Resi Roundup: Luxury Buyers Are House Hopping

As the temperatures in South Florida dip to the brisk mid-80 degrees, luxury real estate’s busy season is just around the corner.

Buyers and sellers are returning to the tri-county region, and in the latest residential deal roundup, moguls and executives are house hopping across South Florida.

In Miami Beach, music manager Myles Shear bought a waterfront house for $8.6 million, a source confirmed. The Hollywood Reporter first reported the deal. Shear is the manager to high-profile DJ Kygo, and co-founded the Palm Tree Crew with Kygo.

Shear bought the house at 4442 Prairie Avenue from an LLC named for the address. Built in 2005 on 0.2-acres, the 5,000-square-foot house includes five bedrooms, seven bathrooms and one half-bathroom, property records show.

Jordan Karp of Jordan Karp LLC brought the buyer, and Joel Lusky and Zalmy Shapira of the Brokerage South Florida Real Estate had the listing. The deed has yet to be recorded, and the seller is hidden. It last sold for $5.4 million last year, records show.

Shear married Alexa Shabinsky, a senior digital editor at Modern Luxury, over the weekend, his Instagram shows. He flipped a waterfront Miami Beach house to reality star Sam Logan for $12.5 million last year.

In Miami’s Belle Meade neighborhood, an executive couple dropped $10 million on a waterfront spec mansion. Records show Robin LaChapelle and Stephen Theobald bought the house at 7325 Belle Meade Boulevard from an LLC named for the address and managed by Naoshi Matsumoto and Nicolas Izquierdo Chadwick.

Matsumoto is president of Sunland Group, a Miami-based spec home developer. He is also CEO of Inversiones Matyco, an international investment firm.

Nicolas Izquierdo Chadwick of Sunland Real Estate had the listing.

LaChapelle is COO and co-founder of Arrivent Biopharma in Miami Beach, and Theobald is EVP and COO of Walker & Dunlop in Bethesda, Maryland. Their newly built 8,800-square-foot mansion sits on 0.3 waterfront acres and has seven bedrooms, eight bathrooms and one half-bathroom, according to the listing. It also has a pool, a dock and 80 feet of waterfront.

It listed for $10.9 million in June of last year, Redfin shows. LaChapelle and Theobald received $7 million in financing from Bank of America for the purchase.

In Wellington, horse advocate Manda Kalimian sold her equestrian estate for $8 million. Records show Kalimian’s 4343 Eagles Nest LLC sold the property at 4343 130th Avenue South to Rancho Blanco 4343 LLC, a Florida entity. The true buyer is unknown.

Martha Jolicoeur of Douglas Elliman had the listing, and Sharon Loayza of Douglas Elliman brought the buyer.

Kalimian is an advocate for rewilding horses in America, and founder and president of the CANA Foundation, which focuses on rewilding efforts and legislation. She is the wife of New York City-based A&R Kalimian Realty Managing Principal Albert Kalimian.

Manda Kalimian bought the 10-acre Wellington property for $1.7 million in 2012, records show. The equestrian estate includes a 7,200-square-foot, five-bedroom main house with three bathrooms and one half-bathroom, the listing shows. It also has two barns with a total of 15 stalls, staff quarters, and an all-weather training arena.