Art Basel Special: Top Miami Trophy Properties Day 3
For today’s Art Basel Trophy Property of the Day, we’re going back to Brickell, to the classic yet chic Four Seasons Brickell with a celebrity-owned condo.
Back in 2013, Romain Zago, the owner of popular Miami Beach night club, Mynt, purchased this 2,139 square foot condo with his brand new wife, former Real Housewife of Miami, Joanna Krupa for $1.37 million. They made some changes to the design, lived out their happiness and re-listed the unit for $2.5 million after divorcing earlier this year. After no buyers surfaced, the price has steadily decreased until Monday, when it was reduced to $2 million.
The property is a 2 bedroom, 2.5 bath corner apartment with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the Brickell Financial District, Biscayne Bay, Port of Miami and Miami Beach. It is located on the 42nd floor of the 70-story tower and includes such amenities as an onsite Equinox Fitness and spa, lounging pool with hammocks hanging between palm trees in the pool, and full Four Seasons’ Hotel amenities.
The Zago-Krupas are not the only celebrities to enjoy the Four Seasons. Rapper Gucci Mane recently wed at the property in a service and party that cost well over $1 million and was televised on BET, and the new owner of the Miami Marlins, Derek Jeter, recently toured options with his family. Mr. Jeter ultimately chose another building, which we will cover later in the week, but the Four Seasons Brickell is certainly a stand-out for celebrity real estate.
Which Of These Condos Should Derek Jeter Choose As His Miami Home?
Now that he’s the owner of the Miami Marlins, it is time for Derek Jeter to pack up his new family and find a place in Miami. Where will Derek Jeter live? Page 6 reported this week that the Derek and Hannah Jeter were spotted checking out rental apartments at the Four Seasons Residences in Brickell as well as the Grovenor House in Coconut Grove. We scoured the listings and found the two that are the best match for the Jeters’ family and lifestyle. In which home should Derek Jeter and family chose to live?
Four Season Residences 41F
Size: 3,928 square feet
Layout: 3 Bed / 4.5 Bath
View: Bay & City
Price: $19,500/month (just reduced from $20,000/month)
Built in 2003, this corner apartment has marble floors throughout the living area, wood floors in the bedrooms, high ceilings and a kids’ play room. It is walking distance to Brickell City Centre and has easy access to I95, for Derek Jeter’s commute to Marlins’ Stadium or to the airport.
Four Seasons Residences Miami, once the tallest in Florida at 789 feet, also has an Equinox Fitness Club for those days when Derek and Hannah Jeter want to work out at home.
Grovenor House 2601
Size: 4,026 square feet
Layout: 5 Bed / 5.5 Bath
View: Bay & Marina
Price: $25,000/month
The Grovenor House was built in 2006 by Ugo Colombo’s CMC Group, who is also responsible for the Santa Maria, Bristol Tower, Epic Residences and more recently, Brickell Flatiron. Grovenor House is located near the downtown area of Coconut Grove and offers beautiful views of the marina.
One of the nice things about this Miami apartment is that it is also listed for sale at just under $5 million, so Derek Jeter and family could stay permanently if they enjoy the home. Grovenor House also has a playground for the children, and the home is outfitted with a little boy’s bedroom as well as a nursery for a little girl, in case Derek and Hannah Jeter decide to expand their family.
Rapper Gucci Mane To Wed In $1 Million Brickell Wedding Next Week
Miami is known for over-the-top living, and rappers are known for over-the-top spending, so what do you get when you combine the two?
A wedding fit for a television special.
That’s right, rapper Gucci Mane and his fiancèe, Keyshia Ka’oir, are set to tie the knot in a live television special on October 17 at the Four Seasons Miami, which is located at 1425 Brickell Avenue. The future Mrs. Mane is a Jamaican video model turned businesswoman with a successful cosmetics line. She captured the rapper’s heart in 2010. He proposed in 2016 on the Kiss Cam at an Atlanta Hawks basketball game with a 25 carat ring.
The wedding is said to have 200 guests, and the budget for invitations alone is $50,000! The invitations are said to have cost $1,000 apiece, according to TMZ, and are mirror-inspired booklets dripping in Swarovski crystals. In addition to the $1 million being shelled out by BET for the nuptuals, the happy couple will take home an additional $650k for themselves. Not a bad gig…
For over 10 years, the Four Seasons Miami was the tallest tower in Florida, until it was recently surpassed by Panorama Tower a few blocks away. Prices of the residences range from $750,000 for a 1 bedroom up to $25 million for a 6 bedroom penthouse. The tower is also home to a hotel (where the wedding will be held), an office tower that is home to an Equinox Fitness, and a condo-hotel section that is a good opportunity for AirBnb investments.
Trey Songz Finally Sold His Brickell Key Condo After 20 Months
After more than a year and a half of steady price reductions, R&B superstar Trey Songz has finally found a buyer for his Brickell Key condo. The sale has not yet hit the public records, but according to MLS data, the final sales price was $710,000. That is a huge reduction from the original listing price of $1.05 million in 2016!
Despite the $340,000 price chop, the singer still came out ahead. He had paid just $437,000 for the unit back in 2010, so realized a profit of just over $230,000 after commissions. No word yet on the identity of the buyer, but they closed the deal with a conventional mortgage.
The unit is located in the Courts on Brickell Key, where the average sales price over the last year has averaged $436 per square foot, the same rate that the buyer paid.
The sale comes at a very convenient time for Mr. Songz, who purchased a new penthouse in Brickell Heights, which opened this summer. You can see the listing photos of his starter pad here.
Jeremy Shockey Reduces Price Of South Beach Bachelor Pad
Retired NFL star and local football legend Jeremy Shockey is eager to take his talents off of South Beach. After trying unsuccessfully to sell his art deco nightclub-inspired penthouse at The Waverly on South Beach for $3 million in 2015, he decided to give it another go this summer. In July, it was listed for sale at $3.25 million and for rent at $10,000/month.
Fast forward to today and Shockey has already undergone three price revisions on the rental offering, slashing the price down to $8,500/month. It had rented last summer for $9,000/month. He has also reduced the price of the sale offering down to $2.85 million.
It makes sense that Shockey should be so eager to fill the vacancy or unload the penthouse because he currently has under construction a large house on a golf course in South Miami and really seems excited to embrace the retired golf lifestyle over the South Beach party lifestyle. Here is a photo of the progress at Jeremy Shockey’s new place along with the listing photos of the South Beach bachelor pad.
Giancarlo Stanton Tours His Nearly Completed Miami Penthouse
photo: _nicolasbarbara/instagram
Calling Giancarlo Stanton the legitimate home run king may be premature, but there’s no reason for him not to plan ahead; after all, they say every king must have his castle. In May, it was reported that Stanton contracted to purchase a 7,800 square foot, tri-level penthouse at Aria on the Bay – a 53-story, luxury condo development located in Miami’s Edgewater neighborhood. Earlier today, Stanton toured the building, stopping briefly for a photo with Aria on the Bay’s sales and development team. The photo was taken on the rooftop of his nearly completely penthouse, which will come equipped with an outdoor pool and summer kitchen.
Aria on the Bay is slated to be delivered early next year. Scroll down for a digital rendering of Stanton’s outdoor terrace.
OJ Simpson’s Former Miami Home Gets A Fresh Start
While OJ Simpson waits to find out whether he will get a fresh start, the house he bought in 2000 in order to get a previous fresh start, is getting a fresh start. After his famous 1995 murder acquittal, he moved to Miami to live “a quieter life,” purchasing the home at 9450 SW 112th Street in 2000. As everyone knows, the quiet life didn’t work out for Mr. Simpson and he went to prison in 2008, later losing his quiet Kendall home to foreclosure. Tomorrow, he will find out whether he gets another fresh start via parole hearing, but his former home is already well on its way to a new life.
The home is actually quite lovely, although lacking character today. The house flippers who bought it out of foreclosure have done well to remove any hint of the home’s famous former owner, leaving a blank slate for the new owner. It was originally built in 1953 and renovated in 2014-2015, so has very good bones with contemporary finishes and fixtures.
Despite being located on busy Killian Parkway, the home sits on a large 1.65 acre lot, which allows a feeling of privacy. The lot also has many mature palm trees, a half basketball court and a poolside guest cottage. It was purchased via foreclosure auction for $513,200 in 2014 and was listed in November of 2016 for $1,475,000 but has been reduced to $1,299,900. The jury is still out on what the investors spent to remove every trace of OJ from the place… what do you think?
Will Chris Bosh Stay In Miami After His Career-Ending Diagnosis?
It is a sad day for Chris Bosh and the Miami Heat. The NBA doctors have officially ruled that his blood clotting disorder is a career-ending ailment. The 11-time all star maintains that he is in good health to play, but the ruling has been made and it looks like the Heat will waive him from the roster so that they can make room for a new player to take his place.
So, if he is indeed forced off of the roster, will he stay in Miami? What will happen to the $12 million luxury home he purchased in 2010 on North Bay Road? He still has $52 million left on his contract, which he will reportedly get to keep, so he doesn’t really have to work again although he maintains a desire to continue playing. He is only 33 years old, after all. What would you do?
Here are some additional photos of the Miami Beach waterfront mansion that he calls home. It has 7 bedrooms, 8 baths, 2 powder rooms and 12,000 square feet of interior space. The North Bay Road lot has over 100 feet of bay frontage.
Live Like Zaha: Zaha Hadid’s Personal Residence Hits The Market
If you are an internationally acclaimed starchitect and the first woman to win the Pritzker Prize in architecture, you do not live in a normal condo. You take a condo in a great building with a phenomenal view and you redesign the whole thing so that every room emulates your style and brilliance.
That is what happened to Apartment 730 at the W South Beach. In 2010, Zaha Hadid purchased two apartments for $2,785,000 and combined them. She took out virtually all of the walls so that the view would not be obstructed and finished it off with her own fabulosity. Now that she has sadly passed, her estate has placed the apartment on the market for $10 million. Let’s take a gander at the MLS photos and see how one of the greatest architects of our time lived.
