Billy Joel has owned the estate at 1110 S. Ocean since 2015 and has listed it for sale several times, with the current asking price of around $50 million. Photo provided
By Christine Davis
Piano Man Billy Joel may finally sell his Manalapan mansion at 1110 S. Ocean. Listed by Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate, it went pending in late August in perhaps the last stanza of a long ballad. Just this year Joel had relisted the mansion in January for $54.9 million, and then reduced its price in March to $49.9 million.
Angle declined to comment.
Jack Elkins, an agent with William Raveis, recounts the mansion’s history up to the time when he represented its current owners’ LLC when they purchased the property in 2015 for $22,109,100.
“It was sold fully furnished, turnkey,” Elkins said.
“Its original attraction: It had been part of the Vanderbilt estate, and it had the Vanderbilt sea wall, which was a nice touch.
“The original house, designed by Maurice Fatio, was built by Harold Vanderbilt. When owned by Veronica Hearst, she sold off 150 feet of the property — which was the rose garden, the primary bedroom suite and the tennis court — to Robert Fessler. He built the house that is there” today in 2010.
From there, Texas billionaire Donald Adams bought it from the developer Fessler’s LLC for $15 million in 2011, Elkins recalled.
Returning to the mansion’s current owners, “they put it back on the market in July 2018; they listed it for $31.9 million,” Elkins said.
Since then, it was relisted in November 2022 for $64.9 million. As noted in The Coastal Star’s February 2024 issue, it was relisted for $54.9 million, and then underwent further price reductions before finally striking just the right note and attracting its potential buyer’s attention.
The buyer and price should be revealed in public records once the sale closes, if it does.
“Ocean-to-Intracoastal properties with dockage have always been appealing,” Elkins said.
The current, 13,348-square-foot estate sits on 1.6 acres with about 150 feet of frontage on the ocean and Intracoastal Waterway.
The compound includes a guest house and staff house. The main house has nine bedrooms, and details include a theater room, a pub room with a bar, paneled library, 12-plus-car
garage, and wine cellar with a wet bar and tasting table.
Reportedly, Joel and his family have upgraded to a waterfront home at 5001 Egret Point Circle, in the Sanctuary neighborhood of Boca Raton.
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Alan B. Miller, founder, executive chairman and former CEO of Universal Health Services, and his wife, Jill, sold their 7,167-square-foot oceanfront residence at 3 Ocean Lane, Manalapan, for $18.25 million. The Millers bought the property in 1992 for $2.25 million.
Corinne Anna Buckley of Beverly Hills, California, is the new owner. With her husband, Fred, Corinne Buckley leads ProstaGenix, a maker of prostate health supplements.
Antonio and Pascal Liguori of the Pascal Liguori Group at Premier Estate Properties represented the sellers in the deal. The buyers were represented by Nicholas Gonzalez and Matthew Moser, agents with Serhant.
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Other high-end sales include two properties in Boca Raton’s Royal Palm Yacht & Country Club.
Leandro Rizzuto Jr. purchased a six-bedroom, 8,975-square-foot waterfront estate at 169 W. Key Palm Road in the country club for $18.5 million in August. The sellers, Donald R. Jenkins and Kelley Jenkins of Aspen, Colorado, purchased the property for $14.975 million in 2021. Joyce Schneider of Castles by the Beach Realty represented Rizzuto, while the sellers were represented by Senada Adžem and Dustin Nero of Douglas Elliman.
On the same day Rizzuto bought the home at 169 W. Key Palm Road, he sold a home at 2391 Areca Palm Road, Boca Raton. Nicola Verses bought that one for $10 million.
Rizzuto had purchased that property in November 2021 for $7 million. He had it listed with Schneider as well.
Rizzuto also owns a residence at 1900 Royal Palm Way, Boca Raton, which he has homesteaded. He purchased that home for $14 million in 2019.
Rizzuto is the son of the late Leandro Rizzuto Sr., who founded hair care products company Conair and later bought the culinary product companies Cuisinart and Waring.
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Alina Residences’ sales gallery has moved to the newly completed Alina 210, residence 504, at 210 SE Mizner Blvd., Boca Raton. It was previously located in Alina 200, the project’s phase-one building. To schedule appointments, email sales@alinabocaraton.com. Douglas Elliman Development Marketing is the exclusive sales team.
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Habitat for Humanity of Greater Palm Beach County ReStore, at 272 S. Dixie Highway, Boca Raton, closes mid-to-late October, as the building owners move ahead with plans to demolish and redevelop the site. The store is searching for a new Boca Raton location. Shoppers are encouraged to check out its 30% closing sale, to continue donating, and to shop at other Palm Beach County ReStore thrift and donation centers, which include the one at 1900 N. Federal Highway, Delray Beach.
Sales of donated items help Habitat for Humanity partner with families to build and repair safe and affordable homes in their communities.
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Focusing on an increased collaboration between its profit and nonprofit members, the Greater Delray Beach Chamber of Commerce has created an annual month of events in October called Do Good Delray. The chamber’s goal is to bring members together to improve awareness and engagement and to increase funding for the nonprofits’ philanthropic efforts.
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The Boynton Beach Online Chamber of Commerce recently conducted a school supply drop-off at Poinciana Elementary School in Boynton Beach.
“This is the first year that the chamber collected and dropped off school supplies to one of the schools in Boynton Beach,” said Roz Kodish, owner of Everything Logo. “The chamber is an integral part of the Boynton Beach community, and part of our mission is to give back to our community. We look forward to continuing this tradition in years to come.”
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The Delray Beach Housing Authority, the Delray Housing Group, AffordableHousing.com, iThink Financial, and Eat Better, Live Better conducted their annual backpack giveaway. Six hundred children’s backpacks with supplies were distributed in July.
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