New York hedge fund billionaire to buy America’s most expensive house ever – an oceanfront Palm Beach estate priced at just under $200MILLION
- Hedge funder Steven Schonfeld, 60, is about to set a record with the nearly $200 million purchase of a Palm Beach, Florida estate
- The mansion is just down the road from President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
- Schonfeld also owns a $90million mansion in Old Westbury, New York
- The current record is another property on South Ocean Boulevard, that sold for $105million
- The top price received for a home in the U.S. was $238million for a Central Park South condo
Hedge funder Steven Schonfeld is in contract to buy an oceanfront Palm Beach, Florida, estate that will close for just under $200 million, the New York Post reported.
When the deal goes through for Schonfeld, he will have the most expensive mansion in U.S. history.
Ironically, the current record is just down the road on South Ocean Boulevard, the estate of late Broadway producer Terry Allen Kramer sold for $105million.
Schonfeld, 60, already has a mansion in his portfolio, purchased for $90million, in Old Westbury, New York. It has a nine-hole golf course and his own personal chef.
An aerial view of 1415 South Ocean Boulevard in Palm Beach, Florida, where a New York billionaire is expected to close on the mansion, the most expensive in American history
President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago is just down the road from a mansion that hedge funder Steven Schonfeld is expected to have a record setting purchase
Steven Schonfeld and his wife Brooke in June 2018. Schonfeld, who owns a mansion on Long Island, is in contract for a Palm Beach, Florida estate, that will be the most costly at just under $200million
Sydell Miller is selling her famous Florida home overlooking the ocean. The philanthropist’s mansion is under contract and it’s expected to be largest amount ever for a detached home in the U.S.
The ocean property is only for the wealthy, and one billionaire from New York is set to buy a piece of Palm Beach at an all-time price
His soon-to-be Florida 4.3 acre home at 1415 South Ocean Boulevard is just a half-mile south of President Trump’s private club, Mar-a-Lago.
The palatial ocean home is currently owned by philanthropist Sydell Miller, who co-founded Matrix Essentials, a hair and beauty line, with her late husband, Arnold.
The mansion has 10 bedrooms, nearly 35,000 square feet of under-air square feet, 350 feet of oceanfront and about 230 feet of water frontage on the Intracoastal Highway, The Real Deal reports.
Schonfeld was named 18th-highest-earning hedge fund manager this year, according to Forbes. He has three children, including a 14-year-old daughter with ex-model Sidra Saucedo.
Neighbors to the ritzy South Ocean Boulevard neighbors include billionaire Citadel hedge funder Ken Griffin, who owns 17 near-vacant acres at 1290 S. Ocean Blvd.; rock legend Rod Stewart at 1435 S. Ocean Blvd.; hedge funder Paul Tudor Jones II’s home, known as Casa Apava at 1300 S. Ocean Blvd. and Stephen and Christine Schwarzman’s estate at 1768 S. Ocean Blvd.
While the Palm Beach ocean estate would set the high-water mark for a detached house, a highest price ever paid for a house was the$238million Griffin paid for his Central Park South condo.