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South Florida’s top deals: Developer Michael Klinger sells Golden Beach home for $27M

TRD reports the most important transactions for Friday, Jan. 9, 2026

194 South Island Drive in Golden Beach with Saber South's Michael Klinger

🏆 Residential: The most expensive home sale recorded in South Florida came in at $27.1 million, for a waterfront home at 194 South Island Drive in Golden Beach. The sellers were developer Michael Klinger and his wife, Michelle Frohlich-Klinger, and the buyer was Atlantis LLC. The home, built last year, has six bedrooms across more than 7,600 square feet. The transaction works out to more than $3,500 per square foot. The property has six bathrooms, two half baths, a balcony and a pool among its amenities. The sellers put the home on the market in April, with an asking price of $35 million. Douglas Elliman’s Dina Goldentayer and Joel Lusky with the Brokerage South Florida Real Estate had the listing, and Coldwell Banker’s Jonathan Mann brought the buyer.

📊 Residential: Kashayar Pashootan, founder and CEO of First Avenue Investment Counsel in Canada, and his wife Paige Pashootan scooped up a single-family, waterfront home at 1844 Daytonia Road in Miami Beach for $10.2 million. The seller, Isabelle Parize, CEO of French luggage and accessories company Delsey, had purchased the site in 2014 for $2 million; the home on the property was built in 2021. It has five bedrooms, five and a half baths and a pool. Michael LeDuc with One Sotheby’s International Realty brokered the transaction, which pencils out to just over $1,900 per square foot. The home was listed in August 2024 for $16.9 million.

📊 Residential: For about $10.1 million, or about $2,600 per square foot, Mark Notkin, a portfolio manager at Fidelity Investments, purchased a condo at The Estates at Acqualina at 17901 Collins Avenue in Sunny Isles Beach. The unit’s seller was an LLC managed by Gregory P. Back. The 3,800-square-foot, oceanfront pad has four bedrooms and seven and a half baths. Yansy Checa with Douglas Elliman represented the seller, and Anna Sherrill with One Sotheby’s International Realty represented the buyer.

📊 Residential: In Jupiter, a single-family home at 5387 Pennock Point Road changed hands for $9 million. The sellers were Dr. Robin Sykes, a plastic surgeon, and Dr. Thomas Rowe, a general surgeon, and the buyer was SSW Holdings LLC. The couple had owned the property since 1990, when they purchased it for $490,000. The transaction appears to have been off market.

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