Billionaire Winifred Johnson-Marquart, an heiress to the SC Johnson fortune, has sold her Palm Beach property for $16.7 million. The sale comes two months after she and her husband, musician and producer Mike Marquart, purchased a landmarked home on the island for $30 million.
The buyers of the 449 Australian Avenue residence are Victor and Julia Tolkan, according to reporting by the Palm Beach Daily News. Shelly Newman from the Corcoran Group represented the sellers in the transaction, while Dana Landry of Dana Edward Landry brought in the buyers.
Johnson-Marquart is known as the daughter of Samuel Curtis Johnson Jr., who led SC Johnson’s expansion with products such as Glade air fresheners, Off! insect repellent, and Pledge furniture polish. These brands contributed significantly to building SC Johnson into a billion-dollar company.
The recently sold home was acquired by Johnson-Marquart and her husband last year for $15.9 million. Built in 2017 on a 0.2-acre lot, it features four bedrooms, five bathrooms, one half-bathroom, and covers 3,600 square feet. The couple listed it for $17 million in September.
In October, they purchased Villa Banyan—a 7,500-square-foot historic home—for $30 million.
Palm Beach’s real estate market continues to see high-value transactions as its peak season begins. Earlier this month saw coffee industry executive Bob Stiller find a buyer for his lakefront estate listed at $84 million; private equity billionaire Greg Mondre’s teardown went pending at an asking price of $39.5 million after he previously bought an oceanfront lot for $58 million; and Ronald Clarke acquired a waterfront compound in North Palm Beach’s Lost Tree Village community from William Wrigley Jr., heir to the Wrigley chewing gum legacy, for $97.5 million.
