SC Johnson Billionaire Sells Palm Beach Home for $17M

Billionaire SC Johnson heiress Winifred Johnson-Marquart sold a home in Palm Beach two months after upsizing to a $30 million landmarked home on the island.

Johnson-Marquart and her husband, musician and music producer Mike Marquart, sold the house at 449 Australian Avenue to Victor and Julia Tolkan for $16.7 million, the Palm Beach Daily News reported.

Shelly Newman with the Corcoran Group had the listing, and Dana Landry with Dana Edward Landry brought the buyer.

Johnson-Marquart is the daughter of the late Samuel Curtis Johnson Jr., the fourth-generation Johnson scion who spearheaded the creation of SC Johnson’s Glade air fresheners, Off! Insect repellent and Pledge furniture polish. Those products helped to grow the company to a billion-dollar cleaning products giant.

In October, Johnson-Marquart and her husband bought a 7,500-square-foot landmarked home known as Villa Banyan for $30 million.

They bought the Australian Avenue home for $15.9 million last year, according to property records. Built in 2017 on 0.2 acres, it spans 3,600 square feet, four bedrooms, five bathrooms and one half-bathroom.

They listed it for $17 million in September, according to Zillow.

Johnson-Marquart’s recent Palm Beach deal marks the latest sale on the island as its busy season for real estate deals revs up. Earlier this month, coffee magnate Bob Stiller found a buyer for his lakefront estate asking $84 million. Also this month, private equity billionaire Greg Mondre’s teardown asking $39.5 million went pending. Mondre bought a larger oceanfront lot earlier this year for $58 million.

Nearby, in North Palm Beach’s gated Lost Tree Village community, fintech billionaire Ronald Clarke bought a 2.5-acre waterfront compound for $97.5 million. The seller of the estate was William Wrigley Jr., the billionaire heir to the Wrigley chewing gum fortune.

–– Kate Hinsche