Pro Football Hall-of-Fame member Fran Tarkenton is moving into Palm Beach with a $51.9 million purchase of a waterfront mansion.
The legendary Minnesota Vikings quarterback bought the 8,720-square-foot house at 1620 South Ocean Boulevard from trash tycoon Anthony Lomangino and wife, Lynda. The deal pencils to about $5,950 per square foot.
The Lomanginos paid $12.7 million for the property in 2019, records show. They gutted and remodeled the house’s interior, said Jana Scarpa of Compass, who represented them in the 2019 purchase and Tarkenton in the latest trade.
“They spared no expense on doing that interior,” she said.
The turn-key mansion has seven bedrooms, six bathrooms and two half-baths on a 0.67-acre lot. It was built in 2006, according to property records, and is located about a mile from Mar-a-Lago. Tarkenton voiced strong support for President Donald Trump during his 2016 campaign.
Tarkenton and his wife, Linda Tarkenton, of Atlanta, have vacationed in Palm Beach before but decided it was time for a winter home, Scarpa said.
Tarkenton played college football for the Georgia Bulldogs before spending 18 seasons in the NFL on the Vikings and the New York Giants. He then founded several businesses, including the website GoSmallBiz.
The Lomanginos earlier this year purchased a historic Palm Beach estate known as Villa Flora for $76.7 million. Anthony Lomangino is a waste management executive and Mar-a-Lago member who Trump appointed to the United States Postal Service board of trustees last year.
Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate had the listing.
The trade marks another landmark waterfront sale in pricey Palm Beach. Netscape co-founder Jim Clark reportedly spent $100 million on a waterfront estate on the island this month. Residential properties on the island averaged $7 million in the first quarter this year, according to TRD Data, up substantially from an average of $4.2 million in the first of 2021.
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