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Concentrated in Florida and California, the year’s biggest residential sales featured high-profile buyers eager to secure investments with ample square footage, pedigree and prime locations.

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Estée Lauder. OKO Group. Google.

Those are just some of the companies that appear on the CVs of this year’s highest-end real estate consumers.

The caliber of the names matches the staggering prices luxury clientele paid — or collected from a sale — this year as high-end homes pushed prices beyond their 2024 limits and, ultimately, into the stratosphere.

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To wit: $200 million is quickly becoming the aspirational price for ultra-wealthy clients, even though just a few years ago, $100 million seemed like a shocking sum. In fact, so far in 2025, at least five properties have listed for an asking price of $200 million or more, according to The Wall Street Journal. And those climbing prices show no signs of slowing down.

The eye-popping properties in the list below that make up the priciest publicly advertised sales of 2025 are concentrated in idyllic settings in Florida and California, and boast square footage that can be dizzying. As always, because of the discretion with which such high-end sales are handled, this list may not be complete, but it gives a sense of the ways in which luxury real estate pushed boundaries in 2025.

2170, 2200 and 2340 Gordon Drive

$225M

Naples, Florida

2170, 2200 and 2340 Gordon Drive, Naples, Florida | Zillow

The most expensive residential sale of 2025 so far is a three-home deal. All of the parcels are believed to have been purchased by the same elite buyer for a grand total of $225 million. That easily eclipses the most expensive residential deal that took place in 2024: Oakley founder James Jannard’s $210 million Malibu sale.

The scenic Naples estate spans more than 15 acres and includes 800 feet of beach frontage just a few blocks from Naples Pier. It may sound like paradise, but the property is located in an area with an “extreme” risk of flooding, or a 99.9 percent chance of flooding over the next 30 years, according to Realtor.com’s climate risk rating. Michael McCumber of Gulf Coast International Properties represented the seller, who was tied to the affluent DeGroote family of Canada.

1063 and 1071 N. Ocean Blvd.

$177M

Palm Beach, Florida

1071 N Ocean Blvd and William Lauder | Google Street View and U.S. Embassy London / Wikimedia Commons

A wealthy buyer linked to Microsoft has acquired several lots in Palm Beach, the most notable of which were 1063 and 1071 North Ocean Boulevard. The buyer is rumored to be Charles Simonyi, creator of Word and Excel. The properties had been listed by Estée Lauder heir William Lauder initially for $200 million before undergoing a price drop to $177.8 million, after which point they were snatched up.

The sale was not publicly recorded, so it is not known how much the lots actually sold for, but sources close to the deal have said it’s close to the asking price and at least above $160 million. Meanwhile, the buyer has also been collecting other ultra-luxury estates nearby to put together a portfolio of around $250 million. Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate held the listing, and Ryan Serhant of SERHANT. repped the buyer.

26 Star Island Drive

$120M

Miami Beach, Florida

26 Star Island Drive, Miami Beach, Florida | Google Earth and Gesi Schilling / Wikimedia Commons

In a new record for Miami-Dade County, developer Vlad Doronin sold his waterfront mansion on Star Island in March for $120 million to a Delaware-based entity tied to businessman and tech entrepreneur Michael Ferro. Retired basketball pro Shaquille O’Neal had sold the 22,000-square-foot property to Doronin for $16 million in 2009.

The developer founded the Miami-based firm OKO Group, which is behind developments 830 Brickell and the Aman Residences.

630 Nimes Road

$110M

Los Angeles, California

630 Nimes Road, Los Angeles, California, and James Packer | Google Earth and Scott Barbour / Stringer / Getty Images

One of Los Angeles’ priciest deals of the year so far involved Crown Resorts chair James Packer, who bought a recently renovated Bel Air estate for $110 million this spring. The home spans 10 bedrooms and 15 bathrooms, and is known as “Le Belvedere.”

The seller, according to records, is an LLC tied to a Los Angeles-based company called European Investment Management Services Inc. Stephen Resnick, Jonathan Nash, David Parnes and James Harris of Carolwood Estates repped the seller, and Drew Fenton of Carolwood Estates and Kurt Rappaport of Westside Estate Agency repped the buyer.

594 S. Mapleton Drive

$110M

Los Angeles, California

594 S. Mapleton Drive, Los Angeles, California, and Wendy and Eric Schmidt | Zillow and Benn Gibbs / Wikimedia Commons

In August, ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife, Wendy Schmidt, made a splash in LA’s luxury market when the couple purchased the storied home known as “Spelling Manor” after TV producer Aaron Spelling, for whom the mansion was built in 1990.

The French chateau-style estate had been on and off the market for a few years, and at one point asked $137.5 million. The last time it traded hands was in 2019 for about $120 million, just after a renovation of the property had been conducted by then-seller and British heiress Petra Ecclestone.

The Schmidts will also conduct their own renovation of the home, The WSJ reported, to make the property more energy efficient and to streamline the floor plan. The home’s seller, a California-based entity known as 594 Mapleton LLC, had to deal with a title issue prior to selling — according to lawsuits, a group of scammers had created a fraudulent deed on the home and recorded it with Los Angeles County in 2024.

Drew Fenton of Carolwood Estates repped the sale, and Linda May, also of Carolwood, repped the buyer.

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