South Florida Sun-Sentinel Palm Beach (Sunday)
Golf legend Greg Norman’s estate on Jupiter Island listed for $59.9M
By Robyn A. Friedman
Greg Norman, the former top-ranked golfer in the world and an Australian entrepreneur, and his wife Kirsten (Kiki) Norman, a hospitality-design expert and founder of Norman Design Group, have listed their 31,820-square-foot compound on Jupiter Island for $59.9 million.
Located at 382 S. Beach Road, on an 8.31-acre, ocean-to-Intracoastal Waterway lot, the estate, known as “Tranquility,” includes a main house, coach house, pool house, tennis house, boat house, carriage house and beach house. The Normans completely rebuilt the main, pool and beach houses, and all other areas of the estate have been extensively remodeled.
The Cape Cod/cottage-style property includes a total of 10 bedrooms, 12 full baths and six half baths. The two-story main house, a completely new structure, has two 1,900-bottle wine cellars, entertainment space, a bar, catering quarters and a movie theater. There’s also a trophy room, elevator, living room with fireplace, SieMatic kitchen, two offices and two basements totaling 5,792 square feet, which house the theater and wine cellars, along with bathrooms.
Exterior features include two pools, an outdoor kitchen, a U.S. Open-sized tennis court, 172 feet of ocean frontage and 370 linear feet of frontage on the Intracoastal. There’s also a 408-square-foot generator house for the property’s generator and a covered dog kennel. There is dockage for a 150-foot yacht.
“What makes this property so unique is that it spans from the Intracoastal to the ocean,” said Jill Hertzberg, a real estate agent with The Jills Zeder Group at Coldwell Banker Realty, who holds the listing with colleague Michelle Thomson, of Coldwell’s The Thomson Team. “Normally, waterfront buyers need to choose between living on the beach or docking their yacht at their property, but here you get both.”
Hertzberg said that the size of the property, and its amenities, are also a rare opportunity for a buyer. “With a property of this caliber, you are not just getting a home — you get a complete lifestyle,” she said.
“The home was curated, designed and built to perfection by Kiki Norman. Kiki’s goal was a coastal tropical beach house that makes anyone feel like they’re on a permanent vacation.”
According to Hertzberg, the Normans were granted a special permit to expand the property. “They took advantage of it,” she said. “They did not expect to sell or move out so soon, but with the COVID crisis, they realized they wanted to travel more and spend more time in Australia with Mr. Norman’s family.”
Hertzberg expects the ultimate buyer to use the estate as his or her permanent residence. “We are seeing buyers from the Northeast, New York, Connecticut and California moving here and making these homes their permanent residences,” she said. “People have realized they can run their entire business from the comfort of their own estates and home offices, so they don’t need to have a vacation home in order to live in paradise a couple of months out of the year. They can live here full time.”
Norman won more than 90 tournaments worldwide, including two Open Championships. He defended his No. 1 position in the world golf rankings for 331 weeks, the second-longest reign in history. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2001.
Norman also is a businessman, with over a dozen companies around the world bearing his name and his iconic shark logo as part of the Greg Norman Co., as well as a philanthropist who has raised millions of dollars for charities, including CureSearch for Children’s Cancer.