Yet Another Luxury Sale! 27 Star Island Drive Sells For $10.75M

27 Star Island Drive

This has been quite a week for the luxury real estate market in Miami.  Tuesday a condo at Continuum South Beach sold for $6.5M; Wednesday a luxury, waterfront home on Hibiscus Island closed for $9.35M and today I discovered that a waterfront home on Star Island sold for $10.75M.  The sale closed Monday but the status in the MLS wasn’t changed until earlier this afternoon.  The 12 bedroom/13.5 bath waterfront estate for sale in Miami resides on a 40,000 square foot lot and has 15,000 square feet of living space, a bayfront swimming pool and a boat dock with 100 feet of water frontage.  The property sold in 300 days at a 17 percent discount from its initial asking price of $12.95M.  The estate was previously purchased in 1999 for $5.9M.

27 Star Island

27 Star Island

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guest house

Say It Aint So “O”

Shaquille O'Neal

Yahoo News! reported earlier today that there are rumors that Shaquille O’Neal will be traded to the Phoenix Suns. I hope these rumors don’t prove to be true but it does sound like the Miami Heat will part ways with Shaq in the near future. I think everyone will agree that Shaquille O’Neal has been a great addition to the Miami community. He will definitely be missed.

Shaquille O’Neal’s Miami luxury home on Star Island, is currently on the market for $32M. There were rumors on November 1, 2007, from the South Beach Real Estate Blog that Alex Rodriguez was looking to buy Shaq’s humble abode. I heard from other sources that the deal fell apart because Alex Rodriguez’s wife wanted to be closer to her family in Coral Gables.

I haven’t fully thought this out yet, but I may, (still need to think about this one), consider stepping outside of my own personal boundaries of only listing condos and consider listing a Star Island luxury home like Shaq’s if his listing agreement expires before his home gets sold. Don’t hold me to this though because I am only contemplating it. I’m a very niche-oriented person so if I don’t return your phone calls Shaq, don’t hold it against me. I need a few days to think this one through.