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Will the price record be broken?
A residential complex in front of the ocean in Florida, which includes a huge main house and two additional apartments (also large), a marina for yachts and a beach strip, is currently being offered for sale at a record price of 295 million dollars (equivalent to more than NIS 1.1 billion).
This is the most expensive residential property ever offered for sale in the US.
Until a buyer is found who is wealthy enough to agree to pay the price - the current record holder is the manager of the Citadel hedge fund, Ken Griffin, who is considered among the 50 richest people in the world. In 2019, Griffin paid $240 million For a penthouse in the Central Park South tower in Manhattan, New York.
The luxury property is located at the end of the Gordon Point peninsula in Naples, Florida, and consists of three houses and a beach strip. The main house is 1,700 square meters and includes six bedrooms and an indoor pool.
The second house was built in 1990;
It is 510 square meters and has five bedrooms and an outdoor pool. The last house was added in 2013, and it also includes a pool. The family is interested in selling the three properties together to the same buyer. According to the real estate agent who is responsible for the sale, the size and location of the properties justify the The highest asking price.
Furthermore, she noted that the houses were built to a high quality and survived the hurricane Ian that hit the area in 2022 almost unscathed.
However, she added that it is likely that the buyers will ask to renovate the property.
"Anyone who buys a property at that price will want to make it their own," she told the Wall Street Journal.
According to estimates, at least six houses can be built in the area.
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The property is being offered for sale by the family of John Donahue (not the CEO of Nike) who in 1985 paid only one million dollars for a 19.5 dunam plot of land with only a fisherman's cabin on it. A decade later, Donahue and his wife purchased adjacent plots and expanded the area they own to -242 dunams, on which they built a number of houses intended for use by their 13 children, 84 grandchildren and 175 great-grandchildren.
Donahue died in 2017, and his wife 5 years later. Now, the heirs have decided to sell 36 dunams of the area, which as mentioned includes three houses and a marina for yachts and a strip of beach that stretches for 500 meters.
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