Two mansions, one deal
Texan forks over $25M.
Two South Florida mansions — one in Fort Lauderdale; the other, Manalapan — have been sold to an unidentified buyer from Texas for a combined total of more than $25 million.
Steven Solomon, of Douglas Elliman Real Estate, represented the buyer in both deals, which closed May 19, and the seller on the Fort Lauderdale house.
“Each of these luxurious residences undoubtedly offer exceptional investment opportunities that our buyer recognized,” Solomon wrote inanemailto theSunSentinel. “The buyer was particularly attracted to the significantwater frontage, ample acreage and refined finishes of both homes.”
The registered deed belonging to a home at 2900 NE 37th St. in Fort Lauderdale shows that Esther Lambert sold the home to Christy 2017 LP, a Texas corporation. David G. Drumm is listed as the registered agent. Drumm, a partner at Carrington Coleman, a Dallas law firm, did not immediately respond to a telephone call and email.
The Fort Lauderdale sale, at $11.8 million, sets the record as the most expensive Fort Lauderdale Intracoastal single-family home sale in the past three years, according to a Douglas Elliman news release.
The Fort Lauderdale mansion, built in 2004, has seven bedrooms and 16 bathrooms. It occupies one acre and features a 102-foot pool with swim-up grilling station and water slide, aswell as awaterfall and grotto. The interior showcases awet bar, ballet room, martial arts room, beauty salon and a two-story foyer with twin staircases. There is also a grand lodge-style gathering room with a fireplace and built-in fish tank.
BrowardCountyproperty records show that Esther Lambert, and her then-husband, Daniel, bought the home in 2000 for $1.25 million. Esther Lambert received full ownership of the home for $7 million in 2009, after the couple divorced.
Although no deed of sale yet appears in Palm Beach County court records for the Manalapan transaction, Solomon says he also represented the same buyer in the $13.5 million sale. Gary Pohrer and Michael Costello, also of Douglas Elliman, worked with the seller.
Located at 3090 S. Ocean Blvd., the house features a theater room, pool, fitness roomand wine cellar, as well as a private dock and boat lift. There is also a separate oceanfront