Saturday, June 28, 2008
Tennis's Wilander Lists Home in Sun Valley
Tennis's seven-time Grand Slam singles winner Mats Wilander has listed his home in the Idaho resort area of Sun Valley for $8.5 million.
The Swedish-born Mr. Wilander and his wife, Sonya, a former model, bought the roughly 80-acre parcel in the 1990s and built their main residence there in 1999. It's about a 20-minute drive southeast of Ketchum.

The 10,500-square-foot main house, contemporary in style, has a large exercise room and a soundproofed music room, and comes with a guest house, caretaker's residence, lap pool and hot tub. There's no tennis court, because the couple wanted to create a retreat away from tennis for their four children, says listing agent Trent Jones, of Hall & Hall's Sun Valley office. The 43-year-old Mr. Wilander, who won his last Grand Slam at 24, is in England coaching at Wimbledon.
Condo in Washington Priced at $10.6 Million
In Washington, a manufacturing executive has listed a condominium for what may be the city's highest-ever price for an apartment.
The 6,650-square-foot, six-bedroom apartment, in Georgetown overlooking the Potomac River, has gone on the market for $10.6 million. The owners are Eric Steiner -- chief operating officer of Fairchild Corp., which supplies motorcycle gear and airplane parts -- and his wife, Pascaline. The couple combined three units in the 70-unit Water Street building, which was built in 2004. The combined maintenance fees are $6,838 per month, plus $200 for four garage spaces. The building has a rooftop pool, fitness room and 24-hour staff. Mary Grover Ehrgood, of Washington Fine Properties, has the listing.
In Washington this year through May, only five apartments costing more than $1.5 million sold, down from 18 in the same period last year, according to the local Realtors association. The city's condo record is thought to be a Georgetown sale for $6.25 million.
Florida Estate Sells Below Its 2001 Price
British Internet entrepreneur Stuart Lawley has sold his Jupiter, Fla., riverfront mansion for $4.65 million, about 22% less than he paid for it in 2001.

In the late 1990s, Mr. Lawley founded oneview.net, which helped businesses get on the Web, and eventually sold the company. (Recently, Mr. Lawley tried to create a separate area on the Web for pornography sites via a dot-xxx domain name.) He paid $5.925 million for the 9,700-square-foot house called "Villa Del Fiume." Built in 1998, the Mediterranean-style home is on 1.74 acres and includes a two-bedroom guest house and a dock. Jupiter, in southeast Florida, is also home to Tiger Woods.
Mr. Lawley was required to sell the house due to a divorce from his wife, Amanda, who co-owns the property, according to Les Bryant, of Continental Realty Auctions, who handled the sale with Palm Beach County-based Illustrated Properties, an affiliate of Christie's Great Estates. Mr. Lawley's ex-wife couldn't be reached for comment.
Mr. Lawley had put the house up for sale in an auction broadcast on the Web in April, seeking $4.5 million, but the home failed to find a buyer. Mr. Bryant says that a Boston-based marketing executive who saw the auction advertised but wasn't able to see the house before the event eventually bought the home.
Write to Christina S.N. Lewis at christina.lewis@wsj.com
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