, a family room and an office with floor-to-ceiling built-in cabinetry.

The kitchen’s U-shaped work island has pull-up seating and offers “peeks of the ocean,” the listing said. The primary bedroom suite has a sitting room, dual bathrooms and two walk-in closets.

Lomangino's limited liability company bought the property at 1742 S. Ocean Blvd. in February 2020 from Dallas-based real estate investor Gunther E. Lehmann, courthouse records show. In the 2020 sale, Broker Earl Hollis of Earl A. Hollis Inc. held the listing and negotiated opposite agent Jana Scarpa of William Raveis South Florida.

Scarpa also represented Lomangino and his wife, Lynda, in 2019 when they paid a recorded $12.65 million for their oceanview house at 1620 S. Ocean Blvd., less than a quarter mile north of the one that just changed hands at No. 1742. In the 2019 deal, agents Paulette Koch and Dana Koch of the Corcoran Group represented the sellers, retired attorney Laurence “Buzzy” Abramson and his wife, Eileen. The sixbedroom house at No. 1620 was built in 2006 and has 10,111 total square feet.

The Architectural Commission unanimously approved the design of the just-sold spec house in September 2022, town records show. Robert Simmons of Simmons Building Corp. in Jupiter was the contractor.

Landscape architect John Lang of Lang Design Group in Lake Worth designed the grounds. The outdoor spaces include covered loggias and balconies.

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in Palm Beach

The estate at 1230 S. Ocean Blvd. is less than a quarter mile south of President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club.

Hofheinz Palm Beach Daily News

Published 3:53 p.m. ET March 4, 2025 Updated 10:21 a.m. ET March 5, 2025

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The house at 1230 S. Ocean Blvd. recently underwent an extensive renovation project. When the property last sold for $11.5 million in August 2020, a renovation project started by a previous owner had stalled.

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The house was listed, furnished, at $49 million in November. It's unclear if the furnishings changed hands in the just-closed sale.

A recently renovated-and-rebuilt house at 1230 S. Ocean Blvd. in Palm Beach has sold for a recorded $40 million on the stretch of costal road known to locals as Billionaires Row, just south of President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club.

On the east side of the road, the five-bedroom house stands on one of the few non-waterfront lots in the neighborhood. Measuring just under an acre, the property at the corner of Emerald Beach Way is hemmed in by two much larger oceanfront estates.

The deed recorded March 4 lists the buyer as Julie Chrystyn Opperman, who acted as trustee of a marital trust under a trust agreement with a “special trust” in the name of her late husband, businessman Dwight D. Opperman.

Built in 1986, the Palm Beach Regency-style house has 11,038 square feet of living space, inside and out.

The house was sold by 1230 LLC, a Delaware-registered limited liability company linked in property records to investments specialist David Herro and Jay Franke of Hartland outside Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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The house last changed hands in an August 2020 sale recorded at $11.5 million. It then underwent a major construction project that completed and enhanced a remodeling effort begun several years before the 2020 sale.

The house had been listed for sale, completely furnished, in November with a price of $49 million by agent Chris Leavitt of Douglas Elliman Real Estate. It’s unclear from the deed if the furnishings changed hands in the sale.

Leavitt declined to discuss the sale. But when the house was listed, he told the Palm Beach Daily News the estate was a meticulously renovated custom home with fine finishes, luxurious materials, elegant furnishings and manicured grounds.

“It’s one of the most spectacular, move-in ready homes that we’ve seen in a long time in Palm Beach,” he said in November.

Broker Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate handled the buyer’s side of the sale. He declined to comment.

Dwight D. Opperman, who died in 2013, was the former CEO of West Publishing Co. and established WestLaw, an online research and resource tool that serves the legal community. After the forerunner to Thomson Reuters purchased West in 1996, Opperman became a venture capitalist as chairman of Key Investments, specializing in in the technology industry, according to his obituary.

The recent renovation of the house on South Ocean Boulevard was overseen by contractor Greg Giuliano of Greg Giuliano Construction. The project was designed by New York Citybased architects Richard A. Bories and James Shearron of Bories and Shaearron Architects in collaboration with Palm Beach designer Michael Perry of MP Design & Architecture, town records show.

Interior designer Miles Redd of New York City decorated the residence. Fernando Wong of Fernando Wong Outdoor Living Design of Palm Beach and Miami drew up the plans for the extensive formal gardens.

The house has a ground-floor primary bedroom suite that includes an office, two walk-in closets, a fireplace and a “spa-like bathroom with a soaking tub and shower, according to Leavitt’s sales listing.

The first floor also includes a formal living room, a formal dining area, a gym and a guest bedroom with an en-suite bathroom. Upstairs are more en-suite bedrooms.

The well-equipped kitchen includes a gas stove by La Cornue and a wine fridge. Other features of the property include state-of-the-art lighting, sound and water-filtration systems.

On the sellers' side, David Herro is a partner, deputy chairman and chief investment officer for international equities at Harris Associates in Chicago. Franke is a former professional dancer who founded and served as co-artistic director of the Chicago Dancing Festival. Herro and Franke also are principals of Delafield, Wisconsin-based HF Hospitality Group, which restores historic buildings for use as event spaces, lounges, clubs and restaurants, according to its website. The company's projects included the restoration, with a partner firm, of Milwaukee’s 1882 National Block building. The firm's latest project is The Commodore, a 1902 building on Nagawicka Lake in Delafield.

Although the house that just changed hands is on South Ocean Boulevard near Mar-a-Lago, it is not part of the security zone that closes to through-traffic when Trump is in residence at at Mar-a-Lago.

When the estate sold in 2020, a renovation project had been stalled for several years under the previous owner, New Jersey car dealer and real estate investor Thomas Maoli.

The listing agents in the 2020 sale were Paulette Koch and Dana Koch of the Corcoran Group. The MLS does not show who represented the buyer’s side of that deal.

Prior to the 2020 sale, the property had been on the market for more than four years, advertised in the local multiple listing service in both the single-family house category and as a buildable lot.

Immediately to the east of the house is a mostly vacant lot with a tennis court, part of the sizable oceanfront estate owned by John and Margaret Thornton. The Thornton estate also abuts the south side of the property that just changed hands.

On the north side of the house is La Billucia, a landmarked ocean estate owned by billionaire Jeff Greene and his wife, Mei Sze.

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House sale brings to an end Jimmy Buffett's longtime affiliation with Palm Beach

The house that just sold for a recorded $4.2 million at 135B Root Trail was one of three singer owned on the street. A member of the Pittsburgh Steelers' Rooney family is on the buyer's side.

Darrell Hofheinz

Palm Beach Daily News

Updated April 16, 2025, 5:24 p m ET

Key Points

The house at 135B Root Trail was among three that were owned by Jimmy Buffet's real estate company when the singer died in September 2023.

The house that just changed hands had an asking price of $4.775 million.

Jimmy Buffett paid $950,000 for the house in 2013 and then carried out renovations. The property had an asking price of $4.775 million.

The house that just sold shares a breezeway with one the Buffett family sold February for a recorded $4.795 million.

The last of three Palm Beach houses owned by Jimmy Buffett when he died in 2023 has sold for a recorded $4.2 million on Root Trail, just down the block from the beach where the “Margaritaville” singer and avid surfer could sometimes be seen catching some waves.

The buyer of the house at 135B Root Trail was a limited liability company named Found Me A Home LLC, which is managed by attorney Timothy J. Rooney Jr., records show. Rooney is the grandson of the late Pittsburgh Steelers founder Art Rooney.

The unassuming house was part of a compound of sorts Buffett assembled with purchases in 2013 and 2002 on the same street. Buffett bought the properties through his real estate ownership company, Sadeca Realty LLC.

The sale recorded April 16 closes the final verse on Palm Beach real estate’s affiliation with Buffett, which began in 1994 when the songwriter and his wife, Jane, paid a recorded $4.4 million for their first home on the island. They sold that 1920s-era home at 540 S. Ocean Blvd. for a recorded $18.5 million in 2010 and it was later demolished.

The Daily News is the first media outlet to report the transaction on Root Trail.

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The two-story house that just sold on Root Trail has two bedrooms and 2,660 square feet of living sapce, inside and out.

Rooney's career has included a role on the management team at Empire City Casino at Yonkers Raceway in New York. In early 2019, the Rooney family sold the racetrack and casino to MGM Resorts International for a reported $850 million in cash and stock.

Rooney has owned property in Palm Beach before, property records show. In May 2021, he sold, for a recorded $9.3 million, a Palm Beach house at

239 Emerald Lane on the North End.

Buffett’s widow signed the deed to sell the house on Root Trail as an authorized member of Sadeca Realty LLC, which the document said was a “dissolved” Florida limited liability company. The deed also was signed by Richard A. Mozenter in the same role. Mozenter is a managing director of Gelfand, Rennert & Feldman, a business-management firm that serves high-net worth clients in the entertainment industry, its website shows. The company has offices in Los Angles, New York, London and other cities.

The house that just sold was asking $4.775 million when the property went under contract. The property originally was priced at $6.125 million last summer, but that price dropped to $5.25 million before settling at the current asking.

Buffett bought the home in 2013 for a recorded $950,000, property records show.

All three Buffett homes on Root Trail entered the market in July, less than a year after the singer’s death from cancer in September 2023. He was 76 when he died in New York.

With Key West-style architecture, the house that just sold is similar to one next door that sold in February for a recorded $4.795 million. Both houses are connected by a brick-paved covered breezeway that leads to a courtyard. The house that just changed hands is the westernmost of the two buildings.

The side-by-side houses were redeveloped by the same team before Buffett bought them both in separate transactions in 2013. They were originally part of a two-building apartment complex dating from at least the 1920s.

All three of the houses on Root Trail were co-listed last summer by agent Blake Hanley of Brown Harris Stevens and his mother, broker Denise Hanley of Denise A. Hanley Inc.

At the house that just sold, Buffett had carried out a remodeling project and set up the downstairs area “like a hang-out room with a big-screen TV and a ping-pong table,” Blake Hanley told the Palm Beach Daily News when the house went under contract in early April. “It's a very casual setup.”

Blake Hanley declined further comment. He and his mother also have never confirmed that the houses were linked to the Buffett family, although property and business records show that to be the case.

Broker Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate acted on behalf of the buyer, he confirmed. He declined to discuss the sale.

Angle also represented Rooney in the sale of the house on Emerald Lane nearly four years ago.

Buffett’s company paid a recorded $1.3 million for the house next door at 135A Root Trail, which has three bedrooms and 3,176 total square feet, property records show. That house sold via a deed recorded in late February to Alabama businesswoman and Palm Beach resident Amber Ramsay. The buyer was represented by agent Laura Semler of Brown Harris Stevens.

The first of the three Root Trail houses to sell was a two-bedroom landmarked cottage built between 1900 and 1915 at No. 138, on the opposite side of the street and catty-corner from the house that just went under contract. That property sold in mid-November for a recorded $6.1 million to a Montreal-based general partnership represented by agent Jim McCann of Premier Estate Properties. Buffett used the cottage’s onebedroom outbuilding as his music studio. The singer had paid a recorded $802,000 for the cottage in 2002.

The same year Buffett bought the cottage, his ownership company sold three condominiums in a building across town at 401 Peruvian Ave. for a combined $628,000, property records show. Buffett had bought them for $555,000 via deeds recorded in 2000 and 2001.

In April 2023, about five months before his death, Buffett was named a billionaire for the first time by Forbes.com, which recognized not only his musical success but also his business acumen.

His death shocked fans who were devoted to him for his accessible personality, his laid-back lifestyle and his music, including iconic songs like “Cheeseburger in Paradise,” “Come Monday,” “Fins” and “A Pirate Looks at Forty.”

Among Palm Beach’s oldest streets, Root Trail runs between the ocean and North County Road, four streets north of The Breakers resort. Once home to an artist’s colony, Root Trail is a narrow street lined with historic buildings, Key West-style cottages and newer homes. It is also within walking distance the North County Road and the Royal Poinciana Way commercial district.

Although he is most often associated with Key West, Buffett said he enjoyed Palm Beach's small-town atmosphere and deeply entrenched aura of privacy. "No one bothers me. It's amazing. I'm not on television and that's the big difference. I can walk around with shocking anonymity. People don't know who I am," he told the Palm Beach Post in 2015. He frequently performed at local charitable fundraisers, including benefits sponsored by the Everglades Foundation — for which he served for years as a board member — and the Navy SEAL Foundation.

During his nearly 30 years in town, Buffett and his wife bought and sold several houses. In all, about $37.8 million changed hands in his various Palm Beach real estate deals, courthouse records show. The since-razed mansion the Buffetts bought in 1994 at 540 S. Ocean Blvd. stood directly across the coastal road from the beach. Stretching for a block between South Ocean Boulevard and Middle Road, the estate included the 1926 main residence and an outbuilding, with a total of eight bedrooms and 16,897 square feet of living space, inside and out, according to property records and sales listings.

In all, the estate on South Ocean Boulevard measured a little more than one-and-a-half acres and faced 200 feet of oceanfront

Among the property's features were a tennis court fronting Middle Road and an oceanfront swimming pool on the front lawn, which was frequently enjoyed by Buffett, his wife and their family, according to one neighbor who lived nearby.

Originally known as Anetteamo, the house in the Estate Section was designed in the Mediterranean style by a noted society architect, Marion Sims Wyeth. But it was significantly expanded over the years, and those projects transformed it into a British Colonial-style residence, thanks to a design overhaul by architect Howard Major.

In June 2010, the Buffetts sold the estate to a company linked to healthcare-equipment billionaire Jon Stryker, who at the time owned a historic home abutting the property. Stryker later put the former Buffett estate on the market and sold it in 2014 in a $43 million deal that included his personal residence next door. The buyer was an entity controlled by Sir Peter Wood, a British insurance magnate and Palm Beach developer.

Wood ended up razing the old Buffett house, cleared the land and built two oceanfront mansions on the property and an adjacent lot. One of those homes was for his own use on the parcel the Buffetts had owned, which was readdressed as 101 Via Marina; and the other house was developed and sold on speculation. The latter recently changed hands privately in a sale reported to have hit $73 million.

In 2011, a year after selling their seaside estate on South Ocean Boulevard, the Buffetts paid a recorded $4.95 million for a three-bedroom house across town at 309 Garden Road. Unlike some of their other properties in town, the deed shows they bought the house in their own names, with Jimmy's name appearing on the document as "James W. Buffett."

Part of a quiet, North End neighborhood, the custom home built in 2003 on Garden Road had a tropical feeling, according to the sales listing when the Buffetts closed the deal. With "island contemporary" architecture, the

house had a "Zen-like retreat" ambience. The Buffetts owned the house for nearly nine years. They sold it in November 2020 for $6.9 million, courthouse records show.

The Rooney family of the Steelers’ football and horse-racing empire has deep roots in Palm Beach. One of Art Rooney’s sons is Timothy J. Rooney Sr., a longtime president and CEO of the New York racetrack and casino. Rooney Sr. and his wife, June, for several decades have had a home on the island.

Rooney Sr.’s brother, Arthur J. Rooney Jr., and wife Kay also have a home in Palm Beach. Their brother, the late John Rooney, also had a home in town, which his widow, JoAnn Rooney, still owns. Their son, Sean Rooney, and his wife, Colleen Rooney, also live in Palm Beach.

The extended Rooney family’s business interests include ownership of the Palm Beach Kennel Club in West Palm Beach.

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Extensively renovated Palm Beach house on Wells Road sells for about $18 million

Sellers in Palm Beach deal recorded at $17.95 million had bought the home in 2018 for less than $7M and then completely remodeled it. They just sold it to a trust.

Darrell Hofheinz

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Updated June 24, 2025, 12:42 p m ET

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Built in 1986, the Mediterranean-style house at 110 Wells Road in Palm Beach sold for a recorded $17.85 million. A trust named after the property's address was on the buyer's side of the sale.

The sellers were investment banker and attorney Rick Knop and his ex-wife, Leslee Helene Belluchie, who spent much of her career working with U.S. defense and intelligence agencies.

The house had been extensively remodeled since it last changed hands for a recorded $6.79 million in 2018.

The sellers had bought the house from a company controlled by Max Weinberg, a real estate investor and the drummer for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band.

The homeowners who carried out a two-year, down-to-the-studs renovation of a 1980s-era house on Wells Road have sold it for a recorded $17.85 million on the near North End of Palm Beach.

The sellers of 110 Wells Road were investment banker and attorney Rick Knop and his ex-wife, Leslee Helene Belluchie, who spent much of her career working with U.S. defense and intelligence agencies. The deed was recorded June 24.

They had bought the house for a recorded $6.79 million in 2018, when they were still married, from a company controlled by Max Weinberg, a real estate investor and the drummer for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band. Weinberg also was late-

night television host Conan O’Brien’s sidekick on talk shows in he 1990s and 2000s.

A trust named after the property's address was on the buyer's side of the just-closed sale, with Palm Beach attorney Guy Rabideau serving as trustee. Because of privacy rules governing trusts, no other information about the buyer was immediately available in public records.

Built in 1986, the Mediterranean-style house has 6,723 square feet of living space, inside and out, and stands on a lot measuring a little more than a third of an acre in the ocean block of Wells Road. The property is a half mile north of The Breakers’ golf course.

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The five-bedroom house had been on the market since May 2024, when it was first listed at $28.5 million. It had undergone several price reductions before settling at $21.5 million in January, and sold in a deal that closed June 18, the multiple listing service shows.

Knop is an attorney whose professional resume includes working in the Washington, D.C., area as an investment banker and an investor in the government/defense industry. Belluchie is an engineer by training.

The deed lists Belluchie with an address in Sarasota and her ex-husband with one in Edgewater, Maryland.

Paulette Koch and Dana Koch held the listing for the house on Wells Road. They know the property well, having once listed it for sale for Weinberg.

Broker Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate acted on behalf of the buyer in the most recent transaction. Angle also had handled both sides of the 2018 sale when Knop and Belluchie bought the property from Weinberg’s company.

Knop was already familiar with the residence before the 2018 purchase, he told the Palm Beach Daily News in a 2024 article about the house.

“Between the ocean and the lake, I had walked by this house many times with my dogs, and I think the location is spectacular,” Knop said in 2024. “Wells Road is one of the most beautiful streets in Palm Beach, and this property is one house off the ocean with a gate to the beach right out the front door.”

The sellers’ renovation resulted in interiors with detailed moldings, beamed ceilings, wrought-iron embellishments and floors covered in stone and hardwood.

Work crews extended the width of the foyer, where a picture window was added to frame a view of the L-shaped loggia. The rooms overlooking the pool and spa have French doors that lead into the poolside loggia, while the cabana room opens to a terrace.

Crews also opened up the entrance from the family room into the living room.

The living room is topped with a pitched ceiling, set off by stenciled beams. In addition to the French doors accessing the loggia, another set of doors opens to a garden terrace.

The layout also includes a formal dining room, a two-car garage and a a library that can double as a bedroom suite. Upstairs, a balcony with a retractable awning access three of the bedrooms and overlooks the revamped pool area.

As part of their remodeling project, the sellers gave the exterior more of an Italianate feel by adding iron adornments and a balcony over the front door. The landscaping was designed by Keith Williams of Nievera Williams Design includes French- and Italian-imported statuary and fountains.

The late developer James A. Pappas had previously renovated the house before he sold it for a recorded $7.5 million to the company controlled by Weinberg in 2016, records show.

Owner who carried out two renovations sells Palm Beach home for $13.75 million

The seller had added on to her Palm Beach house at 218 Miraflores Drive since buying it for $835,000 in 1995.

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Updated March 14, 2025, 3:57 p.m. ET

Vera Alfieri Monforte has sold, for $13.75 million, the Palm Beach house she bought three decades ago for $835,000 and then expanded — twice.

One of her renovations added a second floor to the house, which was built in 1993 at 218 Miraflores Drive on the North End.

A revocable trust named after the property’s address was on the buyer’s side of the sale, according to the deed recorded March 14. Scott W. Hoffman of New York City is trustee of that trust, which has a mailing address in care of the Alley, Maass, Rogers & Lindsay law firm in Palm Beach.

The five-bedroom residence has 5,259 square feet of living space inside and out. The house stands on the south side of Miraflores Drive on lot

measuring a little more than a quarter-acre, about midway between Royal Poinciana Way and the Palm Beach Country Club.

Monforte bought the house in July 1995 when she traveling between Mexico City and New York City, she told the Palm Beach Daily News for an article last fall. At the time she bought the house, she panned to use it for visits to Palm Beach with her late husband, Julio Serrano.

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“In the beginning, I (stayed) more in New York City, traveling and living in Mexico City. But as you know, Palm Beach grows on you, and little by little, I loved living here. The island is so special,” she said. “This has been my one and only house in Palm Beach.”

Broker Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate handled both sides of the sale that just closed. He first listed the house in January 2023 at about $15.6 million, according to MLS records. After a summer hiatus from the MLS in 2024, he relisted it last November at $14.9 million.

Angle declined to comment about the sale.

As trustee of the buying trust, Hoffman signed a $7.3 million, 30-year mortgage on the Mirflores Drive house with lender BNY Mellon, courthouse records show. The mortgage document lists Hoffman's address as a New York City co-operative apartment on Sutton Place.

Hoffman could not be reached for comment.

Monforte’s first addition, in 2014, expanded the master bedroom suite, which takes up the entire east wing on the ground level.

In 2020, she added the second floor, which has a guest bedroom suite with a balcony overlooking the pool area and another suite that doubles as a gym. It’s adjacent to a wet bar and utility room fitted with plumbing.

Contractor Tim Givens of Tim Givens Building & Remodeling handled both projects.

The floorplan also includes a stair hall, a living room, an office, a family room and a dining room. With a breakfast area, the kitchen has cabinets from Knapp Kitchens, quartzite counters and backsplashes, and professional-grade appliances.

A cabana bathroom serves the pool area, while a wine-storage room is tucked under the stairway.

The second addition also included a new pool with a non-slip marble patio and whirlpool spa. The pool has a swim-flow system so bathers can simulate laps.

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Palm Beach couple sells house for $18M, buys another for $12M, deeds show

Thomas E. Harvey and wife Cathleen P. Black sell their North End house near the ocean for $18 million and buy a home on Via Linda for $12 million, deeds show.

Darrell Hofheinz

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June 11, 2025 Updated June 13, 2025, 10:43 a m ET

Key Points

Attorney Thomas E. Harvey and his media-executive wife, Cathleen P. Black, sold their three-bedroom house at 1066 N. Ocean Blvd. for a recorded $18 million.

The buyer on North Ocean Boulevard was a Delaware-registered limited liability company.

Black and Harvey paid $12 million for another North End house at 302 Via Linda.

A Palm Beach couple has sold a house on the North End for $18 million and bought another about a mile-and-a-half away for $12 million, newly recorded deeds show.

In the higher-dollar deal, attorney Thomas E. Harvey and his media-executive wife, Cathleen "Cathie" P. Black, sold their three-bedroom house at 1066 N. Ocean Blvd. to a Delaware-registered limited liability company named Creekshore LLC, a deed recorded June 11 shows.

The deed for the private sale on North Ocean Boulevard lists the buyer with a Palm Beach mailing address that matches the office of the Rabideau Klein law firm headed by attorneys Guy Rabideau and David Klein. The identity of anyone else associated with the buying entity remains cloaked, thanks to Delaware's strict corporate privacy laws.

With 4,305 square feet of living space, the house on North Ocean Boulevard is directly across the street from two vacant oceanfront lots that sold together early this year to an as-yet-unidentified buyer at a price said to have hit $160 million.

Harvey and Black bought the house on North Ocean Boulevard in 2018 for a recorded $4.15 million and had it homesteaded as their primary residence in the latest Palm Beach County tax rolls.

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They declined to comment about the two transactions.

The sale of the North Ocean Boulevard house nearly coincided with Harvey and Black's purchase, for $12 million, of a substantially renovated 1960s-era house — with four bedrooms and 5,272 total square feet — at 302 Via Linda. The seller in that deal was Noémi K. Neidorff, who acted as personal representative of the estate of her late husband, health-care executive Michael F. Neidorff, according to the deed recorded June 5. Noémi Neirdorff declined to comment for this story.

Rob Thomson, owner of Waterfront Properties & Club Communities, had the house listed at $13.95 million when it sold, the multiple listing service shows. He had originally priced it at $15 million when it entered the market in February.

Agents Ashley McIntosh and Kendall Corso of Douglas Elliman Real Estate represented Harvey and Black's interests in their purchase on Via Linda, according to the MLS.

McIntosh confirmed for the Palm Beach Daily News that she and Corso handled the sellers' side of 1066 N. Ocean Blvd. but she declined further comment.

Broker Ryan Serhant of Serhant confirmed he handled the buyer's side of the sale of No. 1066 but would not discuss details of the transaction or the parties involved.

The Palm Beach Daily News has confirmed that broker Christian Angle of Christian Angle Angle Real Estate also played a role on the buyer's side of No. 1066. Angle could not Angle

be reached for comment.

Serhant also handled the buyer's side of the two vacant lots across the street when they were sold by companies controlled by Estée Lauder billionaire William P. Lauder.

With ties to New York City, Black is a former president and publisher of USA Today, which is owned by Gannett, the parent company of the Palm Beach Daily News. Black also is a former president and chair of Hearst Magazines who has served on the boards of Fortune 500 companies.

Harvey's career in public service has included tenure as assistant secretary of veterans aﬀairs for Congressional aﬀairs; general counsel and Congressional liaison at the U.S. Information Agency; chief counsel and staff director of the U.S. Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee; principal deputy assistant secretary for logistics of the U.S. Navy; and deputy assistant secretary of acquisitions for the Army. He also has served as senior counsel for the Institute of International Education.

The Mediterranean-style house Harvey and Black just sold on North Ocean Boulevard was built in 2003, property records show. It occupies a quarter-acre lot on the northwest corner of List Road.

The house has high ceilings, a covered loggia, a two-car garage and impact-resistant glass doors and windows, according to a previous sales listing. When the house sold in 2018, the layout included a living room, family room, formal dining room, breakfast area and a library with its own bathroom, the MLS shows.

Built in 1961 and substantially renovated in 2019, the Palm Beach Regency-style house Harvey and Black just bought on Via Linda stands on a lot of about a third of an acre at the southwest corner of North Lake Way. Michael Neidorff had paid a recorded $6.3 million for it in 2018, property records show.

Michael Neidorff, who died at 79 in April 2022, was the longtime CEO of Centene Corp., a managed-health-care company based in St. Louis.

The Neidorffs worked with contractor Stephen Macari of Macari Building & Design to update the house on Via Linda, said Thomson of Waterfront Properties. "He did a really nice job," Thomson said. "And it was beautifully maintained. (The house) was spotless when you walked through it."

Among its features, the house on Via Linda has a lushly landscaped backyard with a pool area designed for "relaxation or entertaining," according to its sales listing.

The sale of the two empty lots at 1063 and 1071 N. Ocean Blvd. was first reported in February. Angle negotiated for Lauder opposite Serhant. Combined, those lots measure 2.26 acres with about 363 feet of direct shoreline between them.

When the house at 1066 N. Ocean Blvd. sold in 2018, McIntosh handled the buyer's side. Representing the seller in that deal was agent Ben Stein, then of Brown Harris Steven but today with Sotheby's International Realty.

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Palm Beach lakefront house fetches

$23.75M after nearly two years on the market

The sellers of the lakefront property at 1050 N. Lake Way on the North End bought the house for about $4 million in 1995.

Published 11:32 a.m. ETJan. 31, 2025 Updated 12:28 p.m. ET Jan. 31, 2025

A renovated 1960s-era lakefront estate at 1050 N. Lake Way in Palm Beach’s North End has sold for $23.75 million, nearly two years after the sellers first put it on the market.

The Palm Beach Regency-style house, which has about 95 feet of frontage on the Intracoastal Waterway, had not changed hands in nearly 30 years.

The property was last listed at $29 million when it sold, down from the $40.5-million asking price it carried when it entered the multiple listing service in February 2023. The asking price for the house on North Lake Way had dropped five times since the property was first listed, MLS records show.

Over the past two years, asking prices for many properties in Palm Beach moderated in the wake of the real estate frenzy that accompanied the first two years of the coronavirus pandemic, real estate observers say.

The renovated house has five bedrooms and 8,564 square feet of living space, inside and out, according to the closed sales listing.

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The sellers were Alfred B. Engelberg and his wife, Gail, according to the deed recorded Jan. 31. They had paid $3.9 million for the property in 1995, courthouse records show.

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The just-recorded deed lists the Engelbergs’ address in West Palm Beach as condominium No. 2003 at The Bristol the ultra-luxury tower at 1100 S. Flagler Drive. The have owned that condo since 2023, when they bought it for a recorded $19.8 million.

On the buyer’s side of the sale on North Lake Way was a land trust with the same mailing address as Cypress Forest Holdings LLC in White Plains, New York, the deed shows. Cypress Forest Holdings was founded by investor David Windreich, who serves as its managing partner, according to an online biographical sketch. He previously was co-founder and executive managing director of Och-Ziff Capital Management Group.

The buyer CFH Land Trust, which has initials matching that of Cypress Forest Holdings, is administered by trustee J. Scott Feeley, the deed shows. According to courthouse records, Feeley served as trustee when a different Windreich-linked trust in 2019 paid a recorded $9.4 million for a condo at The Bristol. Windreich and his wife, Christine Hikawa, have that unit, No. 1704, homesteaded as their primary residence, according to the latest Palm Beach County tax rolls.

The house the Engelbergs just sold stands on a lot of about four-tenths of an acre at the intersection of North Lake Way and Via Marila, the eighth street north of the Palm Beach Country Club. With a dock, the property offers views of the Intracoastal and the Safe Harbor Rybovich marina on the opposite side of the waterway.

Alfred Engelberg spent some 40 years as a patent attorney, according to a biographical sketch online. He and his wife have donated millions of dollars through The Engelberg Foundation to beneficiaries, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. The Engelberg Center for Innovation Law & Policy at New York University is named for Alfred Engelberg.

Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate was the listing broker in the sale on North Lake Way. He declined to comment about the deal.

Agent Gary Pohrer of Douglas Elliman Real Estate represented the buyer. He also declined to discuss the sale.

At The Bristol, Pohrer has the Windreich-linked condo listed for sale at $18.65 million. The apartment has four bedrooms and 6,246 total square feet, the listing shows.

It’s unclear whether the the house on North Lake Way will be kept intact or razed to make way for something new.

The house has a floor plan “perfect for indoor and outdoor entertaining,” Angle’s sales listing said, with a living room, formal dining room and a “sunny and bright interior loggia.” The family room has a bar, while the office offers lake views. The second-floor primary suite with has an oversize terrace, the listing says.

There’s also a lakeside swimming pool.

Other features of the house include an elevator, a two-car garage and accommodations for household staff, according to the listing.

Like many of their Palm Beach neighbors, the Engelbergs downsized to a condo at The Bristol, which stands at the entrance to the Royal Park Bridge that leads to Palm Beach. When they bought their apartment in May 2023, it had 5,227 interior square feet and another 1,966 square feet on its balcony, the MLS shows.

Agent Samantha Curry of Douglas Elliman Real Estate acted on the Engelbergs’ behalf when they bought the apartment at The Bristol. Curry also represented the seller, Teresa Mason, who acted as trustee of the Edgewater Financial Trust.

When the Weinreich-related trust bought No. 1704 at The Bristol from the building’s developer in 2019, Pohrer represented the buyer. Curry handled the sellers’ side, the MLS shows, and Elliman agent Chris Leavitt was also involved as part of the building’s sales team, which also included Elliman agent Marisela Cotilla.

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Palm Beach house purchase for $17.55M is linked to owners of oceanfront estate next door

The house at 107 Indian Road in Palm Beach is much smaller than the adjacent home owned by Tamara and Albert Rabil III at 101 Indian Road.

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Published 7:54 a.m. ET Jan. 10, 2025 Updated 8:24 a.m. ET Jan. 10, 2025

A limited liability company with the memorable name of 107 Man Cave LLC has paid a recorded $17.545 million for a house built in the late 1990s near the inlet on the North End of Palm Beach.

The purchase of the house at 107 Indian Road is linked in public records to an oceanfront estate next door owned by private-equity and real estate specialist Albert “Al” Rabil III and his wife, Tamara. They bought their 3.36-acre estate at 101 Indian Road through a trust for $49 million in 2017, courthouse records show.

The just-closed purchase of the house at 107 Indian Road — on a lot measuring nearly a halfacre — effectively squares off the Rabils’ estate between North Ocean Boulevard and the beach.

The company that bought No. 107 in an off-market deal is affiliated with Tamara Rabil’s mother, Martha M. Rogers, according to state business records.

The deed recorded Jan. 9 lists the mailing address of 107 Man Cave LLC as the Boca Raton office of Kayne Anderson, an investments firm founded by Albert Rabil III, who serves as its CEO. Kayne Anderson is described on its website as an “alternative investment management firm” that specializes in the real estate, credit, infrastructure and energy sectors.

Built in 1997, the house that just changed hands was sold by the estate of the late Lorrie S. Fromson, who died in in July at age 78. The deed shows that North Palm Beach estate-

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planning attorney Charles T. Weiss sold the house as trustee of a trust in Fromson’s name and as personal representative of her estate.

Fromson paid a recorded $4 million for the house in July 2015, property records show. With 5,477 square feet of living space, inside and out, the residence stands at the northeast corner of Indian Road and North Ocean Boulevard.

Broker Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate handled both sides of the latest sale, he confirmed. He declined to comment further.

Angle also represented the Rabils when they bought their estate new in January 2017. Built in 2016, their eight-bedroom house encompasses 26,360 square feet and looks out to about 140 feet of beachfront that includes a federally protected dune parcel. The British Colonialstyle house is the fifth one south of the inlet.

The 2017 transaction at the time marked the highest-dollar sale ever recorded for a house built on speculation in Palm Beach, property records show. It also set what was then a record for the highest-dollar purchase of any property north of the Palm Beach Country Club. Both records have since been eclipsed.

Agent Cristina Condon of Sothey’s International Realty negotiated opposite Angle in the 2017 sale.

The Rabils’ house was developed and sold by an investment group that included among its members Boca Raton-based real estate developer Robert G. Fessler and Palm Beach real estate broker Lawrence Moens of Lawrence A. Moens Associates.

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Completely renovated 1950s house sells for $15.9

million on Barton Avenue in Palm Beach

Seller Betsy Sorrell transformed a 1952 home at 245 Barton Ave. by rearranging the layout for modern living. The transaction was the third one on the Midtown street within three weeks.

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Published 2:16 p.m. ET Jan. 9, 2025 Updated 3:10 p.m. ET Jan. 9, 2025

A Palm Beach house built in 1952 but recently renovated under the town’s preservation program for “historically significant” homes has changed hands in Midtown for a recorded $15.9 million.

The Georgian-style house at 245 Barton Ave. was sold by Elizabeth “Betsy” Sorrel, a Sotheby’s International Realty agent who has renovated and sold six other Palm Beach homes since 2000.

A Florida limited liability company named after the property’s address bought the fivebedroom house. That entity is managed by Vernon Nicholas Leopard, state business records show. A man by that name, who goes by “Nick,” founded and is CEO of Accordion Partners, a New York-based financial consulting firm that focuses on the private-equity industry, according to its website.

Leopard could not be immediately reached for comment.

The house that just sold has 4,685 square feet of living space, inside and out. In Barton Avenue’s middle block — between Cocoanut Row and South County Road — the house is about a third of a mile north of Royal Palm Way.

Sorrell paid $3.9 million for the house in November 2020, property records show. She then completely overhauled the residence, which was originally designed for James Turner by

noted Palm Beach architect Gustav Maass.

“We redid the whole thing. It's basically a new house reconfigured to be workable and livable for a large family,” Sorrell told the Palm Beach Daily News for a February 2024 article about the property.

As with other renovation projects she has done, she moved into the house after the work was completed

About a year ago, Sorrell joined agents Lisa and John Cregan, also at Sotheby’s International Realty in co-listing the house with an asking price of $17.95 million, which had dropped to $16.495 million after the property was returned to the multiple listing service following a summer hiatus. When the sale closed Jan. 8, the Cregans were the sole listing agents, the MLS shows.

Broker Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate acted on behalf of the buyer. He could not be reached for comment, and the Cregans declined to discuss the sale.

The deed lists the buying entity, 245 Barton Avenue LLC, with a mailing address that matches the Philadelphia office of law firm Duane Morris LLP.

In the article last year, Sorrell said the original house “had such great bones, but all the rooms were in the wrong places.”

That meant reworking the floorplan to better suit “today's modern-living” requirements, she said.

The house has a formal foyer and stair hall with a checkerboard floor of marble tiles. The first-floor layout also includes a family room, a den, the living room and a window-lined “Florida room,” which in turn accesses a covered loggia looking out to the backyard pool. The Florida room, meanwhile, has a built-in bar with a SubZero beverage center.

“It's like a second family room — you can walk out to the covered loggia and be directly at the pool,” Sorrell said in the article.

The ground floor is also home to a bedroom suite, the dining room and the renovated kitchen.

On the second floor, crews restored the original hardwood floors in the main bedroom suite, with its terrace overlooking the pool, and two guest bedrooms. The bathrooms are finished in

marble.

Other features include a two-car garage and a full-house generator.

Michael Perry of MP Design & Architecture designed the renovation, while Environmental Design Group handled the landscaping. Sciame Homes was the contractor. Sorrell chose the interior finishes.

Sorrel’s renovation was carried out under a relatively new program created to help protect the town’s so-called “historically significant” buildings — those that officials believe contribute to a neighborhood’s architectural character but don’t necessarily qualify for the more stringent “landmark” designation. The latter generally protects the exteriors of landmarked buildings from any significant alteration without the permission of the board.

The program for historically significant buildings, on the other hand, offers qualifying property owners incentives to renovate their homes rather than to replace them with new houses. Owners like Sorrel who voluntarily participate in the program can renovate with more leeway from the town’s strict zoning rules than if they were starting from scratch.

The new owner is not bound by the program’s guidelines if more renovations prove to be in the offing.

The house is the third to sell on Barton Avenue since Dec. 19, courthouse records show.

The most recent of the other sales involved a renovated four-bedroom house built in 2002 at 224 Barton Ave., which sold for just under $14 million via a deed recorded Jan. 7. In that deal, New Jersey car dealer Walter “Rod” Rodman Ryan and his wife, Dianne, sold their fourbedroom vacation home at to banker Alpert P. Hegyi, and his wife, Cecilia, who served as trustees of a land trust named after the property’s address. Agents Chris Deitz and Michael Costello of Compass Florida held the co-listing for the house at No. 224, while the Cregans represented the buyers.

In the third recent sale on the street, a four-bedroom property at 138 Barton Ave. in the ocean block changed hands for a recorded $10.5 million. That off-market deal recorded Dec. 19 saw Susan Kirkbride sell her longtime residence to a trust. Neither she nor the trust's trustee, Palm Beach attorney Stuart J. Haft, would comment about the sale, and it was unclear if the deed transfer was an “arm’s length” transaction, the colloquial term for a sale that takes place between unrelated parties.

The house Sorrell just parted with was the second one she renovated and sold on Barton Avenue. She sold 233 Barton Ave. in 2004, property record show.

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Portions of this story appeared previously in the Palm Beach Daily News. Reporting by writer Christine Davis contributed to this story.

Palm Beach house brings $30 million, next door to one that recently sold for $18 million.

A house at 1072 N. Ocean Blvd. in Palm Beach has sold privately for $30 million, on the tail of an off-market, $18-million sale of the home next door.

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Updated June 23, 2025, 3:08 p m ET

Key Points

The house at 1072 N. Ocean Blvd. changed hands privately for $30 million via a deed recorded June. 23. A trust was on the seller's side, and the buyer was a limited liability company.

The sale of 1072 N. Ocean Blvd. closed less than two weeks after the house next door at 1066 N. Ocean Blvd. sold off market for $18 million.

Both houses are across the street from two vacant oceanfront lots that changed hands for a combined price that was said to have hit $160 million earlier this year.

Less than two weeks after a Palm Beach couple sold their North End home near the ocean for $18 million, the house next door at 1072 N. Ocean Blvd has changed hands for a recorded $30 million, a newly recorded deed shows. Both houses were sold in off-market deals.

The two houses stand opposite side-by-side vacant oceanfront lots across the street that sold together early this year in an off-market deal said to have hit $160 million. The exact price that changed hands in the sale of the two lots and the identity of the buyer were never disclosed because of the way the deal was structured.

The buyer of the four-bedroom house that just sold at 1072 N. Ocean Blvd. was Mango Leaf LLC, a Delaware-registered limited liability company, according to the

deed recorded June 23. The house next door at 1066 N. Ocean Blvd. sold to a different to Delaware-registered entity via a deed recorded June 11.

The deed for the sale of No. 1072 lists the buyer with a Vero Beach mailing address at 170 Island Creek Drive in Indian River Shores on John's Island. Property records link that waterfront house to Brian A. and Deborah B. Murdock, who bought it in 2018.

The deed for the sale of 1066 N. Ocean Blvd. next door identifies the buyer as Creekshore LLC, with a Palm Beach mailing address that matches the office of the Rabideau Klein law firm headed by attorneys Guy Rabideau and David Klein. The identity of anyone else associated with the buying entity of No. 1066 remains cloaked, thanks to Delaware's strict corporate privacy laws.

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The Mediterranean-style house at No. 1072 was sold by a land trust named after the property's address, for which Rabideau served as trustee.

Rabideau could not be reached for comment. Because of privacy rules governing trusts, no other information about anyone connected to the selling entity was immediately available in public records.

The trust that sold No. 1072 had paid $5.25 million for the property in September 2017, according to property records. Built in 2000, the house stands on a lot of about two-fifths of an acre at the corner of Orange Grove Road, about a half-mile north of the Palm Beach Country Club.

With 7,509 square feet of living space, inside and out, the house at No. 1072 has three-bedrooms, a winding staircase, fireplaces in the living room and dining room, an elevator and two-car garage, according to a previous sales listing. The outdoor living spaces at No. 1072 include poolside loggias, balconies and a patio off the family room. The property also has deeded beach access.

The house at No. 1072 is immediately north of the smaller one that sold at 1066 N. Ocean Blvd. less than two weeks prior. In that deal, the sellers were media executive Cathleen "Cathie" P. Black and her attorney husband, Thomas E. Harvey.

In a nearly simultaneous purchase, Black and Harvey paid a recorded $12 million for a substantially renovated 1960s-era house — with four bedrooms and 5,272 total square feet — on the North End at 302 Via Linda.

Black is a former publisher and president of USA Today, which is owned by Gannett, the parent company of the Palm Beach Daily News. She also is a former president and chair of Hearst Magazines who has served on the boards of Fortune 500 companies. Her husband's career in public service has included tenure with U.S. veterans and military agencies, including service as principal deputy assistant secretary for logistics of the Navy.

PalmBeachDailyNews.com previously reported on the two transactions involving Black and Harvey as well as the sale of the vacant lots sales across the street. Those lots were sold by companies affiliated with billionaire William P. Lauder, chairman of the board of Estée Lauder Cos., the cosmetics empire named for his grandmother. The empty lots at 1063 and 1071 N. Ocean Blvd. measure 2.26 acres with about 363 feet of direct shoreline between them.

In the sale of the vacant lots in February, broker Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate negotiated for Lauder opposite broker Ryan Serhant, who heads the Serhant real estate agency and starred in the television show "Million Dollar Listings: New York." Serhant is currently starring in another show, "Owning Manhattan."

Serhant also handled the buyers' sides of the just-closed house sales at 1066 and 1072 N. Ocean Blvd., Serhant confirmed before declining further comment. Angle, who also declined to comment, represented the seller of No. 1072. He also played a role in the sale of 1066 N. Ocean Blvd. the Palm Beach Daily News confirmed.

Angle had handled both sides of the 2017 sale of 1072 N. Ocean Blvd., according to records in the multiple listing service.

Harvey and Black, who declined to discuss their two recent transactions, had bought the house at 1066 N. Ocean Boulevard in 2018 for a recorded $4.15 million and had it homesteaded as their primary residence in the latest Palm Beach County tax rolls.

In Black and Harvey's recent sale of 1066 N. Ocean Blvd. and their purchase of 302 Via Linda, they were represented by agents Ashley McIntosh and Kendall Corso of Douglas Elliman Real Estate. McIntosh confirmed for the Palm Beach Daily News that she and Corso handled the sellers' side of 1066 N. Ocean Blvd. but she declined further comment.

The house at No. 1066 was built in 2003, property records show, and occupies a quarter-acre lot on the northwest corner of List Road. The house has high ceilings, a covered loggia, a two-car garage and impact-resistant glass doors and windows, according to a previous sales listing. When the house at No. 1066 sold in 2018, the layout included a living room, family room, formal dining room, breakfast area and a library with its own bathroom, the MLS shows.

In the 2018 sale of 1066 N. Ocean Blvd., McIntosh handled the buyer's side. Representing the seller in that deal was agent Ben Stein, then of Brown Harris Steven but today with Sotheby's International Realty.

The deed for Black and Harvey's $12 million purchase on Via Linda was recorded June 5. Negotiating opposite McIntosh and Corso in that deal was Rob Thomson, owner of Waterfront Properties & Club Communities. Thomson represented seller Noémi K. Neidorff, who acted as personal representative of the estate of her late husband, health-care executive Michael F. Neidorff.

The house on Via Linda has four-bedrooms and 4,305 square feet of living space, according to Thomson's listing. That house was built in 1961 and substantially

renovated in 2019. It stands on a lot of about a third of an acre at the southwest corner of Via Linda and North Lake Way.

(This is a developing story. Portions of this story appeared previously on PalmBeachDailyNews.com.)

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Palm Beach house in the same family since the late 1960s fetches $14.34M on Wells Road

The former Cochrane house was built in 1969 at 157 Wells Road near the ocean and was bought for its land value by a limited liability company.

Darrell Hofheinz Palm Beach Daily News

Updated Oct. 23, 2025, 2:12 p.m. ET

Key Points

The house at 157 Wells Road was the longtime home of the late Marjorie C. Cochrane, who shared it with her late husband, car dealer Edward Harding Cochrane.

The buyers behind the limited liability company that bought the house were drawn to the location, according to their real estate agent. A new house will likely replace the one that just sold.

The lot measures about seven-tenths of an acre on the northeast corner of Wells Road and North County Road.

A Palm Beach house that had been in the same family since it was built in 1969 on a prominent North End street has changed hands at a land-value price of $14.23 million, according to courthouse records.

The Palm Beach Regency-style house at 157 Wells Road was sold by Daniel Drennan II as successor trustee to a trust in the name of the late Marjorie C. Cochrane, who died at 97 in September 2024. For years, she shared the

four-bedroom house with her late husband, automotive executive and car dealer Edward Harding Cochrane.

The Cochranes had paid a recorded $46,500 for the ocean-block property in 1968, property records show.

The Palm Beach Daily News is the first media outlet to report the justclosed sale.

The house stands on the northeast corner of North County Road, about a half-mile north of Royal Poinciana Way. The lot measures seventh-tenths of an acre. The house has 4,437 square feet of living space, inside and out.

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The house is just down the street from one with similar architecture owned by Fox News anchor Bret Baier and his wife, Amy. The Palm Beach Regency style is prevalent on that section of Wells Road.

The deed for the sale of 157 Wells Road was recorded Oct. 23 and lists the buyer as a Florida limited liability company named after the property’s address. That company is managed by West Palm Beach real estate attorney Maura Ziska, who declined to comment on the sale. Public records cloak the identity of anyone else associated with the buying entity.

Real estate agent Jack Elkins of William Raveis South Florida, who represented the buyer’s side of the deal, said a confidentiality agreement prevented him either from identifying his clients or providing specifics about the sale.

But the buyers, Elkins said, were attracted to the property because of the size of the lot and its relatively close location to shopping and dining venues in the Royal Poinciana Way commercial district and in Midtown. He said they also appreciated the beauty of Wells Road, which is famous for its trees.

And they liked having the beach just down the street as well as convenient access to the Lake Trail pedestrian-and-bicycling path along the Intracoastal Waterway, Elkins added.

“They will build a new house eventually but are very happy with their Palm Beach purchase,” he said.

The house’s architectural elements are in keeping with the Palm Beach Regency style — a crisp silhouette, a flat roof and classical-style details, including a prominent triangular pediment supported by columns on the front porch. A swimming pool is on the south side of the house.

Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate had the property listed at $18.95 million, down from its original asking price of $21.9 million when it entered the market in November. The house landed under contract Oct. 3 and the sale closed Oct. 21, the mutliple listing service shows.

Angle declined to comment about the transaction. His sales listing described the property as a “rare estate-sized lot” in the neighborhood. A buyer would have “endless possibilities” either to renovate the house or to replace it with a “Palm Beach dream home,” the listing said.

The house is on a street once known as Wells Circle and was built as one of two homes that faced each other. The other house, at 135 Wells Road, was

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demolished and replaced with a new one several years ago.

With ties to Illinois, Marjorie Cochrane was for many years active on Palm Beach’s charitable scene. Her husband was an executive at General Motors and founded a dealership that today is part of Schumacher Auto Group, according to his widow’s obituary.

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Darrell Hofheinz is a USA TODAY Network of Florida journalist who writes about Palm Beach real estate in his weekly “Beyond the Hedges” column. He welcomes tips about real estate news on the island. Email dhofheinz@pbdailynews.com, call 561-820-3831 or tweet @PBDN_Hofheinz. Subscribe today to support our journalism.

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townhouse sells for $12M on the heels of one that sold just across the street

A trust sells a luxury townhouse at 180 Sunset Ave. in Palm Beach for $12 million, less than two weeks after another townhome sold for $11.7 million just across the street.

Darrell Hofheinz

Palm Beach Daily News

Nov 17, 2025, 5:06 a m ET

Key Points

The townhouse that just fetched $12 million at 180 Sunset Ave. has three bedrooms and 4,755 square feet of living space, inside and out.

The buyer was a limited liability company with an Atlanta mailing address matching that of Wood Partners, a developer of multifamily residences, headed by Joseph Keough.

The townhouse is directly across the street from a townhome that sold in late October for $11.7 million at 175 Sunset Ave.

The ocean block of Sunset Avenue on the North End of Palm Beach has seen two sales of luxury townhouses in deals that closed within a little more than a week of each other.

The latest sale involved a three-bedroom townhome at 180 Sunset Ave., which sold for $12 million via a deed recorded Nov. 4.

The transaction followed the $11.7 million sale of a four-bedroom townhouse across the street in a deal recorded Oct. 24 and previously reported by the Palm Beach Daily News.

The townhouse that just changed hands at No. 180 sold to Ashmont Capital LLC, a Wyoming-registered limited liability company with a mailing address in Atlanta, the deed shows. The Atlanta address matches that of Wood Partners, a company that develops, builds and manages multifamily residences, its website shows. With offices across the country, Wood Partners is headed by Chairman and CEO Joseph Keough.

The seller was the Sunset Avenue Trust, for which real estate attorney Maura Ziska serves as trustee. Stephanie Shafron also had an ownership role in the townhome, according to records kept by the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser’s office.

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Part of a Georgian-style duplex, the townhouse was built in 2016 and has 4,755 square feet of living space, inside and out. The development is one lot east of North County Road and a block north of The Breakers.

With fine millwork and finishes, the townhouse has a living room with a fireplace and a built-in wet bar with marble countertops, according to the sales listing. Doors in the family room and dining room open to an outdoor loggia and patios, all of which overlook the private pool.

The layout also includes an elevator, a den, a well-equipped kitchen and a primary suite with two baths and walk-in closets.

And identical townhouse shares a wall with the one that just sold.

Broker Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate listed the property at $15.5 million in January and in April dropped the price to $13.9 million, according to the multiple listing service.

Agent Gary Pohrer of Serhant represented the buyer, the MLS shows. Pohrer and Angle declined to comment, and their clients could not be immediately reached for comment.

The townhouse last changed hand in June 2021 for a recorded $9.75 million. In that deal, Angle represented the buyer and the sellers, longtime New Yorkers and seasonal Palm Beach residents Judith Iovino and her husband, construction and engineering specialist Thomas Iovino.

The other recent townhouse that sold recently on the same street is 175 Sunset Ave., which also is part of a duplex. With 5,581 total square feet, that townhouse and its guesthouse were sold by attorney Theodore “Ted” Babbitt and his wife, retired attorney Jessica Cheatham. On the buyer’s side of No. 175 were businessman Neil D. Cohen and his wife, Marcella E. Cohen.

Douglas Elliman Real Estate agent Chris Leavitt was the listing agent in the sale of No. 175, with Elliman agents Cara McClure and Lisa Wilkinson representing the buyers.

The townhouse at No. 175 was built in 1990 but had been substantially renovated over the years.

The two townhouse sales on Sunset Avenue were not related to one another, according to sources familiar with the transactions.

Darrell Hofheinz is a USA TODAY Network of Florida journalist who writes about Palm Beach real estate in his weekly “Beyond the Hedges” column. He welcomes tips about real estate news on the island. Email dhofheinz@pbdailynews.com, call 561-820-3831 or tweet @PBDN_Hofheinz. Subscribe today to support our journalism.

Upgraded Palm Beach house sells for more than twice its 2017 sale price

The sellers of 245 Atlantic Ave. bought the house in 2017 for $4.6 million and just sold it for far more.

Darrell Hofheinz

Palm Beach Daily News

July 8, 2025 Updated July 14, 2025, 2:48 p m ET

KeyPoints

The sellers of 245 Atlantic Ave. were Julian and Christy Bharti, who have deep ties to Toronto.

The new owner on Atlantic Avenue is a Delaware-registered limited liability company named Atlantic Jam LLC.

The five-bedroom, Bermuda-style house has 5,085 square feet of living space, inside and out, property records show.

A couple with ties to Toronto has sold, for a recorded $13 million, the Palm Beach house they bought at 245 Atlantic Ave. in 2017 for $4.6 million.

Sellers Julian and Christy Bharti carried out upgrades to the North End house, which stands on a midblock quarter-acre lot, several streets north of Royal Poinciana Way. The five-bedroom, Bermuda-style house has 5,085 square feet of living space, inside and out, property records show.

The deed shows the new owner is a Delaware-registered limited liability company named Atlantic Jam, which has a mailing address at post-office box in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. Because of Delaware’s strict corporate privacy laws, no other information about the buyer’s side of the sale was immediately available in public records.

The Bhartis sold the house as trustees of a trust in Christy Bharti’s name. Their mailing address on the deed is a house across town in the Estate Section neighborhood that closes to through-traffic when President Donald Trump is in residence at his Mar-a-Lago Club.

Originally from Toronto, the Bhartis became full-time residents of Palm Beach after buying the house on Atlantic Avenue, Julian Bharti told the Palm Beach Daily News for an August 2024 story.

The house “checked all our boxes,” Julian Bharti previously told the Daily News. “We looked at a lot of properties when we were searching.”

He added: “This home had a nice, beachy feel.”

An investor who specializes in the mining, oil and natural-gas industries, Julian Bharti is managing director of Delano Capital Corp. The Toronto advisory firm focuses on the technology and natural-resources sectors, according to its website.

The Bhartis’ exterior improvements at the house, which was built in 2015, included reworking the landscaping, adding a covered loggia, installing a summer kitchen and painting some of the window shutters a tropical pink. Inside, they “revamped the kitchen, putting in new lighting fixtures, sink, faucets and white-stone counters,” Julian previously told the Palm Beach Daily News.

Listing broker Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate had the house on Atlantic Avenue priced at $14.95 million. He had acquired the listing in late February, the multiple listing service shows, after it had been on the market for $16.95 million, a price later dropped to $15.95 million.

Broker Simon Isaacs of Simon Isaacs Real Estate handled the buyer’s side of the sale. Isaacs and Angle declined to comment about the transaction, which closed June 30, according to the MLS.

The house has an open-plan layout in which the a foyer and stair hall lead to the dining room and the family room, where a wet bar is equipped with a wine cooler. A wall of glass doors in this area looks out to the 60-foot lap pool, where there are a whirlpool spa and a cold-plunge feature.

Upstairs, a loft sitting area accesses the main bedroom suite and a guest bedroom suite, both of which overlook the backyard. Two additional guest bedroom suites offer views of the front yard.

Details include tray ceilings, stone and wide-plank wood flooring and impact-resistant glass in the windows and doors.

The house was built by contractor Tim Benitz of Tim Benitz Building. The Bhartis worked closely with interior designer-and-architect Joseph Cortes when they carried out their improvement projects.

The Atlantic Avenue deed, which was recorded July 2, lists the Bhartis and their trust with an address at 145 Kings Road. On the second street north of Mar-a-Lago, the Kings Road house was leased in October for two years at $63,000 a month, according to the MLS. In that transaction, Isaacs handled the tenants’ side, negotiating opposite the listing agents, Bobby Goodnough and Raj Shrestha of Sotheby’s International Realty, the MLS shows.

Property records show the house on Kings Road last sold in 2021 to Mark B. Murphy and Lisa DeMayo for a recorded $8.45 million.

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Terry McGuirk, chairman of the Atlanta Braves, bought a penthouse in Palm Beach for $5.9 million.

Records show McGuirk and his wife, Nancy McGuirk, bought penthouse B at Four Hundred South Ocean at 400 South Ocean Boulevard from Kevin Byrne and William Ameringer. The deal marked the priciest condo sale in Palm Beach County last week.

Christian Angle with Christian Angle Real Estate had the listing, and Crista Ryan with Tina Fanjul Associates brought the buyer.

Terry McGuirk is the longtime chairman and CEO of Braves Holdings, the parent company of the Atlanta Braves and Braves Development Company. His involvement with the team dates back to Ted Turner’s 1976 purchase of the team.

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Palm Beach vacant lot on lake sells for $50 million, exactly what it fetched last year

Seller and longtime Nvidia board member Harvey C. Jones had planned to build a custom home on the lot at 940 N. Lake Way but instead bought a Palm Beach house nearby.

Darrell Hofheinz

Palm Beach Daily News

Published 10:25 a.m. ET May 22, 2024 Updated 11:26 a.m. ET May 22, 2024

Having bought a house he plans to renovate, Harvey Cooper Jones has sold a vacant lakefront lot nearby for $50 million, the same price he paid for it more than a year ago on the North End of Palm Beach.

The lot at 940 N. Lake Way measures four-fifths of an acre with wide views of the Intracoastal Waterway across 128 feet of water frontage. The property has water deep enough to accommodate a 130-foot yacht, and the concrete dock has two boat lifts.

Jones — an investor, entrepreneur and avid sailor who has lived in Palm Beach since 2018 — originally planned to build a house on the land he just sold, he previously told the Palm Beach Daily News.

The buyer was a Delaware-registered limited liability company named after the property’s address, the deed recorded May 22 shows. Because of Delaware’s strict corporate privacy laws, no other information about the buyer was immediately available in public records.

The Palm Beach Daily News is the first media outlet to report the sale.

Jones bought the property on North Lake Way in July 2023 for a recorded $50 million and then razed a renovated 1970s-era house that stood on it.

But his plans changed. In March, he paid a recorded $74.25 million for a lakefront house at 740 Hi Mount Road, just around the corner from his home on Ridgeview Drive.

Jones had fully expected to build a custom home on the North Lake Way property — until, that is, the opportunity arose to buy and renovate the 1990s-era house on Hi Mount Road, he said in March. With Mediterranean-style architecture and cascading gardens, the house stands on one of the highest points in Palm Beach.

“I’ve got no regrets,” he previously told the Palm Beach Daily News, describing the North Lake Way lot “as a magnificent property.”

He added: "I was ready to build a new (house), but renovation is more suited to how I operate."

In a brief statement given to the Palm Beach Daily News May 22, Jones declined to discuss specifics of the deal or identify anyone associated with the buyer’s side. But he did say he is sure the buyer will build “a beautiful new home” on the property.

Jones sold the lot on North Lake Way as trustee of a living trust in his name.

The land is the fourth lot north of the Palm Beach Country Club and is separated from the waterway by the Lake Trail bicycle-and-pedestrian path.

Broker Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate represented the buyer’s side of the sale.

Sotheby’s International Realty agents Todd and Frances Peter listed the lot for sale at $59 million in late November and dropped the price to $55 million in early February. The sale closed May 21, according to the Palm Beach Board of Realtors Multiple Listing Service.

The Peters declined to comment about the sale, and Angle could not immediately be reached.

The Peters also represented Jones’ interests when he bought the house on Hi Mount Road from Candida “Candy" Burnap,” the widow of the late venture capitalist Bartlett Burnap. The Burnaps built the house as a custom home.

Jones is managing partner of Square Wave Ventures, a private venture investment firm. His résumé also includes longtime service on the board of Nvidia, a company in Santa Clara, California that designs and sells technology and microchip systems used in artificialintelligence applications. That company has seen its stock price skyrocket since 2022. Before moving to Palm Beach, Jones had deep ties to California.

The lot on North Lake Way lies a little less than a mile north of the house Jones’ trust owns at 300 Ridgeview Road. He has that home, which he shares with fiancée Robin Gillen, listed as his primary residence in the latest Palm Beach County tax rolls.

He also has a home in Nantucket, Massachusetts.

Jones razed house on Palm Beach lot after buying it in 2023

Jones bought the property on North Lake Way from the estate of the late wine-and-liquor distributor James “Jimmy” V. Tigani II, who had owned it since 2002 through a Delawareregistered company named Century Wines & Spirits Inc.

Tigani shared the since-razed Palm Beach Regency-style house — built in 1974 — with his partner of 26 years, Corcoran Group real estate agent Mark Bennett. Bennett handled the seller’s side when Jones bought the property last year, negotiating opposite the Peters.

The Peters’ sales listing described the lot as being in a “prime location” that provides “the perfect haven for maritime enthusiasts” to build a “dream home,” thanks to its relatively deep water. Such properties are in short supply on the island, not just because of the topography but also owing to the tight inventory for waterfront homes.

The buyer has immediate access to the Lake Trail from the property. Access to the ocean on the opposite side of the island is between Sandpiper and Eden roads.

The house Jones bought on Hi Mount Road has two main floors, a full basement, six bedrooms and 15,487 square feet of living space, inside and out, property records show. The house overlooks about 160 feet of lake frontage with a dock.

Agents Ashley McIntosh and Chris Leavitt of Douglas Elliman Real Estate worked to facilitate the seller’s side of the Hi Mount Road deal, McIntosh previously confirmed to the Palm Beach Daily News.

* Darrell Hofheinz is a USA TODAY Network of Florida journalist who writes about Palm Beach real estate in his weekly “Beyond the Hedges” column. He welcomes tips about real estate news on the island. Email dhofheinz@pbdailynews.com, call 561-820-3831 or tweet @PBDN_Hofheinz.

Rare lakeside house in Midtown Palm Beach brings $49.6

million on Chapel Hill

Road

A limited liability company bought the house at 315 Chapel Hill Road, which was built in 1987 and faces about 200 feet of frontage on the Intracoastal Waterway.

Darrell Hofheinz

Palm Beach Daily News

Published 10:31 a.m. ET June 4, 2024 Updated 10:43 a.m. ET June 4, 2024

A rare-to-the-market lakefront house in Midtown Palm Beach has changed hands for a recorded $49.6 million, sold by the estate and children of the late industrialist and entrepreneur William “Bill” E. Flaherty.

Next door to the historic Royal Poinciana Chapel, the property at 315 Chapel Hill Road had been listed for sale since October at $59 million.

The new owner is a Delaware-registered limited liability company named Ocean Breezes 2, according to the deed recorded June 4. Public records show the company is managed by real estate attorney Francis X. Lynch of the law office of Sniffen & Spellman on Olive Avenue in West Palm Beach.

As manager of Ocean Breezes 2, Lynch signed a $25-million mortgage document tied to the Chapel Hill Road property and based on a loan from Comerica Bank. The mortgage was recorded simultaneously with the deed.

Lynch did not immediately respond to a request for comment left at his office. Because of Delaware’s strict corporate privacy laws, no other information about the buyer was immediately available in public records.

Built in 1987, the house and its adjacent guesthouse are one of only a dozen single-family estates fronting the Intracoastal Waterway between the Flagler Memorial Bridge and the Royal Park Bridge.

Facing about 200 feet of lakefront, the buildings look west to the Lake Trail walking path and downtown West Palm Beach across the water. The double lot measures four-fifths of an acre and includes a narrow strip of land on the west side of the walking path.

With Beach Regency-style architecture, the five-bedroom house and three-bedroom guesthouse have a combined 6,438 square feet of living space, inside and out.

The estate is at the end of a short cul-de-sac that inclines toward the lake from Cocoanut Row and borders the grounds of the chapel – a position that gives Chapel Hill Road its name.

The proximity to the church and its gardens also provides the house’s family room with a dramatic view of the chapel’s grand kapok tree, a familiar sight to pedestrians on the Lake Trail.

Broker Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate handled both sides of the sale, which closed May 31, according to the Palm Beach Board of Realtors Multiple Listing Service.

Angle declined to comment about the property. But his sales listing described the estate as offering “spectacular sunset, Intracoastal and downtown views.”

Flaherty, who divided his time between Palm Beach and Remsenburg, N.Y., died May 8, 2023, at 90.

The Chapel Hill Road property was sold by Flaherty’s daughter, Anne Marie Flaherty-Shea of of New York City; and his son, Brian E. Flaherty, whose wife, Christina Ann Flaherty joined him on the deed. Flaherty-Shea and her brother acted “individually” in the sale and served as personal co-trustees of a trust in their father’s name and as personal representatives of his estate, the deed shows. Brian and Christina Ann Flaherty’s address was listed on the deed in care of the EisnerAmper Family Office in West Palm Beach.

Also on the seller’s side was Rosemary Ryan Degrado of Greenwich, Connecticut, who acted as a personal representative of William Flaherty’s estate.

William Flaherty and his then-wife, Clementina “Tina” Santi Flaherty, paid a grand total of $3.4 million for the house and the adjacent lot to the south 1989 and 1990, property records indicate. The couple, who also had a home in New York City, divorced in 2008, court records show.

Through Reynolds Aluminum, Bill Flaherty helped introduce the metal as a production material to the U.S. automobile industry in the 1970s, according to his obituary. He later

founded Horsehead Industries, which became the country’s largest producer of zinc, and the company later acquired Great Lakes Carbon, which held a similar claim for carbon. Flaherty also helped pioneer a new process for recycling zinc dust.

Among the main house’s features are high ceilings and a grandly proportioned living room with a fireplace, Angle’s sales listing said. The layout also includes a formal dining room, and the family room has a wet bar.

The grounds are landscaped with mature tropical foliage surrounding terraces, the pool and the whirlpool spa.

The one-story house and guesthouse have architectural signatures of the Palm Beach Regency style, including triangular pediments, clean-lined silhouettes, porches with classical columns, and flat roofs with decorative finials at the roofline.

The house was last on the market in 2011 with a price of $17.91 million, but the listing expired before the property sold, the MLS shows.

The Midtown location puts the house in relatively close proximity to shopping and dining venues on Royal Poinciana Way, South County Road and Worth Avenue.

Houses on Chapel Hill Road rarely enter the market. But in November, another Palm Beach Regency-style house on a dry lot at 309 Chapel Hill Road sold for a recorded $15.5 million. In that deal, Angle represented the buyer, Ryan Wilson, and the two trusts for which he served as trustee. Broker Linda Olsson of Linda R. Olsson Realtor represented Robert G. Dettmer, who sold the four-bedroom house built in 1981 at 309 Chapel Hill Road with 5,050 total square feet.

Darrell Hofheinz is a USA TODAY Network of Florida journalist who writes about Palm Beach real estate in his weekly “Beyond the Hedges” column. He welcomes tips about real estate news on the island. Email dhofheinz@pbdailynews.com, call 561-820-3831 or tweet @PBDN_Hofheinz.

Estate of late Boston developer Fineberg sells Bristol condo in W. Palm Beach for $28M

The late Gerald S. Fineberg's penthouse at The Bristol on the South Flagler Drive waterfront overlooks Palm Beach. The deal set a new building record for a single condo sale.

Darrell Hofheinz Palm Beach Daily News

Published 6:33 p.m. ETApril 5, 2024 Updated 10:27 p.m. ET April 5, 2024

A penthouse that just changed hands for about $28 million has set a new building price record for a single-condominium sale at The Bristol, the ultra-luxury tower on the West Palm Beach waterfront at the foot of the Royal Park Bridge to Palm Beach.

An ownership company affiliated with a trust in the name of the late Gerald S. Fineberg was on the seller’s side of Penthouse 23S at 1100 S. Flagler Drive, the deed recorded March 5 shows. Fineberg was a Boston real estate developer, hotelier and art collector.

The price documented with the deed was $27.99 million.

On the buyer’s side was the Bristol 2302 Trust, for which West Palm Beach real estate attorney Maura Ziska serves as trustee. She declined to comment about the sale, and no other information about the trust was immediately available in public records.

The six-bedroom penthouse is one of only two apartments on The Bristol’s designated 23rd floor. On the south side of the building, the penthouse slices through the building east to west, offering panoramic views of the Intracoastal Waterway, Palm Beach, the Atlantic Ocean and West Palm Beach.

The apartment has 12,053 square feet of living space, inside and on its balcony. Based on that measurement and the recorded price, the buyer paid $2,322 per square foot.

The apartment was sold by Bristol 2302 LLC, a Florida limited liability company, the deed shows. Boston attorney Lydia G. Chesnick signed the deed as co-trustee of the Gerald S. Fineberg 2011 Trust, which manages the company that sold the penthouse.

The Bristol’s developer sold a different Fineberg-related company the penthouse for a recorded $17.57 million in Feburary 2019, property records show.

Fineberg died in December 2022. In June 2023, his widow, Sandra Fineberg, took part in a transaction that transferred ownership to the company that just sold the penthouse, according to courthouse records.

In the sale recorded April 5, the listing broker was Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate. He declined to comment about the transaction.

Angle’s sales listing described the apartment as “perfect for entertaining” with an “oversized living room and dining room with large wet bar.

In addition to the well-equipped kitchen, the apartment has a second catering kitchen. The layout also features a waterfront “owner’s suite,” a home office and a family room.

Agent Suzanne Frisbie of the Corcoran Group represented the buyer. She also declined to discuss the transaction.

Gerald Fineberg invested in residential and commercial properties in greater Boston through The Fineberg Cos., according to his obituary. He also founded Fine Hotels Corp., which owned and sold hotels in New England.

An avid art collector, Fineberg served on the board of Rose Art Museum in Waltham, Massachusetts, and helped build its contemporary art collection.

In May, selections from his personal art collection were sold for a reported $197 million through Christie’s in New York City.

Photographs that accompanied Angle’s sales listing showed colorful contemporarystyle art on the walls.

When the Bristol was completed in 2019 with 24 residential floors, it set a new standard in luxury for condos in West Palm Beach. The building has been home to many of the most expensive condos ever sold in the city, property records show.

The Bristol’s amenities include two spas, a hair salon, a gym, a club lounge, a lakeside swimming pool and a dog run. The building offers 24-hour door staff along with concierge and car services.

The previous sale-price record for a single-condo sale in The Bristol was $21 million, which was set in January 2023 when investments executive Robert A. Garvy and his wife, Carol, sold No. 1901 on the 19th floor to John J. Nelson, who acted as trustee of a living trust in his name. Douglas Elliman agent Samantha Curry represented the sellers in that deal and negotiated opposite agent Stephen Hall of Compass Florida.

The most expensive transaction in the building, however, involved the simultaneous sale of two unfinished penthouses on the top floor in March 2019 for a recorded $42.56 million. In that sale, the late beauty-and-hair products maven Sydell Miller bought the apartments from the building’s developer.

Miller then combined the two apartments into one penthouse. Agent Stephen Ploof of Linda A. Gary Real Estate represented Miller in the sale. Curry was the lead

agent for the developer and had worked with her Elliman colleagues Chris Leavitt and Marisela Cotilla to market the two units, which had been listed separately in the multiple listing service.

The Bristol was developed by Gene Golub of Chicago's Golub and Co. and Al Adelson. * This is a developing story. Check back for updates. * *

Lakeside 1970s house with deep-water dock brings $27 million on Palm Beach's North End.

House at 1010 N. Lake Way was longtime home of the late Betty Jane Fisher and her late husband, auto-parts mogul Alfred Joseph Fisher Jr.

Darrell Hofheinz

Palm Beach Daily News

Published 4:33 p.m. ET June 17, 2024 Updated 4:49 p.m. ET June 17, 2024

Owned by the Fisher family since it was built in the late 1970s, a lakefront house on the North End of Palm Beach has sold for about $27 million, courthouse records show.

The five-bedroom house occupies a half-acre lot with about 110 feet of deep-water frontage at 1010 N. Lake Way. With a dock in the waterway, the house has two levels and 5,088 square feet of living space, inside and out.

A trust named after the property’s address was on the buyer’s side of the sale, the deed recorded June 17 shows. Estate-planning attorney Stephanie E. Heilborn, a partner at Proskauer Rose in New York City, serves as trustee. She could not be immediately reached for comment. Because of privacy rules governing trusts, no other information about the buyer was immediately available in public records.

The house was for years the home of the late Betty Jane Fisher, who died at 100 in November 2022, and her late husband, Alfred J. “A.J.” Fisher Jr., who died in 2012 at 91. He cofounded, founded and ran several Detroit auto-parts manufacturing companies, including Alrowa Metal Co., General Safety Corp. and Fisher Dynamics Corp.

The Fishers bought the property for $850,000 in 1977, the year the house was completed, property records show.

The priced recorded with the deed for the sale that closed June 14 was $27.063 million.

The deed shows the seller to be Alfred J. Fisher III, one of the Fishers’ four children, who acted as trustee of a trust in his name and of trusts in his siblings names — Judith Fisher Knudson, Christine Fisher Grow and Michael R. Fisher.

The late Fishers had Michigan ties to Grosse Pointe and Harbor Springs, but the Palm Beach house had been their primary residence, according to property records.

The property is familiar to many drivers on North Lake Way because of the four sizable topiary trees — trimmed to resemble lollypops — planted between the two driveway entrances. The house stands near the intersection of Garden Road and North Lake Way.

Broker Lawrence Moens of Lawrence A. Moens Associates had acquired the listing in early March and priced the property at $31.5 million, the multiple listing service shows.

On the buyer’s side was broker Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate.

The property had been listed at $38 million in early January 2023 by another agency, although that price eventually dropped to $34.5 million, acording to MLS records.

The house was built by the late developer Robert Gottfried. The architecture reflects his signature Palm Beach Regency style, with a crisp silhouette and classical elements, including decorative urns at the roofline.

Photographs of the interiors show clean-lined rooms with high ceilings that look out to the lakefront swimming pool and the dock. On the opposite side of the waterway, the view includes yachts anchored at the Safe Harbor Rybovich Marina in Riviera Beach.

The interior layout also includes an eat-in kitchen with a work island, a paneled library with a fireplace, a formal dining room, and a two-car garage.

The sale is one of five lakefront properties to sell in Palm Beach since the beginning of May. Those deals included: a newly renovated-and-expanded mansion at 10 Tarpon Island, the town’s only private island, which changed hands for a recorded $150 million; a vacant lakefront lot at 940 N. Lake Way, which sold for a recorded $50 million; a 1987 lakefront house with a guesthouse at 315 Chapel Hill Road, which fetched a recorded $39.6 million; and a lakefront estate built in 2007 at 10 Via Vizcaya, which sold for a recoded $39 million.

The MLS shows two other Palm Beach lakefront houses are under contract: An extensively renovated home with an asking price of $57.85 million at 200 Via Palma in the Estate

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Section; and a never-lived in house at 584 Island Drive on Everglades Island with an asking price of $34 million.

Darrell Hofheinz is a USA TODAY Network of Florida journalist who writes about Palm Beach real estate in his weekly “Beyond the Hedges” column. He welcomes tips about real estate news on the island. Email dhofheinz@pbdailynews.com, call 561-820-3831 or tweet @PBDN_Hofheinz.

Palm Beach house linked to former ambassador sells a year after it changed hands

Company tied to former Ambassador to Tanzania Michael Retzer Sr. resells Palm Beach house at 130 Cocoanut Row for $16.85 million. The house last changed hands for $16.2 million in 2023.

Darrell Hofheinz

Palm Beach Daily News

Published 5:05 a.m. ET June 18, 2024 Updated 10:38 a.m. ET June 18, 2024

After owning a 1920s-era house for about a year in Midtown Palm Beach, a company affiliated with Mississippi businessman and former Ambassador to Tanzania Michael Retzer Sr. has sold the six-bedroom property for a recorded $16.85 million.

The house at 130 Cocoanut Row has now changed hands three times since the tail end of 2020.

The Retzer-controlled limited liability company, 130 Cocoanut Row LLC, bought the property in June 2022 for a recorded $16.2 million in an off-market deal. It had previously sold in December 2020 for a recorded $9.285 million.

The deed for the most recent sale was recorded June 17 and lists the Canadian buyer as “Cocoanut Row LP, an Ontario Limited Partnership,” with a mailing address at a house at 122 Forest Hill Road in Toronto.

Featuring a second-floor veranda, the modified Monterey-style house stands on a lot of about a third of an acre. The property is at the corner of Via Sunny, a lake-block street about a third-of-a-mile north of Royal Poinciana Way, the major east-west thoroughfare in Midtown.

The house has 7,106 square feet of living space, inside and out, according to the sales listing. The two-car garage has a second-floor guest apartment..

Retzer’s ownership company has a mailing address in care of the office of Retzer & Retzer in Greenville, Mississippi. Over the years, that company has been affiliated with a number of business ventures, including the ownership of McDonald’s fast-food restaurant franchises in several states.

Retzer served as ambassador to Tanzania from 2005 to 2007 during former President George W. Bush’s administration. Many former U.S. ambassadors have bought and sold homes in Palm Beach over the years, courthouse records show.

Broker Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate held the listing and had the property priced at $17.95 million. He also represented the buyer’s side of last year’s sale.

Broker Linda Olsson and agent Jennifer Beqaj of Linda R. Olsson Inc. acted for the buyer in the most recent transaction.

Angle declined to comment about the transaction. Olsson couldn't be reached. The house had been significantly renovated by the sellers who parted with the house in 2021 — Hinda Snyder and husband John G. Snyder, a commercial and multifamily real estate businessman. The residence was then refreshed after it was purchased in 2022 by powerhouse marketing-and-advertising executives Ashlee and Chris Clarke, according to people familiar with that transaction.

The house was built in 1928 and designed by Volk & Maass, the architectural firm of the late partners and noted society architects John L. Volk and Gustav Maass.

Interior features include a formal dining room, a gracefully curved staircase, a center-island kitchen, an expansive gallery hall and a formal living room with a fireplace, according to the sales listing. An enclosed loggia serves as a family room, while the outdoor-entertainment areas include a saltwater pool and an awning- covered patio.

In the 2023 sale, agent Jim McCann of Premier Estate Properties represented the sellers, who bought a house on nearby Clarke Avenue.

When the house sold in 2021, Angle was the listing broker and agent Elizabeth DeWoody of Compass Florida handled the buyer’s side.

Darrell Hofheinz is a USA TODAY Network of Florida journalist who writes about Palm Beach real estate in his weekly “Beyond the Hedges” column. He welcomes tips about real

Designer-renovated 1950s-era house fetches $13.9 million on North End of Palm Beach

Boca Raton woman buys updated mid-century-modern house at 272 Via Marila, which was previously renovated by interior decorator Caroline Rafferty.

Darrell Hofheinz Palm Beach Daily News

Published 3:21 p.m. ET March 13, 2024 Updated 3:57 p.m. ET March 13, 2024

After a sluggish start to the New Year, the North End of Palm Beach has been abuzz over the past several weeks with real estate activity, including a sale just recorded at $13.9 million for an extensively renovated house built in the late 1950s at 272 Via Marila.

Melissa Wight was the buyer, according to the deed recorded Wednesday. She has a home in the Royal Palm Yacht & Country Club in Boca Raton, the document shows.

On the seller’s side of the Via Marila deal was a trust named after the property’s address, for which Palm Beach real estate attorney Guy Rabideau serves as trustee. He declined to comment about the sale, and because of rules governing trusts, no other information about anyone associated with the trust was available in public records.

The seller bought the already-renovated 1959 house in May 2021 for a $11.35 million, property records show. The house just changed hands for $2.55 million more than the price recorded in that deal.

The mid-century modern-style house has five bedrooms and 6,333 square feet of living space, inside and out. It stands on a lot of about two-fifths of an acre, several streets north of the Palm Beach Country Club and a few houses east of North Lake Way.

In the 2021 deal, the 272 Via Marila Trust bought the house from investments adviser Nicholas K. Rafferty and his wife, Palm Beach interior decorator Caroline Rafferty, who had overseen a major renovation of the property.

Among its features, the house has a well-equipped kitchen — described in the most recent sales listing as “the heart of the home” — with an oversize work island and top-of-the-line appliances. The kitchen overlooks an outdoor dining space near the pool.

The layout also includes a library and a wet bar. The master bedroom has its own sitting room and two closets. A second-floor space has been used as a gym but could double as a guest bedroom, according to the sales listing.

In the 2021 sale, Douglas Elliman Real Estate agents Ashley McIntosh and Chris Leavitt represented the trust that bought the house from the Raffertys. The same agents returned to list the property for sale last June.

Broker Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate acted on behalf of the buyer in the most recent sale. He knew the house well, having represented the Raffertys when they sold it nearly three years ago.

Melissa Wight and Angle could not immediately be reached for comment about the sale on Via Marila.

The latest Palm Beach County tax rolls show Wight and Russell B. Wright Jr. have their Boca Raton house homesteaded as their primary residence. He is a businessman and real estate entrepreneur with ties to New Jersey, according to a brief biographical sketch on the website for The Wight Foundation, a Newarkbased charitable organization.

A 2002 deed shows Melissa and Russell Wight were married when they bought the property in Boca Raton.

The house on Via Marila originally carried a price of $19.5 million, which dropped to $16.45 million in October before settling at $15.45 million in January, the multiple listing service shows.

The property landed under contract on Feb. 26, and the deal closed less than two weeks later, according to the MLS.

* Darrell Hofheinz is a USA TODAY Network of Florida journalist who writes about Palm Beach real estate in his weekly “Beyond the Hedges” column. He welcomes tips about real estate news on the island. Emaildhofheinz@pbdailynews.com, call 561-820-3831 or tweet @PBDN_Hofheinz.

PalmBeach’sonlyprivateislandsellsforarecord$152M

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PublishedMay20,2024,1:23pm ET

Inagroundbreakingtransaction,thesaleofTarponIslandforasky-high$152millionhassetanewrecordforlakefrontpropertiesinPalmBeach,Florida Thisdeal,involvingthetown’sonlyprivateislandanditsrecentlyrenovatedmega-mansion,wasofficiallyrecordedonFridayundertheaddress10Tarpon Isle.

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Tommy Hilfiger sells one of his two Palm Beach homes for $28M, MLS shows

The Mediterranean-style house at 313 Dunbar Road was remodeled by Hilfiger and his wife, Dee Ocleppo Hilfiger, and faces the lakefront on the near North End.

Darrell Hofheinz

Palm Beach Daily News

Published 11:13 a.m. ETApril 4, 2024 Updated 11:43 a.m. ET April 4, 2024

Fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger and his wife have sold, for $28 million, a lakefront house they renovated in Palm Beach, according to an updated sales listing in the Palm Beach Board of Realtors Multiple Listing Service. The couple still own a larger ocean-to-lake estate across town where they reside when they are in Palm Beach.

The Palm Beach Daily News is the first media outlet to report the sale of the house at 313 Dunbar Road, which has 100 feet of Intracoastal Waterway frontage on the near North End.

The house has three bedrooms and 6,175 square feet of living space, inside and out, the sales listing says. The lot measures about a third of an acre with a dock and nearby access to the Lake Trail walking-and-bicycling path.

Hilfiger and Dee Ocleppo Hilfiger, his fashion-designer wife, used their ownership company to buy the Mediterranean-style residence for a recorded $21 million in May 2021. The couple then updated the 2006 house with brighter, more modernstyle interiors featuring light woods and fine finishes, Tommy Hilfiger told the Palm Beach Daily News in December.

"We felt that it was dark and dated, so we wanted to brighten it and modernize it," he told the Daily News. "It was in need of an update, so we did that and simplified the design and the décor."

He added: "We did a complete redecoration and updated some of the mechanicals."

A deed for the sale had not been recorded as of mid-morning April 4, so the buyer’s identity was not yet available in public records. It was also unclear if the sale price reported in the MLS would match the one expected to record at the Palm Beach County Courthouse.

The Hilfigers lived in the Dunbar Road house while they completed a major renovation of their sea-to-lake estate across town on South Ocean Boulevard.

“Our home on 313 Dunbar Road is an absolute gem,” Tommy Hilfiger previously told the Daily News. “We truly enjoyed being on the lake so close to town. However, after a three-year renovation on our South Ocean Boulevard home, we are now enjoying a different experience living lake-to-ocean.”

The Dunbar Road was priced at $35.9 million when it sold, down from the original price it carried of $39.7 million when it entered the market in September 2022.

Broker Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate held the listing. Agent Gary Pohrer of Douglas Elliman Real Estate represented the buyer, the MLS shows.

The two agents and Tommy Hilfiger could not immediately be reached for comment.

Angle also handled both sides of the transaction when the Hilfigers bought the Dunbar Road property.

The Hilfigers worked with interior designer Martyn Lawrence Bullard on their update of the house they just relisted for sale.

The house on Dunbar Road has a formal living room with a pecky-cypress ceiling and a coral-stone fireplace. The primary bedroom suite has two bathrooms, a sitting room and a pair of lakeview balconies.

An interior open-air courtyard has a fireplace, while an arcaded loggia offers views of the lap pool and the Intracoastal Waterway beyond.

"We loved its Mediterranean vibe and its coral-stone columns, the pecky-cypress ceilings, the courtyard with the fountain — and of course, it was perched upon the lake with a beautiful dock," he says. "It was a great house. We miss it," Tommy Hilfiger previously told the Palm Beach Daily News.

Hilfigers have an ocean-to-lake estate on Palm Beach's Billionaires Row

A Hilfiger-controlled company owns the couple’s ocean-to-lake property on the stretch of South Ocean Boulevard known to locals as Billionaires Row. The Hilfigers embarked on their renovation of that property at 1930 S. Ocean Blvd. after buying it for $46.25 million in July 2021. The estate once was the home of media mogul Conrad Black.

The Hilfigers have been active players in buying and selling Palm Beach real estate over the past couple of years.

Last May, a Hilfiger-controlled company flipped, for $41.38 million, a landmarked house it had bought a few months before for just under $37 million at 930 S. Ocean Blvd. in the Estate section. On the buyer’s side was West Palm Beach real estate attorney Maura Ziska, who acted as trustee of the 930 S. Ocean Trust. Broker Lawrence Moens of Lawrence A. Moens handled both sides of the May sale of the Mediterranean-style house, which has an ocean view.

In March 2022, a Hilfiger-controlled company sold Fox News host Bret Baier and his wife, Amy, a three-bedroom house at 244 Fairview Road for a recorded $12 million. The Hilfiger company had bought the Bermuda-style house new for a

recorded $9 million in March 2021. The Baiers have since sold the Fairview Road house.

Tommy Hilfiger founded his eponymous company in 1985 and built it into a fashion and lifestyle empire with a focus on casual, American style. He sold the company in 2006 and it changed hands again four years later, when it became part of Phillips-Van Heusen. Hilfiger remains the company’s principal designer.

His wife has designed handbags and other accessories for her eponymous label.

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* Portions appeared previously in the Palm Beach Daily News. This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

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UPDATE: Sale of landmarked house reportedly hits $148 million in Palm Beach

At 455 N. County Road, beachfront Amado was designed by Addison Mizner and restored by the Pencer family, who sold it.

Darrell Hofheinz

Palm Beach Daily News

Published 9:07 a.m. ET June 17, 2024 Updated 9:06 a.m. ET June 18, 2024

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to include information about the closed sale of 455 N. County Road and reported information about the buyer and the sale price.

The sale of the landmarked Palm Beach estate known as Amado in Palm Beach has closed for a price reported at $148 million.

The Palm Beach Daily News was the first media outlet to report, on the morning of June 17, that a sale was in the works for the off-market transaction at 455 N. County Road on the stretch of North End coastal road dubbed “Billionaire’s Row.” The sale closed in the afternoon, people familiar with the transaction told the Palm Beach Daily News.

The new owner of the 3.2-acre oceanfront estate is Daren Metropoulos, the Wall Street Journal reported later in the afternoon. Metropoulos is a principal at Metropoulos & Co., the private equity firm founded by his billionaire father, C. Dean Metropoulos, who also owns a home in Palm Beach.

Daren Metropoulos is described on the company's website as having worked in the family business “acquiring, transforming and enhancing the value of iconic American and European brands.” He also is heavily involved in running Blue Triton Brands, which the website describes as America’s biggest privately owned bottled-water company.

Among Daren Metropoulos' other residential real estate holdings is the former Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles, the Journal reported, which changed hands in 2016 for $100 million.

A deed for the Palm Beach sale had not been posted as of 5 p.m. June 17, so its unclear if the reported price will match the one expected to be recorded by the Palm Beach County Clerk's office.

Originally designed by noted Palm Beach architect Addison Mizner, the estate at 455 N. County Road had most recently owned by the family of the late Canadian businessman and real estate investor William Pencer, courthouse records show. He died at 82 in October 2021, leaving behind wife Ida Pencer and three sons.

William Pencer was behind the entity that bought the estate in disrepair for $12.1 million in 2003, courthouse records show. The Pencers embarked on an extensive renovation, only to be forced to start the work over again after a 2007 lightning strike sparked a fire that gutted the mostly redone interior.

The house has six bedrooms and 22,741 square feet of living space, inside and on its outdoor areas, property records show. On the western half of the property, an outbuilding separates the tennis court from the swimming pool. To the east, an expansive motor court fronts the main facade of the house. With terraces and loggias, the rear faces a lawn that stretches toward about 220 feet of direct beachfront with a cabana.

Agent Jim McCann of Premier Estate Properties represented the seller in the deal, he confirmed, but declined to comment about the transaction. The Pencer family also declined to comment, McCann said.

Broker Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate, who acted for the buyer, also declined to comment.

Dean Metropoulos and his spokesperson could not immediately be reached.

The Palm Beach Daily News originally reported that the sale price could reach as high as $160 million.

Built in 1919 with Spanish-inspired architecture, the house was among the first Palm Beach residences designed by Mizner, who helped popularize the Mediterranean Revival style on the island.

Mizner’s clients were Charles A. Munn Jr. and his first wife, Mary Astor Paul Munn. In the 1950s, Munn and his second wife, Dorothy Spreckels Munn, frequently entertained at the residence. His popularity and personal style earned him the nickname “Mr. Palm Beach.”

A designation report prepared for the Landmarks Preservation Commission describes Amado as “a classical example of the Mediterranean Revival style with its U-shaped design and multi-leveled roof line.” The house was among the projects that “helped establish Mizner as the premier architect on the (Palm Beach) during the early 1920s.”

The original house was later expanded by the firm of another noted Palm Beach architect, Maurice Fatio, records show.

The estate is just south of two houses built for Charles Munn’s brother, the late Gurnee Munn, one of which today is the landmarked home — known as Louwana — of celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz and his wife, Lisa.

A Florida limited liability company named 123 LLC — controlled by William Pencer — in September 2003 paid a recorded $12.1 million for Amado, which lies about eight-tenths of a mile north of The Breakers resort’s golf course.

In September 2023, ownership was transferred by one of William Pencer’s sons, Richard Pencer — as manager of 123 LLC — to a Canadian limited partnership named 3160 Daulac Real Estate Partnership with a Quebec address, property records show.

Members of the Pencer family for years ran the family business, Toronto-based Cott Corp.’s soft-drink private-brand bottling operations and distribution network. The company did business in Canada, the United States and elsewhere, according to published reports. In its later years, the company was run by William Pencer’s late brother, Gerald Pencer, before it was sold in 1988.

William Pencer also was involved with companies that invested in Canadian real estate projects. His sons Gary, Richard and Max Pencer also are linked to companies that deal in real estate development, asset-management and investment, according to public records.

The town granted Amado landmark protection in 1980, the same year Charles Munn died. The exteriors of town landmarks cannot be significantly changed without the consent of the Landmarks Preservation Commission.

The renovation that was finally completed by William Pencer and his wife was overseen, in part, by New York City interior designer David Easton, as detailed in a 2014 article in Architectural Digest. With the approval of the town, the project moved Mizner’s original front entrance from the north side of the house to the west. The re-do also reworked the original floor plan.

Many of the rooms have views of the ocean. With a coffered ceiling, the living room has French doors topped by fanlights. Other first-floor rooms include a dining room, a family room and a “baronial library,” as Architectural Digest described it. The bedrooms are upstairs.

Landscape architect John Lang of Lang Design Group handled plans for the grounds.

The Pencer family bought the house from an entity controlled by Jayne S. Malfitano, whose father was the late Harcourt Sylvester Jr. He initially provided financing for a group that purchased the house from the Munn family in 2000 for a recorded $14 million, records show. At that time, a renovation project was planned but was abandoned in 2002, courthouse records show.

In 2003, Malfitano — on behalf of her father’s interests — sought, unsuccessfully, to have the town revoke the property’s landmark status, town records show.

The sale means the Pencer family might save money on their Canadian tax bill. The country's capital gains tax is expected to increase from 50% to nearly 67% in the proposed 2024 budget. The increase would apply to any qualifying sale that closes June 25 or later.

If the sale records at $148 million, it would be the fourth-highest single-property residential transaction ever in Palm Beach.

The priciest single-property residential real estate ever closed in Palm Beach took place last year — an off-market sale reported at $170 million for an oceanfront estate at 589 N. County Road, about a third-of-a-mile north of the Pencer estate. The ownership transfer of that property was structured so that the sale price was never documented at the courthouse, but it was confirmed for the Palm Beach Daily News by sources familiar with the deal.

The sale of 589 N. County Road beat the record set a month earlier with the private sale, recorded at $155 million, for the estate of the late conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh at 1495 N. Ocean Blvd.

In May, a renovated-and-expanded historic mansion fetched a recorded $150 million at 10 Tarpon Island. It was the sole residence on Palm Beach’s only private island, and the deal set a sale-price record for a lakefront property in town.

The most expensive single-property residential sale in Florida closed at $173 million in 2022 for an ocean-to-lake estate at 2000 S. Ocean Blvd. in Manalapan, the wealthy town south of Palm Beach. In all, 22.44 acres changed hands in that deal.

This is a developing story. Check back for any updates.

Darrell Hofheinz is a USA TODAY Network of Florida journalist who writes about Palm Beach real estate in his weekly “Beyond the Hedges” column. He welcomes tips about real estate news on the island. Email dhofheinz@pbdailynews.com, call 561-820-3831 or tweet @PBDN_Hofheinz. 6/18/24,

Fox News' Bret Baier sells one of his two Palm Beach homes for $13.5 million, MLS shows

Baier and his wife, Amy, had bought 244 Fairview Road for $12 million in 2022. They later bought another North End house for a recorded $37 million.

Darrell Hofheinz Palm Beach Daily News

Published 10:30 a.m. ET Jan. 16, 2024 Updated 10:38 a.m. ET Jan. 16, 2024

Fox News’ political anchor Bret Baier and his wife, Amy, have sold — for $13.59 million —one of their two homes in Palm Beach, according to an updated sales listing in the multiple listing service.

The Baiers had owned the three-bedroom house at 244 Fairview Road on the North End since June 2022, when they paid a recorded $12 million for it. They bought it from a company linked to fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger.

It was the first house the Baiers owned in Palm Beach, property records indicated. They now own larger North End residence, which they bought for a recorded $37 million last August on Wells Road.

The house on Fairview Road has 4,970 square feet of living space, inside and out, with Bermuda-style architecture, records show. It stands on a lot of about a quarter-acre on a road bordering the south end of the Palm Beach Country Club.

The house initially carried an asking price of $16.495 million when it entered the market last June, the MLS shows. The price dropped to $15.9 million in October.

A deed had not been recorded for the Fairview Road sale as of early Tuesday morning, so the buyer’s identity wasn’t yet known. It was also unclear if the price reported in the MLS would match the one expected to be recorded at the Palm Beach County Courthouse.

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Fox's Bret Baier buys Palm Beach house on Wells Road for $37 million in private deal

Bret Baier hosts Fox News’ “Special Report with Bret Baier” and is the network’s chief political anchor. Before that, he was the Fox News’ chief White House correspondent and Pentagon correspondent. Last week, he co-hosted three “town hall” candidate forums in Des Moines in advance of the Jan 15. Iowa Republican presidential caucuses.

Early this month, Bret Bair drew a sold out crowd in Palm Beach for a wide-ranging talk about the 2024 presidential race and world affairs at the Society of the Four Arts.

Broker Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate handled both sides of the sale on Fairview Road, which closed Jan. 12, the MLS shows. Angle also represented both sides in the 2022 private transaction when the Baiers bought the property through revocable trusts in their names.

The house was developed on speculation and completed in 2021, records show. The Hilfigers had bought it new.

The Baiers couldn’t be reached for comment. Angle declined to discuss the transaction.

The two-story house has “perfectly scaled rooms, high ceilings, and stunning hardwood and marble flooring,” according to Angle’s sales listing. “South facing French doors allow for natural, sun-filled interiors.”

The formal living room has a fireplace, while the kitchen opens to the dining area and family room crowned with beamed ceilings. Upstairs are the primary suite and what Angle's listing described as a “loft/family/bonus room.” Outdoor amenities include a built-in grille and a covered loggia facing the pool.

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Angle also represented the Baiers when they bought their house at 125 Wells Road last summer. With Palm Beach Regency-style architecture, it’s about a mile south of the one they just sold.

Records show the Wells Road house has five bedrooms and 7,798 square feet of living space, inside and out, or about 2,300 square feet more than the house the Baiers sold on Fairview Road.

Bret Baier bought the house on Wells Road as trustee of a trust, according to the deed recorded for the sale.

The seller on Wells Road was longtime resident Roberta Weiner, whose husband is Boston real estate developer Stephen R. Weiner. Among his business ventures he founded S.R. Weiner & Associates and co-founded Weiner Venture and WS Development. The latter company os affiliated with the management of Royal Poinciana Plaza shopping center in Palm Beach. Agents Paulette Koch and Dana Koch of the Corcoran Group handled the sellers’ side on Wells Road.

In December, the Architectural Commission approved a project to add new security gates and replace the front door at the Wells Road house.

Hilfiger and his wife, handbag designer Dee Ocleppo Hilfiger, had used a limited liability company named Villa Deniz LLC to buy the house on Fairview Road for a recorded $9 million in March 2021 when it was brand new. The Hilfigers own two other homes in Palm Beach.

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A 1980s-era lakeside house on Palm Beach's Ibis Isle fetches more than its asking price

The house on the southwest corner of the small island on the South End had been in the same family since 1989 and had been marketed for its land value.

Darrell Hofheinz

Palm Beach Daily News

Published 9:37 a.m. ET Jan. 8, 2024 Updated 9:49 a.m. ET Jan. 8, 2024

With dramatic water views, a house standing on more than half an acre on the southwest point of Ibis Isle has sold in the South End of Palm Beach for $16.45 million — nearly $1 million more than its asking price, according to an updated sales listing in the local multiple listing service.

The five-bedroom house at 2308 Ibis Isle Road W. was listed at its land value for $15.5 million in the Palm Beach Board of Realtors Multiple Listing Service.

Bult in 1981 on a lot of three-fifths of an acre, the house had been in the same family since 1989, when the late Dr. Irving J. Sherman and his late wife, Florence, paid $1.55 million for it. Florence Sherman died Sept. 23 at 97. Her husband, to whom she was married for 56 years, died at 103 on Dec. 4, 2019.

A deed had not been recorded as of early Jan. 8, so it's unclear if the sale price reported in the MLS will match the one expected to be documented at the Palm Beach County Courthouse. The buyer's identity also is not yet available in public records.

The contemporary-style house was last owned by the Shermans’ daughter, Andrea S. Barletta of Tolland, Connecticut, property records show. The house had not been previously marketed for sale since the Shermans bought it.

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Dr. Sherman was a retired neurosurgeon and his wife, a retired nursing manager. The couple had ties to New York and Connecticut.

The house has 7,307 square feet of living space, inside and out, of which 5,617 square feet is under airconditioning.

Broker Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate listed the property Nov. 13 and had it under contract by Dec. 22, the MLS shows. The sale closed Jan. 4.

Angle had marketed the house in both the single-family and the land categories of the MLS.

Agents Liza Pulitzer and Whitney McGurk of Brown Harris Stevens represented the buyer, according to the updated sales listing.

Neither Angle, Pulitzer or McGurk could be immediately reached for comment.

Angle's listing said the property as a “one-of-a-kind southwest-facing point lot” with wide views of the Intracoastal Waterway and the Palm Beach Par 3 golf course.

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A short causeway connects Ibis Isle to the barrier island that comprises Palm Beach. The entrance to Ibis Isle is opposite Phipps Ocean Park.

The sales listing described the property an “excellent opportunity to renovate and make it your own or (to) start fresh and build new.”

The house's covered loggia faces a patio and a lakeside pool.

Ibis Isle was originally platted by the Phipps family in 1953 and developed with single-family residences, condominiums and townhouses. The south end of Ibis Isle, where the former Sherman house stands, was developed with houses, while the north end is anchored by two mid-rise towers.

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