Sonic Automotive CEO’s sale of $7M home tops charts in Mecklenburg County

The $7.2 million sale of Sonic Automotive CEO David Bruton Smith’s home in south Charlotte topped the charts in Mecklenburg County last month.

That home sale, the deed of which was filed with the county on June 1, represents the county’s highest-priced residential transaction in Canopy MLS so far this year. County property records list Smith as the seller.

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The 9,155-square-foot home in Carmel Park has five bedrooms, six full bathrooms and three half-bathrooms. It sits on a 4.01-acre lot that includes features such as a pond, pool and spa, eight-car garage and a par-3 golf hole designed to replicate the famed seventh hole at Pebble Beach Golf Links in California.

Each month, American City Business Leads, a division of CBJ parent company American City Business Journals, pulls Mecklenburg County’s top home deeds based on sale price. Additional details come from county real estate records, the listing brokerage or Realtor.com.

Homes on the June list range in sale price from $3 million to the $7.2 million deal in Carmel Park. In addition to Carmel Park, residences can be found in the Charlotte neighborhoods of Myers Park, Eastover and Foxcroft as well as The Peninsula neighborhood in Cornelius.

Read more and check out photos of those homes here.

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