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David Critzer | REALTOR®

Downing-Frye Realty, Inc.
8950 Fontana Del Sol Way
Suite #100
Naples, FL 34109 
Email: David@DavidFlorida.com

239-285-1086

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Secretive land trust assembles $311M in real estate in Port Royal

Laura Layden | Fort Myers News-Press & Naples Daily News

In April 2025, a mystery buyer purchased three beachfront properties in Port Royal for $225 million.

The sale along Gordon Drive in Naples made national headlines as the largest residential sale in Florida’s history.

More than a year later, the same trust purchased a neighboring property — and in September, it sold one of its other three properties to a different land trust for a lot more money — adding to the intrigue.

Yasmin Saad, co-founder of The Saad Team, a luxury real estate firm in Naples, recently noted the fourth purchase on Facebook after discovering it in a data search. Although the sale happened a few months ago, it drew little attention.

She shared and public records confirmed the next-door property — at 2100 Gordon Drive — sold for $86 million to the same secretive land trust on June 10, 2026.

Read the full article on naplesnews.com.

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