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Buyers & Sellers: Serena Williams Lists Undeveloped Lot In Jupiter, Fla., For $6.5M

SERENA WILLIAMS has "listed a vacant 2.4-acre lot" in a private Jupiter, Fla., golf club for $6.5M. Williams bought the plot of land at The Bear's Club for $4.12M in '14. It is "one of more than 50 estate properties on the 270-acre club that features a golf course" designed by JACK NICKLAUS. Williams would have been neighbors with MICHAEL JORDAN, ERNIE ELS and MICHELLE WIE "had she built a house" (MIAMIHERALD.com, 11/10).

MOVING THE CHAINS: Former NFLer PATRICK WILLIS has sold his San Jose mansion for $4.26M -- below the $5.5M original asking price. The Mediterranean-style home with four bedrooms and five-and-a-half baths "spans more [than] 9,800 square feet on 4.3 acres of land." The property was purchased for $3.5M in '10 (MERCURYNEWS.com, 11/9)....Former NFLer BRENT JONES has bought an apartment in downtown S.F.'s "sinking and tilting Millennium Tower" for $4.15M. Jones "paid cash" for the two-bedroom, 2,819-square-foot unit on the 50th floor (SFCHRONICLE.com, 11/13)....Bengals QB ANDY DALTON has sold his home in Cincinnati for $802,000. Dalton purchased the four-bedroom home in the Mount Lookout neighborhood in August '14 for $732,000. The house has "just more than 3,000 square feet with three and a half bathrooms," a fireplace and two-car garage (BIZJOURNALS.com, 11/10).

PROTECTING THE PAINT: WNBA L.A. Sparks F CANDACE PARKER and her husband, former NBAer SHELDEN WILLIAMS, have put their home in Encino, Calif., "back on the market" for $4.39M. Set on 1.38 acres, the 7,058-square-foot Spanish estate comes "complete with a two-story entry, expansive lawn and basketball court" (LATIMES.com, 11/15)....Xavier men's basketball coach CHRIS MACK has sold his home in Crestview Hills, Ky., for $1.04M. The 7,000-square-foot house in the Summit Lakes neighborhood "features a full-size indoor pool with its own desert-air heating system that's visible from the family room." Mack in August bought a $1.9M home in the Villa Hills neighborhood. The house was "listed as having five bedrooms and seven bathrooms" and "sits on a 1.8-acre lot." It features a "gourmet kitchen, first-floor bar, outdoor pool and finished lower level with a bar, billiards area and exercise room" (BIZJOURNALS.com, 11/14).

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