A mystery Russian buyer has swooped up the most expensive home ever sold in Florida, with a source telling Page Six they paid nearly $140 million in cash.
Related: PRICED AT $140 MILLION, PALM BEACH ‘SPEC’ HOUSE LANDS UNDER CONTRACT, MLS SHOWS
The newly built manse is located in Palm Beach on land once owned by former President Donald Trump. In 2008 Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev — who made headlines when he sold Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi” for $450 million — bought it for $95 million. He razed the house and sold three adjacent lots for the combined price of $108.2 million, according to reports.
The newly constructed, 21,000 square feet “spec” house sits on one of the lots and was designed by architect William M. Boyle of Boyle Architecture and features a pool and guesthouse. It went under contract less than 24 hours after the mystery buyer toured the home, a source tells us.
The buyer was represented by celebrity broker Ryan Serhant. Serhant, who just published the book “Big Money Energy,” also recently sold the most expensive condo, a $33 million penthouse at Miami’s Arte Surfeside (where Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are currently renting).
