🏆 Residential: The top home sale recorded in South Florida was in Palm Beach, where a nearly 9,000-square-foot mansion at 115 Via La Selva sold for $43.3 million. The sellers were a trust tied to Philip and Catherine Korsant, and the buyer was Thomas Swan, co-CEO and director of The Swan Group, which owns manufacturing businesses and commercial real estate. Philip Korsant was an executive at Ziff Davis Publishing and founded the family office Long Light Capital. The Korsants purchased the property in 2017 for $14 million. Built in 1928, it sits on a 0.8-acre lot and has eight bedrooms, nine bathrooms, three half-bathrooms, a gym, a pool and a guest house. The home went on the market in November with an asking price of $49.5 million. Suzanne Frisbie with Corcoran represented the Korsants.
📊 Residential: In Miami beach, actor and director Daisy Chaplin parted with a 9,000-square-foot, waterfront home at 6000 North Bay Road for $31.5 million. The property had belonged to her late father, the Broadway director and producer Harold Prince. The mansion has eight bedrooms and eight and a half bathrooms. Dina Goldentayer represented the seller, and Sam Kafin of the Kafin-Kessler Group at Compass brought the buyer, an LLC managed by attorney Charles Ratner.
📊 Residential: Also along North Bay Road in Miami Beach, Keith Menin, the co-founder of Menin Hospitality, sold a home at 5300 North Bay Road for $27 million. The buyer was a trust. The 5,000-square-foot, waterfront residence has four bedrooms and four and a half baths, and a guest house has another three bedrooms and three bathrooms. Menin purchased it in 2024 for $16.1 million. Marko Gojanovic, Reid Heidenry and Roberto Quiroz with the MR Luxury Group at One Sotheby’s International Realty had the listing. The home’s most recent asking price was $28 million.
📊 Residential: Entrepreneurs Duncan and Renea Dayton offloaded a home at 302 West San Marino Drive in Miami Beach for $11.3 million. The buyer was an LLC tied to Thomas Boixel, the founder and CEO of Boixel Investments. The 3,200-square-foot home has three bedrooms and three and a half bathrooms. Its last asking price was $13.9 million. Nelson Gonzalez with BHHS EWM Realty represented both sides of the sale.
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