🏆 Residential: The top home sale recorded in South Florida was in Coral Gables, where a single-family home at 9001 Banyan Drive changed hands for $11.7 million, or more than $1,200 per square foot. The seller was an LLC managed by Felipe MacLean, founder and CEO of Miami-based hospitality developer Yntegra Group, and the buyer was Alexandra Balogh. The more than 9,400-square-foot lakefront mansion has seven bedrooms and sits on a 1-acre lot. It has a pool, media room and built-in grill. The seller purchased the property in 2019 for $6.2 million, and it went back up for sale in February. Its initial asking price was just under $13 million. Alina De La Vega with One Sotheby’s International Realty had the listing, and Compass’ Maurice Boschetti brought the buyer.
📊 Residential: Kim Caban parted with a nearly 0.9-acre lot of residential land at 3231 Calusa Street in Miami for $9 million. Caban had acquired the parcel in 2021 for $4.5 million and put it up for sale in August for $10.5 million. Serhant’s Angel Nicolas represented Caban, and Onyx Realty’s Karla Torres Montalvo brought the buyer, Khanna Family Holdings LLC.
📊 Residential: In Coral Gables, a single-family home that was built last year at 1212 Sorolla Avenue traded for $7.9 million. The sellers were attorney Aaron McKown and Flavia Hakkers, and the buyer was a trust. The home has five bedrooms, a pool and a guest house. The sellers, who were represented by Compass’ Daniel Hysa, listed it for sale in December, for just under $8 million.
📊 Residential: In Miami Beach, a condo at 501 West Avenue sold for $6.8 million. The seller was an LLC tied to Federico Gutierrez Castro, and the buyer was Caroline Bergere. The three-bedroom pad spans about 2,500 square feet, pricing the transaction at roughly $2,700 per square foot. The unit last traded about a year ago, for $6.3 million.
By the Numbers: US pending home sales plunge in December
Pending home sales in the U.S. last month fell to their lowest level in at least more than a decade.Residential deals tend to drop in the winter months, but the past few Decembers have been particularly lackluster, according to data from Redfin. But December 2025’s total fell about 6.5 percent year over year, with only 329,000 deals entering contract — the lowest since at least 2012, the earliest of Redfin’s data.
