$18.5 Million Home Becomes Maui’s Most Expensive Sale of the Year

An opulent Maui estate marketed for $18.5 million on Wednesday, generating it the island’s best-priced sale this calendar year, in accordance to representatives for Island Sotheby’s International Realty.

The 6,860-square-foot home at, which had been outlined for $19.9 million, features six non-public most important suites, and sits on 1.04 acres in Wailea-Makena showcasing unobstructed multi-island ocean views, as nicely as much more than 3,000 square ft of lined lanai to create a seamless blend of indoor/outdoor residing.

The dwelling “is pretty exclusive inside an exceptional enclave in Makena,” mentioned Ryan MacLaughlin, owner and principal broker of Island Sotheby’s International Realty in an emailed statement. “Sitting at the optimum elevation of the subdivision, it is pretty personal while featuring panoramic ocean see corridors, yet enjoys the benefit of getting a stone’s throw from the best that Wailea has to offer.”

Mr. MacLaughlin represented the listing along with Alex Cortez, taking care of lover and broker-in-charge of Island Sotheby’s International Realty.

The home’s outside entertaining house is designed as a sequence of three separate pavilions linked by lanais, in accordance to the listing, with features which includes a central back garden, a waterfall, a sunken cabana and bar space, an outside shower, and a vanishing edge pool and sizzling tub, all with considerable views. The property also options a pedestrian pathway to nearby seashores.

Located in A person Palauea Bay, a gated luxurious local community, the residence final bought for $8.5 million in 2014, in accordance to property data. Information on the id of the home’s customer and seller was not immediately readily available. 

In addition to its comprehensive out of doors space, the home functions a spacious connoisseur kitchen that opens up onto a eating area with massive windows and sweeping sights, as properly as a residence film theater and personalized mahogany windows, for every the listing. Bedroom suites are developed to generate an indoor/outdoor feel as nicely, with sliding doors opening out on to personal decks and patios.

“The Maui superior-end sector proceeds to be in substantial need,” Mr. MacLaughlin mentioned. “Affluent, subtle consumers see the benefit that Maui has to present and in the recovery period of time have come to embrace its way of life even more.”

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