Matt Williams , who played third base for the Arizona Diamondbacks when the team won the World Championship in 2001, sold his Paradise Valley mansion for $6.5 million.
The former Major League Baseball player has been living in South Korea since taking a position as manager of the Kia Tigers in 2020.
The home had been sitting vacant and seemed like “a waste,” Williams said in an interview with the listing agents Jeffry Klein and Sela Dragan of Lucido Global Real Estate of Keller Williams Realty.
Click through the gallery below to get a sneak peek of the property. According to public records, Williams sold the 15,302-square-foot home at 5035 N. Invergordon Road in Paradise Valley to Mahmoud Majed and Habeebah Abboushi on Aug. 26.
The home, which Williams hired Nance Construction to build in 2009 on a 2.23-acre parcel, has seven bedrooms, nine full baths, three half baths and a 7-car garage. He said it took three years to build.
“It’s a great house; the bones are fantastic,” Williams told the listing agents. “It’s durable. This family will be able to enjoy it for a long time.”
Klein, who originally listed the home in April 2020 when the coronavirus pandemic put the brakes on the Arizona economy, said he expects the luxury market to continue to accelerate as fall comes around, particularly in Paradise Valley. Enlarge Sela Dragan, pictured, and Jeffry Klein, Realtors with Lucido Global of Keller Williams Realty, will be listing this home currently under construction in the Pinnacle Peak Heights area of north Scottsdale. Provided by Lucido Global Real Estate Sela Dragan, pictured, and Jeffry Klein, Realtors with Lucido Global of Keller Williams Realty, will be listing this home currently under construction in the Pinnacle Peak Heights area of north Scottsdale. Klein and Dragan said they will soon be listing another home that’s under construction in the Pinnacle Peak Heights area of north Scottsdale.
The 10,000-square-foot property will include two casitas and is expected to be priced somewhere between $4 million and $6 million, Dragan said.
