South Florida brokers are representing private islands, cottages in the Bahamas, and a piece of Miami Beach history.
Cat Paradise
Anguilla Beach on Cat Island in the Bahamas, where a tract of land twice the size of NYC’s Central Park is for sale for $180 million.
Want 1,400 acres of Bahamian paradise consisting of a significant chunk of a very sizable island? A tract on Cat Island in the Bahamas—which is almost exactly twice the size of New York’s Central Park and comes with 1.75 miles of white, sandy beaches—is on the market for $180 million. The property is pre-approved for a 5,000-residential unit luxury development, including an 18-hole golf course, hotels, shopping centers, church, schools, greenbelt, and bridle paths. Twenty-one miles of roads and a 1,200-foot-long deep-water channel, which will connect with a marina, have already been completed. Listing agent is Eddy Martinez.
Island in the Sun
A cool $41 million will get you a half of a private island in the Bahamas—more specifically, the 164-acre eastern half of Frazer’s Hogs Cay, also known as Chub Cay, in the Berry Islands—and make it your new home, or your new mega-resort. Forty miles north of Nassau (and even closer to Andros Island), the long, undeveloped peninsula is being marketed as a future luxury resort, complete with development approvals already secured, but it could also be kept pristine and wild. The approved resort, called the Hog Cay Club, would include a hotel, beachfront villas, and a marina on 42 acres of “gently rolling land with open sea views to the tongue of the ocean in the south,” as well as inland waterways connecting a series of small islands populated by villas. Eddy Martinez, Worldwide Properties, 225 Collins Ave., Ste. 101, Miami Beach, 786-286-4344
The Villa Life
On Paradise Island, just down the beach from Atlantis, five custom-designed villas are on the market starting at $5 million. Each of the three-and four-bedroom Beach House Villas is fully furnished and has a private pool.
Just far enough up the beach from Atlantis to leave the tourists behind, five custom villas on a corner of Paradise Island are for sale. The site of the Beach House Villas, by Brennan Custom Homes, spans the width of Paradise Island, with water on either side. Three villas face the ocean, and two are on the harbor side, with the least expensive one priced at $5.5 million. Each of the fully furnished three-and four-bedroom villas, from 3,109 to 5,334 square feet, has a private pool, while all share a gym and marina. Daniel Greenglass, Brennan Custom Homes, 255 Sunrise Ave., Ste. 200, Palm Beach, 416-972-1682; dig@jfbrennan.net
Transformation
The Shore Club in South Beach, now a chic boutique hotel, is undergoing a partial conversion to one-to three-bedroom condos, many with ocean views (a sales launch took place during Art Basel).
South Beach’s iconic Shore Club, a classic MiMo hotel that’s gone through many iterations—from a postwar family beach hotel built in 1949 to graying relic in the ’70s, to chic boutique hotel in the ’90s—is embarking on its next life. The Shore Club is going condo, receiving a partial conversion to residential use, with approximately 200 of the property’s 309 hotel rooms being converted into 75 one-to three-bedroom condominiums, many with ocean views. The transformation of the historic property will be handled by Brazilian designer Isay Weinfeld, with a sales launch that took place during Art Basel in Miami Beach. Marketing is being handled by Douglas Elliman; 305-535-0111