This $16 Million Florida Estate Sprawls Over 1.7 Acres With 4 Guest Cottages

A former partner at Goldman Sachs has popped his colorful Florida compound on the market for $15.95 million.

The Vero Beach spread is being sold by Frank Brosens, who spent 15 years at Goldman Sachs before starting his own firm, Taconic Capital. Records indicate Brosens acquired the then-vacant 1.7-acre parcel back in 2013 for $2.5 million. He soon built a multi-structure estate that comprises a main house and four separate guest cottages, with a total of 13 bedrooms and 14 full bathrooms. Michael Merrill and Johnny DelPrete of the Exclusive Group at Douglas Elliman hold the listing.

Built in 2014, the property is the largest in the exclusive, master-planned oceanfront village of Windsor. The spacious main house is anchored by a great room with all of your formal entertaining spaces, from a window-wrapped living room to a stainless-steel chef’s kitchen. The primary suite looks out on the surrounding grounds and is paired with a whitewashed bathroom with a soaking tub. Additional highlights range from a billiards room and a ping-pong room to wine storage within the laundry room.

Outside, a landscaped courtyard features a mosaic-tiled 53-foot lap pool with an adjoining spa, and just beyond is a covered patio with a fireplace. Steps lead down to a grassy area, with an azure-tiled waterfall mimicking the descent. Two of the guest cottages have two bedrooms, and the other two have three bedrooms, while a four-car garage services all the structures.

The compound’s British West Indies style gives it singularity within Windsor, an architecturally cohesive community master-planned by Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk. Still, within the strict design guidelines, homes in Windsor manage to stand out among one another. A modern-minded house designed by the late modernist architect Hugh Newell Jacobsen hit the market last year for $11.5 million, and earlier this year, a plantation-style retreat carried a price tag of $5.8 million.

Residents have access to a beach club, a golf course designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr., equestrian and tennis facilities, a fitness center, a village store, a world-class wine-storage facility, and dedicated concierge services.

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