A waterfront mansion on Palm Beach’s Billionaires’ Row has hit the market at $195 million, putting it in position to become the most expensive single-family home ever sold on the island.
The nearly 20,000-square-foot house at 1616 South Ocean Boulevard sits on close to two acres with water access on both the intracoastal and Atlantic sides, according to The Real Deal, which first reported the listing. Rebuilt from scratch in 2023, the property now has seven bedrooms, 12 bathrooms and a powder room. Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate holds the listing, where the asking price works out to roughly $9,790 per square foot. Worth noting: the headline on the original report cites $198 million, but the article’s own text and per-square-foot math both point to $195 million, a discrepancy in the reporting that’s worth flagging rather than picking a number to repeat without comment.
The house last changed hands in 2018 for $22.4 million, sold to a land trust corporation acting on behalf of an undisclosed buyer. Before that, it belonged to former Avis chief executive Joseph Vittoria and his wife, Luciana, who bought it for about $5.7 million in 1996. The property sits roughly a mile south of Mar-a-Lago along the two-mile stretch of South Ocean Boulevard known locally as Billionaires’ Row…