If you think your man cave is badass, check out the Wall Street tech toys in this state-of-the-art Fort Lauderdale compound.
The 12,350-square-foot luxury estate features a stock trading room with 10 monitors, a news ticker and two black-out-proof internet providers in case Russia gets hack happy again. Sure, it’s a little nerdier than an NFL game in 80-inch hi-def, but it’s a more utilitarian fan cave.
These up-for-grabs trade tools currently belong to Dr. Neil S. Schneider, a former medical doctor-turned-day trader. He and his wife Kerstin are moving on, listing their expansive compound for nearly $13 million with Niki Higgins of Douglas Elliman’s luxury real estate firm.
“Dr Schneider day traded after he sold his medical practice,” says Higgins. “The Schneiders are downsizing because their children have all left home and they want to do more traveling.”
If that stock trading space isn’t couch-potato-chill enough, no worries—there’s still plenty of entertaining space to unwind, including an outrageous kitchen, pool, movie theater, and a limousine which comes with the sale (you heard that right!). For $13 million, Green Book’s Viggo Mortensen might even be available to drive you around the deep south.
The massive estate was built in 2004 by architect Randall Stofft of Stofft Cooney Architects. With 16,000 square feet of indoor-outdoor space (and a boat slip), the property spans 250 feet of private frontage along the Intracoastal Waterway and another 111 feet of deep water canal. The “concrete palace” is fortified with a full-house propane generator as well as hurricane-proof windows and doors.
Lavish interiors boast painted murals, carved filigree moldings, iron railings, custom woodwork, and dangling chandeliers beneath colossal medallion ceilings—including in the lofty double-height great room.
Iron balconies overlook the great room and its grand staircase. A large wooden library showcases coffered ceilings, a climate-controlled humidor closet, built-in shelves, a fireplace and two royal throne chairs beside a custom wood chess table.
Here, it’s difficult to distinguish where the art begins and the furnishings end. A Disney-style Fantasia-like dining room charms beneath a spectacular art ceiling and gorgeous crystal chandeliers amid another garden mural—in what can only be called formal floral fantasy.
Another medallion ceiling rises over a bright, circular breakfast room bounded by window walls with views of the property’s soaring palms, lush gardens and fountains. Even the colorful aquarium bar is framed by custom wood cabinetry.
The residence offers six bedrooms, seven-and-a-half bathrooms, a movie theater, dog spa with custom pooch bath, and a double-island chef’s kitchen with enough elbow room for four simultaneous Jamie Olivers (God forbid). Stock traders, movie buffs, animal lovers and foodies are covered here.
The Schneiders themselves are gourmands, judging from a 1996 published article in the South Florida Sun Sentinel where the family baked tunnbrod (a traditional Swedish bread) in a pizza oven in their previous Coral Springs home.
This Fort Lauderdale estate offers a more impressive wood-burning pizza oven on a loggia overlooking the waterway and an infinity edge pool with three heaters (to cover any night chills).
“The home was meticulously custom designed and built for a boating family living beyond the highest standards—possibly a family relocating from a high income tax state or with children attending Pinecrest School (one of the top schools in the country),” says Higgins. “No detail was overlooked. I haven’t seen another home with such a magnificent outdoor loggia on the Intracoastal Waterway.”
There’s more. The residence also has a 1000-plus bottle wine cellar, limousine-ready garage lift, and a striking eight-piece imported Mexican marble wall. But it’s the trading room, limo and waterway location that raises the stock of this luxury estate.