Baseball great Cecil Fielder’s former mansion sold for $1,165,000 at auction on Thursday, May 27th. The estate, which is the largest in Brevard County, was purchased by Cecil for $3,750,000 back in 1995. So, I say that the new owner just got quite the steal! The home is located at 700 Jordan Blass Drive in the Suntree Country Club in Melbourne, FL. Before the auction took place, it was listed for a very reasonable $3,495,000, but failed to sell. The 25,000 square foot, 50-room mansion has a breathtaking 2-story foyer with marble floors and a spectacular floating staircase. There is also a 2-story great room with wrap-around upper balcony , 8 bedrooms, 10 bathrooms, full basketball and tennis courts, a home theater, an arts and crafts room, a model train room, a 4,500 square foot guest house, a separate apartment, an 8,000 bottle wine cellar, and a large swimming pool.
HERE IS A VIDEO TOUR OF THE HOME
About 50 people gathered in the home’s family room for the auction, but there were only 6 registered buyers. The auction lasted 20 minutes .
HERE IS A LOOK AT THE AUCTION
Tags: Florida, Miscellaneous, video
I’m not a huge fan of the house…but 25k sqft for that cheap is insane.
Wow I agree the new owner got a steal, I guess Cecil’s son Prince didn’t want to take on anymore of his father’s financial problems. Unfortunately this won’t be a lesson to future athlete’s to not build massive mega mansions and squander your money, it’s still happening even today.
Marie, you are so right. Many sports stars spend way to much money on cars and homes and the day the career is over they are broke. – Oh and someone did get a lot of house for 1.16M
Hi Marie and Marcus (and everyone else)……Had to say that I COULDN’T POSSIBLY agree with you more.
I live in metro-Detoilet, so even though I’ve never been even the smallest fan of any commercialized/industrialized sport, I do know about Fielder and his entirely-too-common and incomplete ability to save even a buck. He first made his career go big time playing here for the Detroit Tigers, and he bought, and then RUINED, a stunning, 10,000 sq. foot Grosse Pointe Farms, HISTORIC home that BURNT down while he was doing “renovations”…….YEAH, RIGHT. And, I’ll probably sound bitter about this, but so what….at least I’m admitting and saying it first, so I’ll beat anyone to the punch. I’m GLAD he lost this house, ’cause if I live to be A THOUSAND YEARS old, I’ll NEVER get used to SPORTS PLAYERS making THAT kinda’ money, EVERRRRR. I mean, the IMBECILE made FIFTY-MILLION DOLLARS over his career, and PISSED it ALLLLL AWAY. Like ANYone is supposed to feel sorry for him? Give me a gargantuan BREAK. Unfortunately, the one thing that I do think I’m either becoming used to, or already have gotten used to is the fact most of the human race from when we started to stand upright from the apes, or when Adam & Eve (whichever you believe), until we kill ourselves from overcrowding & pollution, will, JUST like Fielder, will NEVER LEARN…..how indescribably sad, huh?
Barney
You are right about athlete’s making a ton of money that most consider to be excessive. In general I don’t really care that much given they have a unique ability that most of us will never have LOL, but I am bothered when you read about people like Cecil and the recent stories of Antoine Walker and Eddie Curry burning through hundreds of millions, and in Eddie’s case still making 10 million a year. Antoine has 20 foreclosures going on right now and some of those are mega mansions, that is just mind boggling.
Somehow, I think when they started the minimum bid at 1 million, they probably hoped for a final bid a lot higher than 1.165 million. At least close to 2 million. Based on 19,000 SF for the main house, that is 61 bucks a square foot!
Like a average 2500 sf house selling for $152,000-pretty cheap.
wow what a bargain. just that pool looks like it could be a few hundred thousand
Well, you can’t beat that price per square foot, wish I coulda been in on that auction.
Check out this link on zillow…might explain why no one was interested in spending too much on this place…the neighborhood homes are nice, but miles from the size or value of this monster.
http://www.zillow.com/homes/700-jordan-blass,-melborne,-florida_rb/#/homes/for_sale/Brevard-County-FL/1556_rid/28.217177,-80.67781,28.214525,-80.684001_rect/17_zm/1_rs/1_fr/
Well that does tell the story. Even at only 1.16 M it is still 3-6 times more than the houses around it. The house across from the front door is only 278K. No wonder it sold for so little.
$1.16 million for that is ridiculous.
What a steal.
I can’t believe it sold for that little.
There is one absolutely amazing house that is pretty new, in Rochester Hills, MI that just went into foreclosure.
They said it cost $6 million to build and it looks every bit of it and it just got listed at $1.4 million.
If it is not sold in the next few days I would be amazed.
There is another guy building a stone mansion in Bloomfield Hills right now that has to be about 25,000 square feet and the surrounding homes are about half a million to a $1.5 million.
Utterly insane.
Venom…………..Totally agree with you on that deal….unvelievable, but I agree with the realtor who said that place is gonna’ take BIG, beaucoup bucks to update & make it look like it should. But I think that place is Seriously Ugly and overdone in the extreme.
I’ve lived in St. Clair Shores, MI all my life and used to sell (what was considered 4/5 years ago) high-end real estate, and I still have access to one of the MLS’s in metro-Detroit. If you know specifically which homes those are, could you share the knowledge, please? I still (for whatever useless reason
keep abreast of the local market and I’d love look up the houses & check ‘em out. Thanks much, in advance if you can!
Barney,
The Rochester home is 2641 Heights View Ct and the MLS# is 210062319.
You have to go see it and walk around the property, it is stunning, almost criminal it is selling for that cheap.
The idiot agent/company handling it damaged a gorgeous $10,000 side door by taking off the door handle and lock and screwing on a lock box and a padlock hinge.
The address is of Bloomfield Hills one that is being built is 1524 Groton.
Trust me, you can’t miss it.
I think it is a Chaldean guy that owns supermarkets that is building it.
I love Grosse Pointe.
It is so sad to see houses on Lakeshore selling in the one million dollar range.
Had a buddy that lived out there in college so I got to go through Art Van’s house, The Barn and some others out there. Always used to go to the Hunt Club.
I love The Beach out there in St. Clair Shores, used to go there a lot too years ago.
Thanks, Venom…..I appreciate it, for sure. I got a look at the house on Heights View, and (sorry!) but I don’t care for the house at all, however you’re definitely right in saying someone’s gonna’ get a Helluva’ BIG deal on that place….it is huge.
And went to Bing/Live Earth to look at the house on Groton, but it hasn’t been updated yet….still looks like it’s got the original late fifties/early sixties ranch on it, if it is indeed, the right address…oh well. Hey, I’ve got a lot of fun & interesting sites to relay to you about the Grosse Pointes, if you’re interested, which you sound like you are. Write to me at “bsn1@comcast.net”….I’d very much like to worship and/or destroy homes with you since we seem to be so much on the same page when it comes to “Tellin’ it like it IS!”
Write me.
Speechless… Never heard of the guy.
The price is indeed ridiculous.