Wealth boom keeps fueling top agents in Palm Beach County

Palm Beach County’s priciest residential deals tend to close off-market, and 2025 was no exception. Among the biggest? Billionaire Charles Simonyi, the early Microsoft employee credited with inventing Word and Excel, paid more than $160 million to acquire an undeveloped Palm Beach lot on the ocean. The seller was beauty heir William Lauder. Simonyi’s purchase was, obviously, an off-market deal, with no trail of public records. It is also part of his larger $350 million-plus assemblage on the island, sources say.  If he successfully completes rumored deals to acquire the oceanfront homes of Jon Bon Jovi and casino mogul William […]

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