Retired NBA superstar Shaquille O’Neal just sold his lakeside mansion in Florida for $16.5 million, Sarah Paynter reported for The New York Post.
The 31,000-square-foot house sits on nearly four acres in the exclusive, gated golf community about a 30-minute drive from Orlando.
O’Neal, who retired in 2011 after making more than $286 million over the course of his basketball career, bought the house in 1993 for a little less than $4 million, according to Realtor. He first put it on the market in 2018 for $28 million, dropped the price to $21.9 million in 2019, and discounted it again to $16.5 million in 2020.
The 12-bedroom Florida home is in the exclusive Isleworth community, a 600-acre golf-club community bordering a lake that’s full of grand cypress and oak trees, and lavish estates. A website for the house touted a message for potential buyers: “Live life large, live like Shaq.”
Compass Florida’s Atlas Team agents Tiffany Pantozzi, Jared Ringel, and Chris Franciosa held the listing.
Here’s a look at the mansion O’Neal sold after nearly 28 years of ownership.