A Palm Beach house has hit the market — priced at $14.95 million — on the street that runs alongside The Mar-a-Lago Club in the security zone closed to through-traffic when President-elect Donald Trump is at his private club.
The six-bedroom property at 129 Woodbridge Road will be sold with a perk available to all homeowners on the street. They have the option to get guest privileges at The Mar-a-Lago Club without paying the club’s initiation fee — said to be as much as $1 million — because of an agreement Trump worked out years ago with the town. Under that agreement, the homebuyer would be required to complete an interview process with club officials and pay annual dues.
“This is the only street on the island that holds this declaration-of-use agreement with Trump, making it truly one of a kind,” says the new sales listing for the house held by Douglas Elliman Real Estate.
The two-story house on Woodbridge Road is the third house east of South Ocean Boulevard. Mar-a-Lago’s 17.5 acres, with Trump’s famous landmarked mansion-turned-club, is just across the street.
The house is next door to one owned by Trump’s sister, Elizabeth Trump Grau, and directly across Woodbridge Road from one of the two single-family homes owned by a company for years controlled by Donald Trump. Another company linked to the president-elect owns an oceanfront house nearby.
Just listed for sale at $14.95 million, this house at 129 Woodbridge Road stands on the street that borders President-elect Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club. The six-bedroom property is being marketed with an option for a free access to the club, a perk negotiated years ago by Trump and Palm Beach officials.
The just-listed house at 129 Woodbridge Road and its two-story guesthouse by the pool were built in 1972. The residence has 4,810 square feet of living space, inside and out and stands on a lot of about a third of an acre.
A photo of The Mar-a-Lago Club taken several years ago shows houses on Woodbridge Road, bordering the club property at the upper left.
The property last changed hands in 2013 for a recorded $2.25 million.
The house is owned through a family trust in the name of the late George Buff III, who was married to the late Clara Buff, records show. George Buff III’s father made his fortune by helping develop, in 1948, the first disposable aluminum pie pan, according to published reports. Penny Plate of Mount Laurel, New Jersey, continues to manufacture foil pans and other containers.
An aerial photo looking north shows a just-listed Palm Beach house at 129 Woodbridge Road in the foreground between the two houses with the red roofs. The house is in the Estate Section neighborhood that closes to through traffic when President-elect Donald Trump is at his Mar-a-Lago Club.
The sales listing describes two primary bedroom suites in the main house — an en-suite bedroom on the ground floor and another upstairs with a walk-in closet among its features.
The Palm Beach house and guesthouse at 219 Woodbridge Road face an extensive pool patio. The property on the street next to The Mar-a-Lago Club was just listed for sale at $14.95 million.
With a so-called “flex” room, the layout offers “ample space for entertaining,” the sales listing says. Pocket-style glass doors lead from the living room to a patio by the pool.
The guesthouse has a ground-floor living area and, on the upper level, an en-suite bedroom. Behind the guesthouse is a gated side yard.
Glass doors in the living area look out to the pool patio at 129 Woodbridge Road, a Palm Beach house just listed for $14.95 million on the street immediately north of President-elect Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club.
When Trump is at Mar-a-Lago, security officers shut down South Ocean Boulevard in the neighborhood, opening the road only to property owners or their authorized representatives or workers. The security zone runs north from the club property for seven blocks, or about half a mile, to North County Road.
Because the area is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean on one side and the Intracoastal Waterway on the other, the roadblock effectively divides the town in two, forcing through traffic to detour across bridges into West Palm Beach and back.
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