Palantir Technologies CEO Alex Karp is the buyer who paid $46 million for a waterfront Venetian Islands mansion in June, The Real Deal has learned.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tom and Patricia Kennedy, who founded a Miami Beach-based software firm, sold the 9,700-square-foot home at 55 East San Marino Drive on San Marino Island last summer <\/a>to a hidden Delaware LLC. Karp\u2019s identity had not been previously reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n Palantir, the controversial AI software firm, announced last month that it was moving its headquarters<\/a> to Miami from Denver. The relocation is part of the wave of tech companies and their CEOs who have moved to South Florida since the post-pandemic boom.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Miami Beach home was on the market with Douglas Elliman\u2019s Dina Goldentayer, most recently asking $48.5 million. Joel Lusky and Zalmy Shapiro of the Brokerage South Florida represented the buyer, according to the listing. The agents declined to comment on the deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n A wave of multimillionaires and billionaires have purchased homes in South Florida in recent months, some propelled by the proposed wealth tax in California<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Ex-Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz recently paid $44 million<\/a> for a penthouse at the Four Seasons Residences at the Surf Club. Schultz announced his move to Miami from Seattle on his LinkedIn.\u00a0<\/p>\n Also in March, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan closed on an under-construction waterfront Indian Creek estate for $170 million<\/a>. That deal marks the most expensive home ever sold in Miami-Dade County.\u00a0<\/p>\n In December and January, Google co-founder Larry Page paid $188 million<\/a> for three Coconut Grove homes in deals that were recorded in December and January. More recently, his former colleague, Google co-founder Sergey Brin<\/a>, paid $51 million for the waterfront Allison Island home of LVMH CEO Michael Burke.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Palantir Technologies CEO Alex Karp is the buyer who paid $46 million for a waterfront Venetian Islands mansion…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[88714,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-189764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-alex-karp-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189764","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=189764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}