The Palm Beach property market has been skyrocketing, and this has inspired at least one disgraced billionaire casino mogul to cash in. The Palm Beach property that made Steve Wynn more than $5 million in three months. (Image: Palm Beach Daily News) According to the Palm Beach Daily News , Steve Wynn just made a $5.2 million selling a mansion just three months after he bought it.
A company controlled by Wynn, 78, acquired the luxury lakefront property in December for $18.4 million. It sold this week for $23.68 million. Palm Beach Real-Estate Boom
The exclusive enclave that is home to Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club has long been a haven for the super-rich and never more so than now. The pandemic has triggered an exodus of America’s wealthiest from its COVID-plagued cities. And they’re all heading for Florida and “the Island,” drawn by the promise of sun, golf, and zero income taxes.
“Anyone with money is fleeing New York and coming here,” Guy Clark, an agent with Douglas Elliman Real Estate, told Bloomberg recently. “It’s a seller’s market like I’ve never experienced.”
The property Wynn just sold is a 7,273-square-foot Mediterranean-style home that sits on the Intracoastal Waterway with 155 feet of water frontage and a private dock. Unusually, it has more bathrooms (five) than bedrooms (four). It also has a glass wine cellar, a fireplace, and an elevator, while outside there’s a covered balcony, a 40-foot pool with a sun shelf, and a spa.
Built in 2020, it had never been lived in when Wynn bought it. And that’s probably still the case. Wynn certainly never lived there: his main residence is three miles south at 1960 S. Ocean Blvd.
Last month, he bought another lakeside house, across town at North Lake Way, for $49 million, which suggests flipping Palm Beach mansions is Wynn’s new thing. Here, after all, is man who made his billions flipping Las Vegas Strip resorts like the Mirage, Treasure Island, and the Bellagio. Living Le Rȇve
Wynn relocated to Florida shortly after explosive allegations of sexual misconduct towards female staff forced him to sell his 11.8 percent stake in Wynn Resorts for $2.1 billion.
He also sold his mansion in Summerlin, and, more recently, listed his sprawling Beverly Hills estate for an extraordinary $110 million.
The man who reinvented Las Vegas has reinvented himself as an art dealer and for the past year or more has run a gallery on the second floor of The Esplanade on Worth Avenue, Palm Beach’s famous upscale shopping district.
The longtime collector of fine art sells multimillion dollar artworks, including Picassos, Matisses and Warhols, through the gallery and via his website, sierrafineartllc.com.
His new career got off to a bad start when a Picasso (“Le Marin”) he hoped to auction at Christies was damaged after being hit by a rogue paint roller.
It was the second time Wynn has clobbered a Picasso. In 2006, he famously put his right elbow through the canvas of “Le Rȇve” while showing it off in his office, […]
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