Rick De La Croix Ex-Wife Selling Coral Gables Mansion

A waterfront mansion in Gables Estates asking $28 million was among the largest of last week’s signed contracts report in Miami-Dade County.

The pending deal is one of the 28 luxury home contracts signed countywide between May 25 and May 31, according to the weekly report by Douglas Elliman’s Eklund-Gomes team.

The report tracks listings of homes and condos asking $4 million and up in Miami-Dade that are included in the Multiple Listing Service. The properties spent an average of 119 days on the market.

Forty-four luxury listings were added to the market, for a total of 1,177 listings.

The previous week, buyers signed 26 contracts for properties in Miami-Dade, asking a combined $333.5 million.

The asking dollar volume for the 22 single-family homes and six condos under contract last week totals $320.1 million, according to the report published by the team led by Fredrik Eklund and John Gomes.

The single-family homes that entered into contract last week have an average asking price of $13 million and spent an average of 129 days on the market. They total $285.9 million in asking dollar volume.

At the top of the report is the waterfront home at 340 West Di Lido Drive in Miami Beach. The Venetian Islands home, asking $33.5 million, was also included in the previous week’s signed contracts report together with the adjacent home at 320 West Di Lido Drive. Both are being developed by Philippe Harari’s AquaBlue Group. Each house spans 5,400 square feet and includes six bedrooms, seven bathrooms and one half-bathroom. They’re on the market with One Sotheby’s International Realty’s Mirce Curkoski and Albert Justo.

Next is the estate at 221 Casuarina Concourse, asking $28 million. The nearly 12,000-square-foot mansion in Gables Estates has eight bedrooms and 10 bathrooms. It’s on the market with Chad Carroll and Michelle Suegart of the Chad Carroll Group at Compass. Property records show Martha Cecilia Hernandez Quintero, who owned the house with her now ex-husband Rick De La Croix, is selling the property. De La Croix is a watch marketer, distributor and entrepreneur who has worked for companies that include Hublot.

The condos that secured buyers last week have an average asking price of $5.7 million and spent 82 days on the market, on average. They total $34.3 million in asking dollar volume, or an average of $1,774 per square foot.

Last week in New York, buyers signed contracts for 32 homes, according to Olshan Realty. Their combined asking price is $322 million, and the typical home spent 661 days on the market.