Miami Marlins player Avisaíl García scored a new home in Coral Gables for $9 million.
The Major League Baseball right fielder, whose full name is Avisaíl Antonio García Yaguarin, and his wife Anakarina Jaspe Paramo, acquired the 7,600-square-foot, seven-bedroom estate at 5255 Snapper Creek Road, property records show. They financed their purchase with a $5.6 million mortgage from U.S. Bank.
Lucas Andreika, who shares the same name as an analyst at New York-based Anomaly Capital Management, sold the Snapper Creek Lakes home. It was completed in 2020 and sits on a 1.1-acre lot. The Coral Gables property was most recently asking about $10.5 million with the Corcoran Group’s Bradley Cooper. Cooper also represented the buyer.
García signed a four-year, $53 million contract with the Marlins in late 2021. Before that, he played for the Detroit Tigers, Chicago White Sox, Tampa Bay Rays and the Milwaukee Brewers.
His new home is near Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, south of the waterfront gated communities Gables Estates and Cocoplum. It sold for a 14 percent discount off the asking price, but at a markup compared to the previous sale price. The seller paid $7.4 million for the home in 2021.
The property, with seven bathrooms and two half-bathrooms, has a custom kitchen, and a private primary suite with a balcony and spa bath in its own wing of the house.
Last month, Leon Medical Centers boss Benjamin Leon III sold a 1-acre waterfront lot nearby for $10.4 million, in an off-market deal.
Price reductions have become common across South Florida, including in Coral Gables.
Last month, top NBA agent Jeff Schwartz and his wife Natalie sold their estate in the same community as García’s for $12.4 million, about 10 percent below the $14 million asking price. Also in March, self-storage mogul Jay Massirman sold his Coral Gables home for a discounted $10 million.
Nearby, trial attorney John Ruiz sold one of his waterfront Coral Gables mansions for $30 million in January, a significant discount from the $45 million he originally sought for the property.