Shannon Donnelly
Palm Beach Daily News
HRH Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh, longest-serving Royal Consort in the history of the monarchy, died peacefully on Friday at Windsor Castle, two months shy of his 100th birthday.
He has been husband to HM Queen Elizabeth II for 72 years, and all that time, as royal protocol dictates, walked a few steps behind the queen.
But when he came to Palm Beach, solo or with one of his sons, he was front and center. He walked in behind nobody.
Prince Philip was no stranger to this royalty obsessed island, and especially not to island philanthropic circles. Like less blue-blooded fundraisers, the prince knew that Palm Beach is ripe with charity bucks.
Carolyn DiPaolo
Special to the Palm Beach Daily News First-time visitors sometimes find it hard to believe that Palm Beach is such a small town, so large is its international reputation.
Palm Beach Daily News veteran Darrell Hofheinz wrote those words on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the town’s founding.
The centennial of April 17, 1911, was marked in 2011 with an all-town celebration that included a gala, a parade and fireworks.
As the last decade has passed, Palm Beach continued to live up to its reputation as a center of fame, power and an aspirational quality of life.
Consider:
David Willson
Special to the Daily News
The pandemic year of 2020 has proven to be a banner year for Palm Beach real estate. No doubt you’ve noticed the many eye-popping real estate transactions in the Palm Beach Daily News over the last few weeks. Our real estate editor, Darrell Hofheinz, has been busier than the proverbial one-armed paper hanger.
This deluge of deals brings to mind a Palm Beach Daily News editorial cartoon that was published on June 24, 2007, during an earlier island real estate boom. Like today, it was a tale of two economies. The disparity then was caused by the mortgage default-swap crash, its rash of mortgage foreclosures and an ensuing Great Recession.
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Priced at $140 million, Palm Beach ‘spec’ house lands under contract, MLS shows
The just-finished beachfront house at 535 N. County Road stands on property once owned by former President Donald Trump. The listing was marked “pending” after only a month in the MLS.
Darrell Hofheinz
Palm Beach Daily News
Add another piece of evidence to the growing pile that says Palm Beach’s red-hot real estate market continues to sizzle on the high end the very high end, in this case.
The most expensive property ever listed on the island a furnished seaside mansion developed on speculation and priced at $140 million has landed under contract, according to a listing updated Monday in the local multiple listing service.
Completed in 2020, the house at 149 E. Inlet Drive was designed for Myron and Michelle Miller.
Darrell Hofheinz
Palm Beach Daily News
A recently completed Palm Beach house on the “corner” of the Atlantic Ocean and the inlet just entered the market with the eye-popping price of $78.5 million.
The contemporary-style house at 149 E. Inlet Drive was designed as a custom home for Myron and Michelle Miller and lies immediately west of the Palm Beach jetty on a lot of about 1.4 acres, property records show. But because of federally protected easements abutting the property line, the house actually presides over nearly 4 acres.