Nicole Martin and Anthony Lopez with 555 Reinante Avenue (Getty, Jorge Chao/One Sotheby’s Worldwide Realty)
A “Real Housewives” pair bought a waterfront estate in Coral Gables that they strategy to customise for their family members, just after promoting their nearby mansion to Jeff Bezos’ mom and dad for $44 million.
Legal professional Anthony Lopez and his fiancée, anesthesiologist Dr. Nicole Martin, compensated $21.5 million for the 10,860-sq.-foot, seven-bedroom property at 555 Reinante Avenue, assets documents display. Martin is on Bravo’s “The Serious Housewives of Miami.” Lopez is a shareholder at Marin, Eljaiek, Lopez & Martinez, a Coconut Grove-based mostly regulation organization.
Mercedes and Rodolfo Hernandez offered the 1-acre estate, which includes 435 toes of water frontage and a 75-foot dock. The Hernandezes compensated $6.1 million for the house in 2012 and had the house concluded in 2016. The Coral Gables home will come with a lengthy listing of features: a chef’s kitchen, house workplace, wine cellar, bar, and a backyard with a vacation resort-fashion pool, outdoor kitchen area, cabana and fireplace pit.
But the prospective buyers, who paid all dollars for the residence, strategy to spend about $10 million on a gut-renovation of the estate to make it their have, Lopez verified. Manny Varas of MV Team is predicted to comprehensive the renovation by the finish of next yr.
One particular Sotheby’s Worldwide Realty’s Saddy Abaunza Delgado represented the sellers. Dennis Carvajal of the exact brokerage represented the consumers. The estate hit the industry in December for $15.5 million and was re-listed in Oct for $21.5 million.
In July, Lopez and Martin bought their almost 13,000-sq.-foot estate at 9501 Journeys Finish Lane to Bezos’ mother, Jackie, and his stepfather, Mike, for $44 million, The True Deal initial noted. That was in addition to the $34 million that Jackie and Mike Bezos compensated for the adjacent household at 9475 Journeys Stop Street. Varas also renovated the 9501 Journeys Stop Lane assets.
Varas mentioned the renovation contains changing the flooring, lighting, bogs and kitchens making a 1,000-sq.-foot wander-in closet for Martin and a around 600-sq.-foot closet for Lopez and expanding an present dock and incorporating yet another 100-foot dock.
The property’s peninsula-like shape, with three sides of waterfront, was desirable to the prospective buyers. Lopez, a pilot, said he will operate on introducing a floating seaplane dock.
“I’ve been dying to get into seaplanes,” Lopez said.
