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PB couple has not one but two homes for sale

By: Darrell Hofheinz
Published: 7/11/2012Source: Palm Beach Daily News

Giovana and Abe Haruvi, for whom three Palm Beach houses are two too many, have listed the smallest of those, at 129 Woodbridge Road in the Estate Section, for sale at $2.895 million....

During the past couple of years, the Haruvis had used the house as a home base while they extensively renovated another residence nearby at 112 Via Palma, fully expecting to move there, Abe Haruvi told the Shiny Sheet earlier this year.

But once those renovations were nearly completed, they decided that a house on the lake was more to their liking after they saw — and bought — the home of the late developer Bob Gordon and his wife, Arlette, at 980 N. Lake Way.

They paid a recorded $7.8 million for it last November. Fite Shavell & Associates agent Scott M. Gordon, representing his mother, handled both sides of that sale.

“We always wanted to be on the water,” Abe Haruvi, a real estate investor with strong ties to New York City, said at the time of the sale. “This was an opportunity I couldn’t resist.”

In October, before the sale closed, the Haruvis, in turn, listed 112 Via Palma for $7.45 million with Paulette Koch and Dana Koch of Corcoran Group. And ensconced in their new lakefront retreat, the Haruvis in late May put the Woodbridge house up for sale through agent Susan Furman, who says she has worked with them on other deals.

The Bermuda-style house on Woodbridge has five bedrooms and six bathrooms and a pool cabana that doubles as guest quarters. With nearly 5,000 square feet of living space, inside and out, the house stands on the street that borders the north side of The Mar-a-Lago Club.

The property also comes with a perk available to residents of the street, who can join Mar-a-Lago without paying the club’s hefty initiation fee — just the regular dues — thanks to a deal Donald Trump worked out years ago with the town.

Once they sell their two extraneous island homes, the Haruvis, by the way, will still be able to count multiple investment properties in Palm Beach County among their holdings, records show.

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Busy street — The Corcoran Group just closed one deal in the 200 block of Mockingbird Trail and is reporting pending sales for two other houses on the same road.

No. 222 changed hands late last month for about $1.95 million, according to the deed recorded by the county clerk’s office. Agent Allison Kavanaugh Wren had listed the four-bedroom house with nearly 4,300 square feet of “total” living space, for $2.4 million for sellers Clayre and Jay Haft. Gary Pohrer of K2 Realty in Palm Beach acted for the buyer, Stephen S. Helms.

Meanwhile, agent Jim McCann has reported that his listing of Jim and Marcia Sullivan’s home at No. 233 is under contract. Agent Sharon “Queeney” Weintz of Mirsky Valore is representing the as-yet-unidentified buyer. The four-bedroom house has nearly 6,300 total square feet of living space inside and out, and was priced at $4.45 million in the Palm Beach Board of Realtors Multiple Listing Service.

And Paulette Koch and Dana Koch have reported via Corcoran’s website a pending sale for No. 256, Edwin D. Carton’s three-bedroom house with nearly 4,300 total square feet, which isn’t listed for sale in MLS. They are also acting for the unidentified buyer in that deal, Dana Koch says.

No word yet on the selling prices.

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