A peek inside the most expensive home for sale in Weston, Florida

This 12,323-square-foot mansion recently hit the market with a $14 million price tag, making it the most expensive listing the city of Weston, Florida, has ever seen.

The 27-square-mile city is about 31 miles northwest of Miami in the western-most part of Broward County. Its northern and western borders flank the Florida Everglades.

The seven-bedroom, 11-bath lakefront residence is in the Windmill Ranch Estates community, Weston’s first residential development dating back to 1984, according the city’s website. Weston has a population of 68,305, according the University of Florida’s Bureau of Economics and Business Research. Its median household income is $107,908, according to the latest census data.

“Weston is far enough from dense urban centers like Fort Lauderdale and Miami to give it a peaceful suburban feel, but it still gives residents easy access to bigger city life,” said Senada Adzem, the property’s listing agent.

Real estate records show the most expensive home to ever sell in Weston fetched $7 million in 2012. That home, also located in the Windmill Ranch Estates, spanned 25,000 square feet with a price per square foot of $280.

The residence at 3030 Meadow Lane, built in 2017, according to the listing, is about half the size of that record-setting mansion, but its owners are asking double the price, making it four times the price per square foot at $1,136.

If the home sells for anywhere near its asking price, it will shatter a local record and put the home’s value on par with some of Broward’s biggest sales 25 miles to the east in Fort Lauderdale, where you’ll find the county’s priciest real estate. In April, a waterfront home in Fort Lauderdale sold for $23 million, breaking the record for the highest sale in the county, according to Multiple Listing Service.

For context, the average sale price for a single-family home in Broward County was $658,274 in October, up 19.3% over last year. Sales volume last month across the entire county totaled $912.4 million, according to the Miami Realtors October market summary.

“Weston has its share of estates valued at $10 million or more,” said Adzem. “The Monarch Estate is the first of this magnitude on the market. We expect to see more of these multimillion-dollar properties for sale as time goes on, given the high demand in the luxury sector.”

Here’s a look at what makes this Weston home stand out.

3030 Meadow Lane, also known as the Monarch Estate, was named after the monarch butterflies that are attracted to the flowering bushes planted around the property.

“Part of what distinguishes the Monarch Estate is that this is the kind of sprawling sanctuary typically seen in Palm Beach,” said Adzem.