In the latest roundup of South Florida luxury residential deals, a convicted Medicare fraudster, a hospitality heiress and the wife of a pharma executive sold homes, while a developer bought one.
Closings spanned Miami Beach to Jupiter, and ranged in price from $10 million to $14.5 million.
Miami Beach
In Miami Beach, Midtown Capital CEO Alejandro Velez sold a house for $10.6 million to James Curnin.
Velez’s J&L Pine Tree Lane, a Florida entity, sold the house at 6666 Pine Tree Lane on La Gorce Island, the buyer’s agent, Jordan Karp with Jordan Karp LLC, confirmed. The buyer is Curnin, according to Traded Miami.
Jill and Danny Hertzberg with the Jills Zeder Group at Coldwell Banker Realty had the listing.
The deal follows weeks after Curnin, a developer and CEO of Clara Homes, and his wife, Jennifer Halegua Curnin, sold their waterfront La Gorce Island mansion for $60 million.
The last recorded sale of the Pine Tree Lane home was for $1 million in 2001, property records show. The current house was built in 2013 on 0.3 acres and spans 3,900 square feet, with four bedrooms, four bathrooms, one half-bathroom and a pool.
It hit the market for $12 million in May, according to Zillow.
Fort Lauderdale
In Fort Lauderdale, a businessman convicted of a $25 million Medicare fraud scheme sold his oceanfront home for $11.7 million.
Records show Daniel Hurt sold the house at 2416 North Atlantic Boulevard to Farideh Sharifi of McLean, Virginia.
Hurt was sentenced in May to 10 years in federal prison for conducting Medicare fraud schemes in Florida, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). He was also ordered to pay $97 million in restitution and $30 million from the sale of his yacht, the release shows. In a separate civil case, he agreed to pay $27 million to resolve allegations that he violated the False Claims Act, another DOJ release shows.
Hurt bought the Fort Lauderdale house for $8.8 million in 2021, property records show. It was built on 0.2 acres in 2004 and spans 7,300 square feet, with five bedrooms, five bathrooms and two half-bathrooms, according to records.
Also in Fort Lauderdale, a hospitality heiress sold her waterfront mansion for $10 million.
Records show Linda Gill and Walter Morgan sold their house at 1739 Southeast 11th Street to Tonia Irion, the co-founder of an e-waste recycling company.
Gill is the daughter of George “Bob” Gill Jr., the founder of Gill Construction Company and Gill Hotels Company. He developed six oceanfront hotels with more than 1,000 rooms in Fort Lauderdale in the post-World War II era, including the Sheraton Yankee Clipper, Sheraton Yankee Trader and Jolly Roger, according to published reports.
Gill and Morgan bought the 0.3-acre Southeast 11th Street property in 2013 for $1.7 million, records show. They built the 8,400-square-foot mansion in 2016. It includes seven bedrooms, six bathrooms, one half-bathroom, a pool and 120 feet of waterfront, according to records and the listing.
It hit the market for $14.8 million in 2023, Zillow shows.
Tim Elmes with Compass had the listing, and Keith Rowand with the Bascombe Brokerage Company brought the buyer.
Jupiter
In Jupiter’s gated Bears Club, the wife of a pharma executive sold a mansion for $14.5 million.
Records show Melissa Simmons, the wife of pharma executive David Simmons, sold the house at 107 West Bears Club Drive to the Edelweiss Land Trust managed by James Langer.
David Simmons is chairman and CEO of Wilmington, North Carolina-based PPD, a subsidiary of Thermo Fisher Scientific. He and his wife bought a different Bears Club mansion for $13.4 million from Johnson & Johnson heirs last year.
Records show they bought the 107 West Bears Club Drive house for $5.7 million in 2020. It was built on 0.8 acres in 2010 and spans more than 10,100 square feet with six bedrooms, eight bathrooms, two half-bathrooms, a gym, theater and wine room, records and the listing show.
They listed it for $16 million in May, Zillow shows.
