Bloomberg Businessweek - USA (2020-01-27)

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200 Regents

Park

Price: $11 million

Square feet: 5,450

Bedrooms: 6

Bathrooms: 7 full, 1 half

Acres: 0.71

Last year the house’s owners

finished a gut renovation and

redecoration led by interior

designer Leta Austin Foster.

“She did every inch of it,”

says Sotheby’s broker Jeff

Cloninger, who represents the

listing. “There’s no romance in

old plumbing and old wiring,

so all that kind of stuff behind

the scenes got done, and

then everything else that

was a classical feature of

this Clarence Mack [house]

was enhanced.” The ceiling

heights, volume of rooms, and

elaborate details, he says,

“are tremendous. It’s a true

Palm Beach house.” Even the

bedrooms formerly for staff

above the garage have been

redesigned as a children’s

suite. Outside there’s a covered

terrace, pool, and fruit trees.

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145

Woodbridge

Road

V

Price: $6.6 million

Square feet: 3,564

Bedrooms: 5

Bathrooms: 5

Acres: 0.31

“It was just redone,” says its

broker, Hilary Musser. It has

“brand-new everything,” like the

other houses on Woodbridge,

she notes, and “comes with

an automatic membership to

Mar-a-Lago,” a vestige of when

Trump was converting the

property into a private club and

needed to get approval from

his neighbors. Initiation fees

are waived for Woodbridge

residents, though they still

have to pay annual dues. “A

Mar-a-Lago membership has

become a premium item in this

town,” she says. “A lot of people

can’t get in now.”

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1,000 STEPS

CARLOS DIAZ/PELICAN PIX (500 REGENTS PARK). COURTESY HILARY MUSSER REAL ESTATE (145 WOODBRIDGE). ANDY FRAME FOR SOTHEBY’S INTERNATIONAL REALTY (200 REGENTS PARK)