(This content was created with the help of AI.) The Florida city of Naples just landed its own real-estate mystery: Someone quietly dropped $311 million to stitch together close to 19 waterfront acres on Gordon Drive, without ever even walking the land, according to brokers.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the unknown buyer or buyers, using a land trust and rigid NDAs, first paid Canada’s DeGroote family $225 million for 15 acres in 2025, then added the neighboring 3.7-acre Stayer property for $86 million a little more than a year later.
The secretive new ownership has also applied for demolition permits for the Port Royal properties, per the Real Deal. “Something is coming to that stretch of Port Royal,” says Yasmin Saad of the Saad Team real estate group…