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This time of year in South Florida is marked by the return of the luxury car-carriers that ferry down the elegant vehicles of the rich and famous. It seems people are packing up their Hampton whites and heading for warmer climbs. Funny how it coincides with the return of the turkey vultures.

Anyway, Palm Beach Daily News real estate reporter Darrell Hofheinz has tallied up all the mind-boggling mansion sales that went down this past summer to update snowbirds on their new neighbors. Although most of the sales are to and from mystery trusts and Delaware LLCs, well, that's Palm Beach for ya.

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On the other side of the pond (Lake Worth Lagoon), we'll just mention the stunning defeat handed to GL Homes in the Ag Reserve, and move on to a smaller bump in the road for Minto homes in Westlake. The developer can no longer use a right-of-way it was counting on to save it time and money. Oops.

And for any parent who sacrificed a bit of their sanity to take their child to Chuck E. Cheese, there's soon to be an alternative that will offer a little happy time for grown-ups 🍹 while the kiddos use golf putters like ninjas or Jedi knights to maim each other.

Tiger Woods frees parents everywhere from grip of the mouse (not that mouse)

When I was a kid, Chuck E. Cheese was a rat. No, really. Now he's a mouse apparently 🐭, but that's besides the point. Parents everywhere should thank Greg Bartoli, a former Wall Street banker who had a dream of a venue with classy adult beverages and things to keep kids out of their hair for one blessed night.

That dream is Tiger Woods' PopStroke putting and dining venue, which is opening in Delray Beach next month. Hallelujah.

Lot that once sold for 'love and affection' fetches $12.1 million

Pulte Group scored a big win when it convinced five different owners east of Military Trail to sell neighboring properties so it could build a 210-unit townhome complex. The land is mostly wooded and would have been considered rural not too long ago.

One owner didn't want to comment on the sale, saying it was like 'winning the lottery.' You don't want people to know lest they come knocking on your door for money. The largest property was once owned by a man and his brother-in-law. The brother-in-law sold the man his portion in 1993 for "love and affection" and $52,000. Awwwww! 💗 It sold for $12.1 million to Pulte.

Who says rent is too high?

A beachfront house owned by the Trump family has been rented, but whether it fetched the asking price of $149,000 a month is unknown. It's near former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club, but for $149,000 a month it better come with jetpacks and a caviar-dispensing machine.

The original asking price was $195,000 a month. So is the reduction a bargain? Depends on your tax bracket I suppose.

You shall not pass!

A Palm Beach County judge ruled this month that traffic from the burgeoning city of Westlake is nothing like what may have been imagined when a right-of-way was signed decades ago linking a citrus grove to swampland.

That was the gist of an order following a more than two-year legal battle over a tiny stretch of connector road between Westlake and the Indian Trail Improvement District. It was quite a battle, but the district prevailed, saying there still needs to be room for the rural folks in Palm Beach County.

Live lightly.

Kimberly Miller is a veteran journalist for The Palm Beach Post, part of the USA Today Network of Florida. She covers real estate and how growth affects South Florida's environment. Subscribe to The Dirt for a weekly real estate roundup. If you have news tips, please send them to kmiller@pbpost.com. Help support our local journalism, subscribe today. 

This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Post: Palm Beach County real estate sales and tiger woods' pop stroke is opening