Tour $60 million mansion in Delray Beach, Florida

The owner of a beachfront mansion in Delray Beach, Florida, is looking to shatter a local price record with a home that delivers old-school Italian flair above ground and hidden personality below.

While the upper levels are adorned with 300 stone-carved columns, vaulted ceilings and even a fresco painted in Florence, Italy, the home’s subterranean space is packed with modern luxuries including a super car gallery, glowing tequila bar and a steel vault packed with piles of cash.

The two distinct design themes are wrapped in a limestone-clad residence located on the town’s ultra-high-end South Ocean Boulevard. The 23,000-plus square-foot home is called Mar Pietra, Italian for “sea stone.”

“So much stone went into this house, I thought it was appropriate,” owner Massimo Musa told CNBC.

Musa founded and sold several companies in the eye-care industry. He also develops real estate and built Mar Pietra with this now ex-wife.

The passion project took five years to complete and employed dozens of craftsmen, painters and sculptors, many of them from Italy. Tons of limestone were shipped here from Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula; hand-carved marble made the journey from Verona, Italy; and massive panels of cedar arrived from Colombia.

According to the listing, the mega home sits on 100 feet of beachfront. There is a main residence and guest house and all together nine bedrooms, 12 full baths and seven half baths. The climate-controlled subterranean garage adds 4,000 more square feet, with even more space added via covered areas such as a luxurious loggia that houses another kitchen, bar, lounge and dining area.

The massive estate is five times the size of the average Delray Beach home sold during the first quarter, and its eight-figure price tag is more than 18 times the area’s almost $3.3 million average sales price for a luxury home, according to the Elliman Report. The report defines luxury homes as the top 10% of sales.

The highest sale price ever achieved in Delray Beach was $34 million for a listing also located on South Ocean Boulevard that sold in 2021. According to public records, the top sale price per square foot was also recorded in 2021, at just under $2,600 per square foot. Mar Pietra’s list price would put it right in line with that value metric.

The trophy home’s massive footprint and its giant oceanfront lawn are a rare sight on this strip of beach in Palm Beach County. According to Musa, that is because of the lot’s unique zoning history.

Public records show he bought the lot, along with the lot across the street on the Intracoastal Waterway, for $9 million back in in 2002. At the time, the…