By Darrell Hofheinz, Palm Beach Daily News
A Palm Beach couple has sold a house on the North End for $18 million and bought another about a mile-and-a-half away for $12 million, newly recorded deeds show.
In the higher-dollar deal, attorney Thomas E. Harvey and his media-executive wife, Cathleen P. Black, sold their three-bedroom house at 1066 N. Ocean Blvd. to a Delaware-registered limited liability company named Creekshore LLC, a deed recorded June 11 shows.
The deed for the private sale on North Ocean Boulevard lists the buyer with a Palm Beach mailing address that matches the office of the Rabideau Klein law firm headed by attorneys Guy Rabideau and David Klein. The identity of anyone else associated with the buying entity remains cloaked, thanks to Delaware’s strict corporate privacy laws.
With 4,305 square feet of living space, the house on North Ocean Boulevard is directly across the street from two vacant oceanfront lots that sold together early this year to an as-yet-unidentified buyer at a price said to have hit $160 million.
Harvey and Black bought the house on North Ocean Boulevard in 2018 for a recorded $4.15 million and had it homesteaded as their primary residence in the latest Palm Beach County tax rolls.
They declined to comment about the two transactions.
The sale of the North Ocean Boulevard house nearly coincided with Harvey and Black’s purchase, for $12 million, of a four-bedroom house with 5,272 total square feet at 302 Via Linda. The seller in that deal was Noémi K. Neidorff, who acted as personal representative of the estate of her late husband, health-care executive Michael F. Neidorff, according to the deed recorded June 5.
Broker Rob Thomson of Waterfront Properties & Club Communities had the house on Via Linda listed at $13.95 million when it sold, the multiple listing service shows. He had originally priced it at $15 million when it entered the market in February.
Agents Ashley McIntosh and Kendall Corso of Douglas Elliman Real Estate represented Harvey and Black’s interests in their purchase on Via Linda, according to the MLS.
McIntosh confirmed for the Palm Beach Daily News that she and Corso handled the sellers’ side of 1066 N. Ocean Blvd. but she declined further comment.
Broker Ryan Serhant of Serhant confirmed he handled the buyer’s side of the sale of No. 1066 but would not discuss details of the transaction or the parties involved.
The Palm Beach Daily News has confirmed that broker Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate also played a role on the buyer’s side of No. 1066. Angle could not be reached for comment.
Serhant also handled the buyer’s side of the two vacant lots across the street when they were sold by companies controlled by Estée Lauder billionaire William P. Lauder.
With ties to New York City, Black is a former president and chair of Hearst Magazines who has served on the boards of Fortune 500 companies.
Harvey’s career in public service has included tenure as assistant secretary of veterans affairs for Congressional affairs; general counsel and Congressional liaison at the U.S. Information Agency; chief counsel and staff director of the U.S. Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee; principal deputy assistant secretary for logistics of the U.S. Navy; and deputy assistant secretary of acquisitions for the Army. He also has served as senior counsel for the Institute of International Education.
The Mediterranean-style house Harvey and Black just sold on North Ocean Boulevard was built in 2003, property records show. It occupies a quarter-acre lot on the northwest corner of List Road.
The house has high ceilings, a covered loggia, a two-car garage and impact-resistant glass doors and windows, according to a previous sales listing. When the house sold in 2018, the layout included a living room, family room, formal dining room, breakfast area and a library with its own bathroom, the MLS shows.
Built in 1961 and substantially renovated in 2019, the Palm Beach Regency-style house Harvey and Black just bought on Via Linda stands on a lot of about a third of an acre at the southwest corner of North Lake Way. Michael Neidorff had paid a recorded $6.3 million for it in 2018, property records show.
Michael Neidorff, who died at 79 in April 2022, was the longtime CEO of Centene Corp., a managed-health-care company based in St. Louis.
Among its features, the house on Via Linda has a lushly landscaped backyard with a pool area designed for “relaxation or entertaining,” Thomson’s sales listing said.
The sale of the two empty lots at 1063 and 1071 N. Ocean Blvd. was first reported in February. Angle negotiated for Lauder opposite Serhant. Combined, those lots measure 2.26 acres with about 363 feet of direct shoreline between them.
When the house at 1066 N. Ocean Blvd. sold in 2018, McIntosh handled the buyer’s side. Representing the seller in that deal was agent Ben Stein, then of Brown Harris Steven but today with Sotheby’s International Realty.