Virage Bayshore penthouse sells for nearly $7 million
By Ashley Gurbal Kritzer
Tampa Bay Business Journal
Published: Jun 17, 2021

A penthouse condominium in Virage Bayshore has been sold for $6.9 million, a near-record price per square foot.

John and Pamela Keiser,who sold their David Islands home to the husband of Tampa Bay Buccaneers co-owner Darcie Glazer Kassewitz, bought the Virage penthouse the same day that sale closed, according to Hillsborough County property records.

The penthouse seller, Gretchen Shires, paid $6.605 million for the condo in February, according to county records. The condo's worth increased by 4.45% in four months, though its listing price was even more ambitious: Toni Everett, founder of the Toni Everett Co., initially marketed the penthouse for $7.9 million.

Everett was not immediately available for comment Thursday.

The purchase price breaks down to $1,015 per square foot. It is the second-highest price per square foot ever paid for a condominium in Hillsborough County; the top price is $1,010 per square foot, which another Virage penthouse sold for in February, according to the Multiple Listing Service.

Home sales — whether single-family properties or condos — in Tampa rarely top $1,000 per square foot. That is a price range more commonly seen in Sarasota, though the home the Keisers sold to the Kassewitz family clocked in at $1,258 per square foot.

Nine of the 10 most expensive condos sold in Tampa in the last decade were in Virage; the other unit was in the Bellamy, according to Hillsborough County property records. Virage, which includes 71 units in 24 stories, offered the city's first new condos since the Great Recession.

Virage likely won't hold those records for long: Units in The Edition Tampa, a tower that includes boutique hotel rooms and branded condominiums, will likely crush the $1,000 per square foot threshold, as will the Ritz-Carlton Residences.