Stealth run: Realtors reveal inner workings of a secret mansion sale

A reclusive client with big-dollar designs on the transaction challenged the brokers: Sell it. But do it quietly.

  • By Brian Hartz
  • | 6:00 a.m. April 26, 2019
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Mark Wemple. Ben Mallah paid $16.5 million for a Belleair Shores mansion that belonged to Ryan Howard, a former star first baseman for the Philadelphia Phillies.
Mark Wemple. Ben Mallah paid $16.5 million for a Belleair Shores mansion that belonged to Ryan Howard, a former star first baseman for the Philadelphia Phillies.
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If you’re a realtor, how do you sell a 37,000-square-foot mansion that boasts eight bedrooms, a six-car garage and 200 feet of Gulf frontage when the super-private seller doesn’t want it publicly listed for sale?

 

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