After nixing a move to Florida, where his wife Rhea Durham was born and has family, Mark Wahlberg isn’t waiting for his new mansion to be built at Las Vegas’s uber-luxury resort community the Summit Club.
Wahlberg, who paid $15.6 million for 2.5 acres on which to build a luxury mansion in the Summit Club, has also pulled the trigger on an already built bungalow in the same ritzy Summerlin enclave, paying $14.5 million for a 7,327-square-foot home, according to Clark County property records. The two-story home has four bedrooms, four full bathrooms and two half-baths, plus a garage of almost 1,300 square feet.
Wahlberg bought the home from Discovery Land Company, co-developer of the Summit Club along with the Howard Hughes Corp., the developer of the Summerlin planned community that sprawls along the western edge of the Las Vegas Valley.
The Summit began closing on lots in 2015 and has sold out all but one of 150 original lots and is in the process of expanding the community to sell even more. Last summer, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen paid a record $36 million for 4.5 acres on which to build a sprawling estate in the Summit Club. Las Vegas Raiders owner Mark Davis has a condo there and Vegas Golden Knight owner Bill Foley has a home there, too. So does Canadian pop icon Céline Dion.
How Wahlberg, co-owner of the Wahlburgers fast-food joint on the Strip, came to own $30 million in Sin City real estate is quite the story, according to Alicia Taylor, a broker with Clear Sky Realty in Las Vegas. Taylor was not an agent in either of the Wahlberg transactions, but she spoke to the prolific actor and producer in November 2020 via a Zoom call about his desire to find a contemporary Las Vegas home in a sufficiently secure location.
Given its high-tech security that’s unlike any other in Las Vegas, with body heat tracking for any intruders on the guard-gated 555-acre site, Taylor said she suggested the Summit Club. She said Wahlberg, who was at that…