Furniture heir lists $10M estate in east Manatee County — helipad optional

A 30-acre estate and home in northeast Manatee County has hit the market for $10 million, the largest mainland listing in the county currently on the MLS. 

The home, at 1245 Mill Creek Road in the Foxleigh neighborhood, was built in 2021 by Talon Home Builders, according to the listing. The agent is Bev Murray of the Murray Group; it was initially listed Aug. 1.  

The current owners of the property, on the banks of the Manatee River, are Douglas Baker and Lauren Crist, Manatee County property records show. Baker paid $1.42 million for the site in 2019, according to the county property appraiser’s office. Baker and Crist also have an entity dubbed River Retreat Farm on the property, records show. Baker’s relatives, in 1954 in Sarasota, founded Tropitone — what’s now a California-based outdoor casual furniture brand and manufacturer. The company, which maintains a facility in Manatee County, is now owned by luxury lifestyle brand Brown Jordan.