From To: [email protected] Subject: just fyi re black's house @ 1930 SOB for $23.1M Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 01:18:11 +0000 Conrad Black's Palm Beach mansion sells for $23.1M; buyer is California family By Darrell Hofheinz Daily News Real Estate Writer Updated: 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 28, 2011 Posted: 5:54 p.m. Thursday, April 28, 2011 The Palm Beach mansion once used to help secure bail for former media magnate Conrad Black who is awaiting re- sentencing by a Chicago federal court judge on convictions of fraud and obstruction of justice has sold for $23.1 million, according to a warranty deed recorded Thursday by the Palm Beach County Clerk's office. Black sold his ocean-to-lake estate north of Sloan's Curve at 1930 S. Ocean Blvd. through an entity called LJC Property Holdings LLC of Media, Pa. The buyers are a young family from California, said broker Lawrence Moens of Lawrence A. Moens Associates, who had the sales listing for about two months. The buyers' trust was administered by West Palm Beach attorney Maura Ziska and named after the property's address, according to the deed. The deed was filed Tuesday. "I had great sellers and buyers," Moens said Thursday, describing Black and his wife, Barbara Amiel Black, as "gracious people? Moens added that he had received two written offers from other potential buyers interested in the house. The Corcoran Group's Paulette Koch and Dana Koch, her son, represented the family that bought the property. She would not provide their names Thursday but did say that they were "thrilled" with their purchase. With five bedrooms, six bathrooms and a guesthouse, the British Colonial-style home was built in 1973 but underwent a top- to-bottom renovation in 2000. It has a "total' square footage of 21,672, according to records at the county property appraiser's office. A tunnel beneath South Ocean Boulevard connects the main property to the beach. "The property is on both bodies of water — the lake and the o