Weeks after the mansion next door found a buyer, an oceanfront lot in Manalapan sold for $27.5 million.
The 1.3-acre estate at 1300 South Ocean Boulevard sold to a Delaware entity. The identities of the buyer and seller are hidden. Gary Pohrer with Serhant and Nick Malinosky of the Exclusive Group at Douglas Elliman had the listing, and Marine Rollins with Miami Global Realty brought the buyer.
The property last sold for $26.2 million, records show. It has 158 feet of ocean frontage and 200 feet of frontage on the Intracoastal Waterway, according to the listing. The property was offered with plans by Gregory Bonner of B1 Architects, but the buyer will not be using the plans, a source confirmed.
The parcel has been on-and-off the market since 2023, asking as much as $38.9 million, according to Zillow. It returned to the market with Pohrer in July, asking $31.5 million.
The deal closed weeks after the mansion next door, at 1280 South Ocean Boulevard, which Pohrer listed for $45 million, went pending. The seller of that 15,900-square-foot oceanfront mansion is Rebecca Arcaini, wife of German food additive company founder Tonio G.B. Arcaini. The couple bought the 1.3-acre ocean-to-lake compound for $5.9 million in 2003, and built the eight-bedroom mansion in 2007.
It marks the latest in a string of pricey Manalapan deals, a Palm Beach-adjacent enclave that has garnered big prices from buyers prioritizing large lots and water access.
This month, billionaire Randal Kirk’s Manalapan estate, asking $90 million, went into contract. Last month, billionaire optometrist and inventor Dr. Herbert Wertheim paid $62 million for an oceanfront mansion.
Rollins, the buyer’s agent for 1300 South Ocean Boulevard, is the wife of cosmetic surgeon Dr. Aaron Rollins. The couple listed their incomplete 28,000-square-foot estate on Indian Creek Island for $200 million in November, making it the most expensive home on the market in Miami-Dade County. She could not be immediately reached for comment.