A lot can change in a year. The No. 2 most expensive Hamptons home sale of 2019 wouldn’t have made the top 10 in 2020, and the entry price for the list shot up from $22 million to $35 million. The biggest sale of the year set a new all-time Hamptons
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535 North County Road and Mark Pulte with former President Donald Trump (Google Maps; Pulte Family Foundation; Getty)
An oceanfront mansion in Palm Beach is under contract for nearly $140 million, a record price in Florida that would place it as one of the most expensive home sales in the U.S.
The buyer is a New York resident relocating to Palm Beach, according to the Wall Street Journal.
A company managed by luxury home builder Mark Pulte, who is the son of Pulte Homes founder William Pulte, owns the property and built the spec home at 535 North County Road. Former President Donald Trump once owned the site.
Jeff Bezos, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen led 2020 s Biggest Real-Estate Deals
12/28/2020 | 03:21pm EDT
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By Katherine Clarke Many U.S. billionaires got richer during the pandemic, thanks in part to the recovery of global stock markets. It s perhaps unsurprising then that, while individual markets were impacted to dramatically different degrees, the ultra-high end of the real-estate market didn t crash in 2020 as a result of the Covid-19 crisis. While the New York City market took a gut punch as wealthy Manhattanites fled the city, markets such as the Hamptons, Greenwich, Conn., Palm Beach and Los Angeles boomed. Local realtors attributed that uptick in part to the increasing fortunes of the wealthiest Americans, a desire by the rich to get out of densely populated environments and a rise in the number of people who wanted to upsize to larger homes with space for work-from-home friendly amenities like offices and gyms.
Properties, politics and a new girlfriend: Jeff Bezos lived his best billionaire lifestyle in 2020
His ex-wife made $4bn in charitable donations over four months, but 2020 has been an increasingly fruitful year for the multi billionaire
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and girlfriend Lauren Sanchez on the front row during fashion month
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As 2019 came to an end, Jeff Bezos was hoping things could only get better. It was the year he had split from MacKenzie, his wife of 25 years, who received 25 percent of his Amazon stock in a historic £28bn divorce settlement.
Their parting emerged after the leaking of sexually suggestive texts he sent to his mistress, former Fox News presenter Lauren Sanchez, which were splashed across the tabloids. It was later alleged that Bezos’ phone was hacked using a WhatsApp message sent from a number belonging to Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince.