Compared with this offer, Beyonce’s $3 million private island sounds negligible. Pumpkin Key – a private island in Florida Keys just hit the market and can be yours for $110 million. The 26-acre sanctuary in the gated Ocean Reef Club community and less than an hour from Miami is owned by the widow of Chicago businessman George Berry, who bought it in 1973. Pumpkin Key offers a unique mix of seclusion, splendour and convenience.
Although the most of the islad is undeveloped, there’s a master house, two caretaker’s cottages, a boat captain’s apartment, private office, 12 one and one-half-acre bay front lots, boat slip large enough for a super yacht, and tennis court/helipad. The price of the island also includes a single-family residence and garage with dockage and water access on shore within the Ocean Reef community.
“Pumpkin Key represents one of the most exceptional opportunities in real estate today, anywhere in the world,” said Russell Post, Founder and President of Russell Post Sotheby’s International Realty. “From creating a family compound or a private ‘club-within-a-club’ within Ocean Reef, the possibilities are endless. Pumpkin Key offers the unique opportunity for privacy, while still being part of the Ocean Reef community, and just a quick ten minute helicopter ride or fifty minute boat trip to Miami.”
According to the listing details “the island serves as an ideal family compound or could be developed to include 12 bay front homes owned by several families.” In that case it wouldn’t be only yours private island.
