Weeks after hurricanes, St. Pete Beach house sells for $7.5M

A 4,950-square-foot home in the Pass-a-Grille Beach neighborhood of St. Pete Beach has sold for $7.5 million.

The house is at 1103 Gulf Way and according to Pinellas County property records was bought by Mitchell and Dorrie Eviston.

The sellers were Christopher and Tamara Morrison. They paid $1.13 million in 2005 for the property, records show. 

The house offers views of the Gulf of Mexico and access to local beaches.

According to a listing on the website for Smith & Associates Real Estate, which represented the Morrisons and announced the sale, the house has five bedrooms and six baths. It sits on 0.19 acres.

(A press release issued by Smith says the home sold for $8 million, the asking price, but online county record show it sold for $7.5 million. The release also states the property is 5,000 square feet while the listing puts it at 4,950 square feet.)

St. Pete Beach suffered extensive damage from heavy flooding during Hurricanes Helene and Milton earlier this month. But that didn’t derail the sale, which according to the deed, closed on Oct. 24.

Melinda Pletcher, the listing agent and a former city commissioner, says in the statement that the sale shows the state’s beaches “will always offer an enduring beauty and continue to attract new residents.”

“While we have rebuilding to do in our beloved beach community, we also have an incredible resilience and a collective passion to revitalize what we cherish so much,” she says.

According to a spokesperson, the house was undamaged in the storm. That's in part because the previous owners were able to get a variance for restoration and “hardening."