Tommy Hilfiger and wife relist one of their two Palm Beach houses for nearly $36 million
Fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger and his wife have put one of their two Palm Beach houses back on the market for the new season at a lower price of $35.9 million — $2 million less than what it was asking last season.
The lakefront property at 313 Dunbar Road was priced $37.9 million when the listing took a summer hiatus from the multiple listing service at the beginning of June. That price had been discounted $1.8 million from the one the property carried when it entered the market at $39.7 million in September 2022.
Hilfiger and his fashion-designer wife, Dee Ocleppo Hilfiger, used their ownership company to buy the Mediterranean-style house for a recorded $21 million in May 2021. The couple then updated the 2006 house with brighter, more modern-style interiors featuring light woods and fine finishes, photographs show.
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The house has three bedrooms and 6,175 square feet of living space, inside and out, the sales listing says. On the near North End, the house stands on a lot of about a third of an acre. It faces 100 feet on the Intracoastal Waterway with a dock and nearby access to the Lake Trail.
The Wall Street Journal was the first outlet to report the house’s return to the market. The renewed listing was activated Nov. 1, the mutliple listing service shows.
Broker Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate once again holds the listing.
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Angle also handled both sides of the transaction when the Hilfigers bought the property. Angle and his clients could not be immediately reached for comment.
It's not unusual for Palm Beach properties to be withdrawn from the MLS during the warmer months, when interest among would-be buyers is not as keen as it might be during the winter season, according to real estate observers.
Couple gave the decor of the Palm beach house 'a clean sweep,' according to Tommy Hilfiger
The Hilfigers worked with interior designer Martyn Lawrence on their update of the house.
“There was a lot of art, patterned drapes, patterned wallpaper, patterned furniture. Paisleys, florals, Oriental carpets. We did a clean sweep,” Tommy Hilfiger told Architectural Digest in an article about the re-do.
The house has a formal living room with a pecky-cypress ceiling and a coral-stone fireplace. The primary bedroom suite has two bathrooms, a sitting room and a pair of lakeview balconies.
An interior open-air courtyard has a fireplace, while an arcaded loggia offers views of the lap pool and the Intracoastal Waterway beyond.
Hilfigers have an ocean-to-lake estate on Palm Beach's Billionaires Row
A Hilfiger-controlled company owns another Palm Beach estate, an ocean-to-lake property that once was the home of media mogul Conrad Black on the stretch of South Ocean Boulevard known to locals as Billionaires Row. The Hilfigers embarked on an extensive renovation of that property at 1930 S. Ocean Blvd. after buying it for $46.25 million in July 2021.
The Hilfigers have been active players in buying and selling Palm Beach real estate over the past couple of years.
Last last spring, a Hilfiger-controlled company flipped, for $41.38 million, a landmarked house it had bought a few months before for just under $37 million at 930 S. Ocean Blvd. in the Estate section. On the buyer's side was West Palm Beach real estate attorney Maura Ziska, who acted as trustee of the 930 S. Ocean Trust. Broker Lawrence Moens of Lawrence A. Moens handled both sides of the May sale of the Mediterranean-style house, which has an ocean view.
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In March 2022, a Hilfiger-controlled company sold Fox News host Bret Baier and his wife, Amy, a three-bedroom house at 244 Fairview Road for a recorded $12 million. The Hilfiger company had bought the Bermuda-style house new for a recorded $9 million in March 2021.
The Baiers have the house on Fairview Road listed for sale with Angle for $15.495 million. In July, Bret Baier used a trust to pay $37 million for a larger house at 125 Wells Road. Angle acted on behalf of the buyer in that deal opposite Corcoran agents Paulette Koch and Dana Koch. The seller was longtime resident Roberta Weiner, who acted as trustee of a land trust and whose husband is Boston real estate developer Stephen R. Weiner.
Tommy Hilfiger founded his eponymous company in 1985 and built it into a fashion and lifestyle empire with a focus on casual, American style. He sold the company in 2006 and it changed hands again four years later, when it became part of Phillips-Van Heusen. Hilfiger remains the company's principal designer.
His wife has designed handbags and other accessories for her eponymous label.
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Portions of this story appeared previously in the Palm Beach Daily News.
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Darrell Hofheinz is a USA TODAY Network of Florida journalist who writes about Palm Beach real estate in his weekly “Beyond the Hedges” column. He welcomes tips about real estate news on the island. Email dhofheinz@pbdailynews.com, call 561-820-3831 or tweet @PBDN_Hofheinz. Help support our journalism. Subscribe today.
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