Baby buy, buy, buy.
If co-Waterperson of the Year, owner of professional surfing, Dirk Ziff’s face was not red this morning when it was revealed that he took a $100m bath on a slice of South Florida where everybody, literally everybody, is making money then it will certainly grow crimson when he discovers that Backstreet Boy Howie D stands to make a fortune on a condominium complex in Kelly Slater’s Cocoa Beach.
Per Click Orlando:
With his Backstreet Boys touring schedule postponed by the pandemic, Howie D addressed a small crowd during the groundbreaking of his $35 million Cocoa Beach condominium complex, News 6 partner Florida Today reports.
“This is actually the first time I’ve been in front of an audience in a year,” Howie D said, speaking to about 35 people standing on a sidewalk Monday morning at the future site of The Surf.
“This is not my normal gig,” he said, generating laughter.
The Surf will feature 25 luxury condominiums ranging from $975,000 to $2.5 million and a second-floor swimming pool, spa and fire pit atop ground-level retail space with a target opening date in the first or second quarter 2023.
Guaranteed to make much money because of both its name and likely association with the 11x World Champion.
Howie D will start recording the Backstreet Boys Christmas album next week, basking in his coming real-estate riches. “I’m actually catching up with the guys for the first time in a year next week. We’re going to catch up somewhere in the winter wonderland — somewhere wherever there’s some snow — to get into the Christmas spirit,” he told the outlet.
“We’re going to go in and do some pre-production on it, getting to see who’s going to sound right on which song. And then we’ll probably all record the rest of it individually.”
Very cool though equally unlikely that Dirk Ziff will buy or listen as he is known for extreme jealousy.
The story probably as developed as it will ever be.
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Dirk Ziff didn’t take a $100 million bath on that property in South Florida. He made $74 million/$3.3 million a year on it since 1999.
This is a waste of time – pearls before swine – but here is a repeat.
And here are some paragraphs with more accurate reporting on the sale of the estate – which is massive by the way.
So they sold for $94 million a property that was worth $19.6 million in 1999 which means the place increased $74 million in 22 years or $3.3 million a year.
If that’s taking a bath, then that’s a nice bath.
Maybe you should bathe more.
You’d feel better about yourself and stop wasting the world”s time printing fake news.
Ragging on people who surf better than you and are far far wealthier than you.
Paging Dr. Freud!
The 15.65-acre compound at 2000 S. Ocean Blvd. near the Boynton Beach Inlet was last listed at $115 million by Sotheby’s International Realty, although it had been marketed privately in early 2015 by other agencies for $195 million, the same price it had when it first entered the multiple listing service in 2016.
With dense vegetation, the former Ziff estate has about 1,200 feet of beach frontage and about 1,300 feet of waterfront on the irregularly shaped side facing the Intracoastal Waterway. The property lies a few blocks north of the Boynton Beach Inlet.
Together, the multiple buildings offer nearly 85,000 square feet of living space, inside and out, with 33 bedrooms, 34 bathrooms and 13 powder rooms.
In 1999, Ziff Jr. and his three sons, along with his second wife, Tamsen Ann Ziff, signed a $19.6 million deed transferring their ownership to a limited liability company. Records show Tamsen Ziff serves as vice president of that company, Ocean Boulevard Properties LLC.
https://www.palmbeachdailyn…
ya search skills not so sharp…
yeah nah call me when its about n’sync…
…sweden?…dya have internet bitch?
I think either my previous comment was vanished or I didn’t hit ‘post’ correctly.
What’s “interesting” is the amount of hoo-hah surrounding Florida’s COVID response.
I haven’t followed it all closely but there’s been:
A: the arrest of the former chief infection statistician for Florida who refused to falsify her results at the governor’s request, and used her legitimate password to scrape the backend for the real data which she then published separately. She was arrested for “hacking”.
B: Various local politicians who have arranged a list of wealthy neighbourhoods to give the vaccine to first. The governor helped this along to further his ‘exposure to a presidential bid’.
Yeah. “Interesting”.
woah not in the face, going ruin the service…
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Surfing the Floridian property market has been surprisingly enjoyable. Thanks Chas
BTC fresh highs
Shits on property
You in? I swapped my $200 of ripple to BTC a month back. Should I be calling the boss to quit?
Just wait for W0Z Coin and load up.
Selling Florida real estate always seemed a silly thing.
1. It’s in Florida which is full of Floridians.
2. It’s basically a glorified sandbar and only inches away from being underwater at any given moment.
Pretty nice though. I’d take it over the shithole I live in.
You could’t pay me to live in Florida.
I’ve been there and thought it sucked compared to the real ‘paradises’ like Hawaii.
Agreed, however, FL is a lot cheaper. Islands tend to have higher cost of … well, you know where this is going.
different reality actually living in HI than visiting
Yes that’s true. As I only visited Florida I guess I didn’t give it a fair shake.
Florida’s economy is basically one big real estate pyramid scam. That and insurance fraud. And drugs.
There are reports that his business idea came to him shortly before this photo was taken. If you look closely you can see him pondering. https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
It looks like he’s struggling mentally and physically upon how to hold the board.
Didn’t the blonde guy get canceled? Doesn’t that leave space for another middle aged wannabe musician attention seeker? Hmm
Chas looks like a slightly more than middle aged batty boy. Sign him up.
So in.
You’ll be able to purchase your own boy band, when you sell BG eh?
Am feeling a bit sour about it.
Looking for a second baritone…
My voice is akin to an enraged muppet.
Maybe Kelly is the love child of Major Nelson and his Jeannie.
It makes sense, he’s a magician and an uptight wanker
Boyz II Men stymied the maturation of Backstreet Boys.
Did you see the latest G Floyd
Footage?
Interesting.
You mean the new Autonomous Zone at his Memorial? I’ve seen that. Or do you mean something different?
No the new body cam footage on the accused officer
I’ll have to look it up.
Aren’t they the same thing?
One, well three to be exact, became men. The others are doomed to prepubescent no hormonal rage.
Why aren’t you talking sharks or snow this week Chas ?
Everyone knows Derek is the leader of RealestateGrit speculation.
P.S.
Has Dirk (aka Artie) Ziff given a solid offer (through his bumboy Eric) for the purchase of BG (and it’s associated ‘grits’) yet ?
Will the commentariat get a cut ?
HowDie?!