House built in 1999 brings $11.29 million on Palm Beach’s North End

Darrell Hofheinz, Palm Beach Daily News
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A four-bedroom house at 333 Eden Road on the North End has sold for $11.29 million, the price recorded recently with the deed.
A four-bedroom house at 333 Eden Road on the North End has sold for $11.29 million, the price recorded recently with the deed.

A Georgian-style house that hadn’t changed hands in nearly a decade has sold off market for a recorded $11.29 million on the North End, according to the deed recorded last week..

Eileen Hodges Small and her businessman husband, Jeffrey Phillips Small, sold the four-bedroom house at 333 Eden Road, the deed shows. He served as a trustee of Mimi’s Trust in the sale.

They buyer was a Delaware-registered limited liability company named after the address. Because of Delaware's strict corporate privacy laws, no other information about the buyer was immediately available in public records.

The house has 6,247 square feet of living space, inside and out, records show.

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The house was built by Wittmann Building Corp. in 1999, according to building records. Five streets north of the Palm Beach Country Club, the property is the third one east of North Lake Way. The lot measures about a third of an acre.

Eileen Small paid $3.34 million for the house in late 2011 and a year later transferred ownership to the trust that just sold it. The couple had the house homesteaded in the latest property tax rolls. Jeffrey Small’s career included extensive real estate development in Atlanta, where the couple has longtime ties.

The house features a curved staircase, a fireplace in the main living area, and sets of French doors overlooking the pool and garden, according to a previous sales listing. There’s a deck off the main bedroom, and the pool cabana has a full bathroom.

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Agent Liza Pulitzer of Brown Harris Stevens represented the buyer’s side of the sale nine years ago. She returned with colleague Whitney McGurk, also of Brown Harris Stevens, to handle the seller’s side of the recent transaction. McGurk confirmed their involvement but declined to discuss the sale.

Agent Stephen Hall of Compass Florida confirmed he acted on behalf of the buyer, but declined to comment further.

In the 2011 transaction, agent Mary Boykin of Sotheby’s International Realty represented the sellers, Katherine and H. Mitchell Watson Jr.

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Darrell Hofheinz writes about real estate in his weekly “Beyond the Hedges” column. He welcomes news items about Palm Beach real estate for this column. Email dhofheinz@pbdailynews.com, call 820-3831 or tweet @PBDN_Hofheinz.

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