Surely the New England Patriots’ gangbuster football season must have come up for discussion during the negotiations for this month’s sale totaling nearly $3 million for Penthouse 3 at 100 Royal Palm Way at the corner of South Ocean Boulevard.
After all, both buyer and seller — and one of the real estate agents — have strong ties to Boston.
The deed listed the seller as Peter E. Madden, a management consultant who once headed State Street Bank and Trust Co. of Boston and served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
The buyer was Timothy Michael Sweeney of Liberty Mutual Insurance, who serves as president of the Beantown-based company’s personal insurance division.
And Madden’s broker was Boston native Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate, who had the listing for the three-bedroom oceanfront condo since August 2011 and had last set the price at $3.295 million. It sold for exactly $345,000 less than that figure, according to the price on the deed recorded Dec. 3.
On the buyer’s side was agent Ashley Copeland of Brown Harris Stevens, who is originally from Atlanta but says she has quite a few clients from the Boston area.
With marble floors and views of the ocean, the apartment has nearly 3,000 square feet of living space, including a noteworthy terrace that measures about 900 square feet. Angle described the latter in his sales listing, appropriately, as “entertainment sized.”
Madden, meanwhile, owns a landmarked John Volk-designed house at 300 Barton Ave. and also has a home in Newport, R.I.
One final connection to the Pilgrim State: Sweeney has bought into a building where the lobby area was recently overhauled, believe it or not, by a decorator with longtime ties to Massachusetts – Shiny Sheet columnist Carleton Varney of Dorothy Draper Co., who spent much of his childhood by the sea in Marblehead.
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A deal with angles — Speaking of Christian Angle, he and his wife, Ann-Britt, will be moving from their North End home to a larger Midtown house they just bought at 306 Pendleton Ave. in an off-the-market deal. The seller was a man the couple knows well — fellow independent real estate broker Lawrence Moens of Lawrence A. Moens Associates.
Moens, you might recall, had acquired the house late last month, paying a recorded $2.75 million to Lauri L. Cornell and her husband, Ronald LaBow, in a double deal. On the same day that sale closed, Cornell and LaBow paid Moens $6.75 million for Villa Giardino, a historic house at 341 Peruvian Ave. that the broker had owned through a limited liability company.
The Angles, in turn, paid Moens $2.95 million for their new home on Pendleton Avenue, according to the deed recorded Dec. 18 – a nice deal, considering that the property is valued on the county’s tax roles at $3.57 million. Built in 1937 on property measuring a little less than an acre, the Colonial-style house has a two-room guest cottage, and both total 6,232 square feet, inside and out, property records show. The house is just west of Cocoanut Row, several blocks north of Royal Palm Way.
“We’re thrilled, and we look forward to raising our family in the home,” Christian Angle says. “It was an opportunity that Lawrence Moens helped make possible.”
As of late last week, Angle hadn’t listed his other house, at 280 Orange Grove Road, for sale in the mutiple listing services that serve the island. That house has 2,756 square feet and four bedrooms, according to property recrods.
And Moens, as is his custom, wouldn’t discuss details of the Pendleton Avenue sale, but, with a smile in his voice, used his favorite phrase to describe the buyers — “a lovely young family.”
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Off the market — Listing agents Paulette Koch and Dana Koch of the Corcoran Group recently closed a recorded $1.32 million sale of unit No. 201 at Ocean Towers, 170 N. Ocean Blvd.
The mother-and-son sales duo had first listed the two-bedroom oceanview apartment for sale in July 2010 for Murray C. Fine and his wife, Margaret Murray, setting the initial price at $1.695 million but later dropping it to $1.375 million, according to records in the Palm Beach Board of Realtors Multiple Listings Service.
The buyers were Thomas E. and Laurys P. Swift of Dallas, according to the deed recorded just before Thanksgiving. The Swifts were represented by agent Diane Cunningham of Fite Shavell Associates.
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Agents on the move — Two agents recently joined the sales roster at Sotheby’s International Realty.
An island resident since 2008, Peter A. Barresi has more than 10 years of experience in advertising sales, and expertise in the travel and tourism industry. Prior to joining Sotheby’s, he served as an account executive in sales for Google, The New York Times and OUT Magazine, and was a vice president at Vault.com.
Deborah Caplenor spent a number of seasons in Palm Beach before making the island her year-round home. She brings to the agency 25 years of sales and marketing experience, including her tenure selling real estate at the Sotheby’s affiliate in Nashville, Tenn. A certified etiquette consultant and a graduate of the American School of Protocol, she founded the Southern School of Protocol and has plans to launch classes for children and adults in Palm Beach.