Champ d’Or Snapped Up by a Family, Sellers Very Pleased With Sale

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“Sellers very pleased with sale” — boy if that isn’t the understatement of the century! Details of Friday’s sale of Champ d’Or by auction up in Denton are eeking out. I got word from Laura Brady with Concierge Auctions that the buyers are definitely a family who apparently plans to live in the 40,000 square foot mansion. And that makes me so happy.

And the Denton Record-Chronicle apparently got in a word with the owner,  cellphone mogul Al Goldfield.

Goldfield said he’s happy a family will be living there, and happy that the megamansion wasn’t purchased as an investment property.

“They are going to get a great house at a great price,” Goldfield said.

About that price: I am digging, of course, and beg you to stay tuned. But a sharp reader brought up a very good point in the comments:

The registration requirements stated that anyone who registered was required to place a bid at or above the minimum reserve and if they didn’t place a dollar amount it was assumed they were bidding at the minimum starting bid. This would mean that at least the house will sell at 10.3 million.

So there’s a clue. I do recall Joan Eleazer, who I hope is getting ready to set sail for a celebratory cruise on The World (though I hear she has some contracts pending, so probably busy working as we speak) telling me Goldfield might even take $15 million for the property. The Goldfields, meanwhile, still have a home in the vicinity of Champ and a second home at the Broadmore in Colorado Springs, CO.

 

Candy Evans, founder and publisher of CandysDirt.com, is one of the nation’s leading real estate reporters.

9 Comments

  1. Rick Payton on April 1, 2012 at 11:36 pm

    WOW what a house I would love to have been on the grand tour!!! I love it when these big ones sell!

  2. Rick Payton on April 1, 2012 at 11:36 pm

    WOW what a house I would love to have been on the grand tour!!! I love it when these big ones sell!

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