So This is What a “Hamptons Inspired” Miami House Looks Like?
According to the broker’s remarks, this large family home at 4020 Kiaora Street in Coral Gables, is “Hamptons inspired.” The $10.9 million spread is mostly traditional, with white clapboard siding and vaulted, gabled ceilings, which are all nice and Hamptons-y. It mixes things up a bit with a few touches that are sort of modern or post-modern, or something, like a clerestory set of apertures (would ‘triangular archways’ be an oxymoron?) above the large back porch. Yet it does seem to work. All in all, not a bad package.
Excrutiatingly Adorable Little Coral Gables House Hits the Market for $675K
521 Aragon Avenue
This may be called the Miami Condo Blog, but when a house is cute, well, that house is cuuuute. Here’s an adorable little three bedroom, two bath, historic Mediterranean Revival number in Coral Gables that hit the market a total of eight days ago for $675,000. Built in 1926 and designed by architect Harold D. Steward, despite its modest 1,588 square foot size, the house has a certain stateliness to it, with a vaulted living room ceiling of ‘pecky cyprus’ beams, a fireplace, wooden floors, bright green cabinetry, and a front porch. The dining room/sun room has Portuguese tile floors, and out back the very lush backyard has a brick patio facing a pond and waterfall, with a little guest cottage beyond. At 521 Aragon Avenue, the house is in the oldest part of Coral Gables, two blocks away from Miracle Mile and literally basically around the corner from the childhood home of George Merrick, the Gables’ founder.
In Miami, houses are like land. In this town they’re not making many more of them. Condos are where the growth is, making up the vast majority of the residential real estate market, and houses in good neighborhoods are rarer and rarer.
Rumor: LeBron James Makes Offer on $49.5M Gables Estates Home
Rumors swirled earlier this afternoon that LeBron James had made an offer on a $40M waterfront home in Coral Gables. My sources tell me that the offer was made on a 20,862 square foot mansion located at 11 Casuarina Concourse in the Gables Estates neighborhood of Coral Gables. The 8 bedroom/11 bath/2 half bath palace sits on a 3.6 acre lot with 880 feet of water frontage and comes with a dock to accommodate a 150-foot yacht. The Miami luxury home was previously listed for $49.5M before the listing expired on May 31, 2010. The Gables Estates waterfront home, which was purchased in July 1987 for 2,018,000, is currently owned by luxury auto dealer Alan Potamkin of Potamkin Auto Gallery.
Homes Fit for a King – Top 5 Coral Gables Homes That LeBron James May Have in Mind
If the rumors are true, and LeBron James did in fact make an offer on a luxury waterfront home in Coral Gables earlier today, then chances are that he made an offer on one of the following luxury homes located in Coral Gables:
620 Arvida Parkway – Asking Price $24.5M. 7 Bedroom/7 Bath/3 Half Bath with 16,435 square feet of interior sitting on a 46,609 square foot lot. This luxury mansion comes with 2 staff rooms, formal living room, formal dining room, 4-car garage, generator and swimming pool. While this may be the most expensive home currently available in Coral Gables, it is unlikely that LeBron James would make an offer on it simply because it will not be completed for another year and a half. That is unless, of course, he doesn’t mind being put up in LeBron’s Future Miami Penthouse across the street from the American Airlines Arena at Marina Blue for the next year and a half.
400 Arvida Parkway – Asking Price $20.5M. 8 Bedroom/9 Bath/4 Half Bath luxury home with 13,469 interior square feet sitting on a 41,382 lot. This waterfront mansion has 180 feet of water frontage and includes a dining room, wine cellar, media room, library/music room, garden room, 2 staff rooms, gym, Infinity-edge pool and spa and Chihuly chandelier.
181 Leucadendra Drive – Asking Price $17.9M. 7 Bedroom/7 Bath/1 Half Bath with 14,946 interior square feet sitting on a 48,274 square foot lot. This Mediterranean-style home was completed in 2004 and has 270 feet of water frontage.
5 Tahiti Beach Road – Asking Price $16.9M. 10 Bedroom/9 Bath/0 Half Bath waterfront mansion with 11,533 interior square feet sitting on a 37,374 square foot lot. This Tahiti Beach luxury home has a private beach overlooking Biscayne Bay. My vote is that LeBron James decided to go with this home in Coral Gables. Tahiti Beach is known for having spectacular security. It may not be the most expensive home of the five but security must be at the top of King James’ list when weighing out his options.
200 Edgewater Drive – Asking Price $13.9M. 7 Bedroom/5 Bath/1 Half Bath home with 11,865 interior square feet sitting on a massive 130,680 square foot lot. This historically designated estate has a tennis court, swimming pool, 4-car garage and staff quarters. The lot may be huge but the water frontage is very small.
LeBron James Makes Offer on Multi-Million Dollar Waterfront Home in Coral Gables
He may be in the market for a waterfront home in Miami but we still have LeBron’s penthouse across the street from the American Airlines Arena waiting for him. It would make for a nice party pad or for nights when he’s too tired to make the drive home.
