Record home sale at $30.3 million closes for Longboat Key property

The sale of a Longboat Key beachfront property that closed Thursday set a Sarasota County price record for the second time after doing the same in late 2020.

Located behind the gates of the Longboat Key Club, the property at 845 Longboat Club Road — known as Serenissima, “the most serene” in Italian — sold for $30.3 million. The same property sold in November, 2020 for $16.5 million, then the top of the local market.

Realtor Rich Polese, who founded Compass Sarasota, was the listing agent. Judy Kepecz-Hays of Coldwell-Banker affiliate The Hays Group represented the buyers, who were not immediately disclosed. Documents on the sale had yet to be filed with Sarasota County on Thursday.