{"id":18719,"date":"2025-10-24T11:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T11:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/18719\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T11:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T11:13:10","slug":"home-across-from-lionel-messis-fort-lauderdale-pad-sells-for-a-record-13-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/18719\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Across From Lionel Messi\u2019s Fort Lauderdale Pad Sells for a Record $13 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"

A waterfront new-build mansion in Fort Lauderdale\u2019s Sea Ranch Lakes has sold for $13 million\u2014a new price point for the stretch of the Intracoastal Waterway that soccer legend Lionel Messi calls home.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 7,000-square-foot home on Seneca Road was completed earlier this year. It features the standard Miami Modern fare of large windows, minimalist interiors and open-plan indoor\/outdoor spaces\u2014along with a waterfront infinity pool, a floating staircase, a 300-bottle wine cellar and glass-enclosed balconies overlooking the water.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The 0.31-acre property is on the Intracoastal side of the Sea Ranch Lakes community facing the Bay Colony neighborhood, where Messi purchased a 10,500-square-foot mansion for $10.75 million in 2023 to be near Chase Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, where Inter Miami CF plays and trains.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Seneca mansion came to market in June f 2024 with Veroushka Volkert of ONE Sotheby\u2019s International Realty, asking $16.8 million. Over the following year, the price came down several times and was asking $14.4 million when it went into contract in early October, according to Zillow. The sale closed this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis property represents the best of the best,\u201d Volket said. \u201cThe views, the privacy, every architectural detail and every finish was curated to perfection.\u201d<\/p>\n

The seller, a local real estate agent and developer, purchased the lot for $3.875 million in 2022 and demolished the existing home to make way for the new build. She could not immediately be reached for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Sea Ranch Lakes is located just north of Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, between Fort Lauderdale and Pompano Beach, and commands some of the higher prices in the area. There are currently two homes in the neighborhood\u2014also new construction\u2014asking $12 million and $20 million, two of only four properties asking above $10 million along that stretch, according to records on Zillow. The other two are located in Bay Colony.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nearer to Fort Lauderdale, there are numerous properties asking $20 million or more, with a further cluster near Lauderdale Beach before tapering off.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A waterfront new-build mansion in Fort Lauderdale\u2019s Sea Ranch Lakes has sold for $13 million\u2014a new price point…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[453,15434,472,15437,454,473,28,249,251,250,447,466,15432,15435,3445,6666,15433,15436,474,4571,475],"class_list":["post-18719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-content-type-content-type-article","tag-content-type-content-type-gallery","tag-content-type_content-type-article","tag-content-type_content-type-gallery","tag-credited-by-mansion-global","tag-credited_by_mansion_global","tag-florida","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-integration-apple-news","tag-integration_apple-news","tag-location-market-south-florida","tag-location_market-south-florida","tag-north-america","tag-southern-u-s","tag-subject-subject-sales","tag-subject_subject-sales","tag-synd","tag-united-states","tag-wsj-pro-mansion-global"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}