Tom Joyner got near his asking price as he unloads his Miami mansion for a cool $19 million, the Los Angeles Times reports. The home was purchased in 2015 for $10.5 million and underwent a reported $7.5 million in renovations.
“I wanted it to be very easy to see the sea from most places in my house,” Joyner told Architectural Digest in 2020.
The three-bedroom, four-bathroom home boasts more than 7,3000 square feet and has ocean views from just about every room. It was listed in May for $20 million.
Located in the private, gated
Golden Beach community, the staircase of the two-story home serves as an art gallery, with pieces from Picasso, Robert Pruitt, Allora & Calzadilla, and Ernie Barnes.
The entire second floor serves as the primary bedroom and includes an office, bathroom, and a glass-encased tub in the center of the room. A professional gym and boxing ring are located on the lower level.
The outside space includes a swimming pool, spacious verandas, a summer kitchen, a beachside cabana, and access to a private beach.
“This is a unicorn property in one of South Florida’s most exclusive neighborhoods – and the only one with a private beach,” realtor Dina Goldentayer told The New York Post when the home was placed on the market. “A turnkey oceanfront home with this level of design is extremely hard to find. From the moment you pull up, you are wowed at every turn by stunning ocean views and an incredible attention to detail from designer Deborah Wecselman.”
The one-time “Fly Jock” was the longtime host of “The Tom Joyner Morning Show,” which ran from 1994-2019 and was syndicated by Reach Media. He was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 1998.
In other radio real estate news, Angela Yee, co-host of the Premiere Networks-syndicated “The Breakfast Club” has partnered with her friend and broker Sara Golden of Nest Seekers International on a $1.9 million purchase of a home in New York’s Catskill Mountains.
The seven-bedroom, four-bath midcentury-modern home is 2,750 square feet and sits on 9.5 acres in the town of Roxbury, The New York Post reports.
Yee is a real estate investor who also owns a landmarked Brooklyn brownstone, which she picked up for $2.8 million. Other Brooklyn properties include another brownstone in the Bedford–Stuyvesant section and an investment condo in Williamsburg.
The latest purchase will be used by both Yee and Golan and will also serve as an investment property.
“I realized how important it was to have a place to get away from the city during the pandemic,” Yee told the Post. “As friends and business partners, the property works as an investment as well as a home we will both enjoy for years to come,” Golan added.