About two months ago I heard a rumor going around the island that a local group had purchased the Curry Mansion for $30 million. That is a whopping even by current Key West standards. I remember being hereon a trip during the mid 1980s when I heard the mansion had then just sold for $1 million. The mansion was a significant landmark property. The price made locals gasp. Nothing had sold for a price approaching that amount.
I immediately checked the Key West MLS.There was no record of a recent sale. I checked and re-checked and then searched county records under name of the owner. Still nothing of record.
Then on December 11th the sale of 511 Caroline Street, Key West appeared in the MLS. The mansion property sold at $20,599,500. The two co-listing agents were Keith Blandt and Wendy Zintsmaster, both of Truman & Co. The buyer's agent was outside the MLS.
I mention "the mansion property" because the annex property located across the street and was not in this sale. I heard the annex plus a single family home were a part of the total sale. So far neither of those properties have appeared in the MLS nor in county records.
