Inside former Apple CEO John Sculley’s plans for his $26M Palm Beach estate

John Sculley, the former CEO of Apple, wants to expand his Palm Beach estate.

The tech mogul is proposing an addition to the main house, a new guest house, as well as a new pool and landscaping for the property at 1214 North Ocean Boulevard. The Palm Beach Architectural Commission will review Sculley’s plans at its meeting next Wednesday. 

Sculley hired Michael Perry’s Palm Beach-based MP Design & Architecture as the architect for the project, and commissioned West Palm Beach-based Nievera Williams Design for the landscape, the plans show. 

The plans include a 2,725-square-foot addition for the existing house, and a 1,800-square-foot guest house. No demolition will take place at the property, according to planning documents. 

The reimagining of the ocean-facing property comes more than a year after Sculley and his wife, Diane Sculley, bought the adjacent property at 110 Mockingbird Trail for $11.4 million. The Sculleys had bought their North Ocean Boulevard house for $15 million in 2018. In total, they’ve spent $26.4 million on this 1-acre assemblage. 

Across South Florida, wealthy buyers have been acquiring neighboring properties to build larger compounds and estates. The more-is-more approach comes as the affluent are prioritizing space, privacy and at-home amenities like pools, gyms and theaters. 

Larger estates are particularly in demand in Palm Beach, where prices for ultra-luxury homes keep growing. Jeanne Siegel, the widow of media magnate Herbert Siegel, sold her nearly 1-acre lakefront estate for $51.6 million earlier this month. The season’s biggest sale is still spec developer Todd Glaser’s $152 million sale of Tarpon Island.