Billionaire Winifred Johnson-Marquart, an heiress to the SC Johnson fortune, has sold her Palm Beach property for $16.7 million. The transaction 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 house at 449 Australian Avenue are Victor and Julia Tolkan, according to reporting by the Palm Beach Daily News. Shelly Newman of the Corcoran Group represented the sellers, while Dana Landry brought in the buyers.
Johnson-Marquart is known as the daughter of Samuel Curtis Johnson Jr., who led SC Johnson during its expansion with products such as Glade air fresheners, Off! insect repellent, and Pledge furniture polish. These products were key to building SC Johnson into a major company in cleaning supplies.
The couple acquired their former Australian Avenue residence last year for $15.9 million. Built in 2017 on a 0.2-acre lot, it features 3,600 square feet of living space with four bedrooms, five bathrooms, and one half-bathroom. They listed it for $17 million in September.
Their new purchase is Villa Banyan, a 7,500-square-foot landmarked home bought in October for $30 million.
The sale is part of a series of high-value real estate transactions on Palm Beach as activity increases during the busy season. Coffee industry figure Bob Stiller recently found a buyer for his lakefront estate listed at $84 million. Private equity executive Greg Mondre’s property asking $39.5 million also went pending this month; earlier this year he purchased a larger oceanfront lot for $58 million.
In nearby North Palm Beach’s Lost Tree Village community, Ronald Clarke—known for his work in financial technology—bought a waterfront compound from William Wrigley Jr., heir to the Wrigley chewing gum fortune, for $97.5 million.
