The waterfront Tahiti Beach estate owned by Lauren Sturges, widow of Miami businessman Charles M. Fernandez, secured a buyer last week.
The pending sale of the property, asking $40 million, marked the priciest contract of 26 deals inked countywide between March 16 and March 22, according to the latest Eklund-Gomes signed contracts report.
The report tracks listings of homes and condos asking $4 million and up in Miami-Dade that are included in the Multiple Listing Service. The properties spent 144 days on the market, on average.
Forty two luxury listings were added to the market, for a total of 1,254 listings.
The previous week, buyers signed 24 contracts for properties in Miami-Dade, asking a combined $270 million.
The asking dollar volume for the 17 single-family homes and nine condos under contract last week totals $295 million, according to the report published by the Douglas Elliman team, led by Fredrik Eklund and John Gomes.
The single-family homes that entered into contract last week have an average asking price of $12.8 million and spent an average of 132 days on the market. They total $218 million in asking dollar volume.
Sturges and Fernandez’s six-bedroom, nine-bathroom home at 12 Tahiti Beach Island Road sits on a nearly 1-acre property. The 10,400-square-foot mansion was built in 1994. The couple paid $9.2 million for the home in 2008. It was listed for sale in 2017, asking about $20 million. It’s on the market now for $40 million, listed with Dora Puig of Luxe Living Realty.
Fernandez died last May at age 63. The Florida International University graduate started his career in radio but also worked across industries, including healthcare, finance and e-commerce as chairman and CEO of eApeiron Solutions.
The condos that secured buyers last week have an average asking price of $8.5 million and spent 164 days on the market, on average. They total $76.9 million in asking dollar volume, or an average of $2,400 per square foot.
Last week in New York, buyers signed contracts for 29 homes, according to the latest Olshan report. Their combined asking price is more than $239.8 million, and the typical home spent 541 days on the market.
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