Venezuelan oil executive Alain J. Viergutz has listed his waterfront mansion in Key Biscayne for $19.8 million, according to property records and a listing on Redfin. The move comes just days after U.S. Army Delta Force commandos captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, in Caracas.
The property, located at 100 Cape Florida Drive, is being marketed by Lucia Marin of One Sotheby’s International Realty. Mansion Global was the first to report on the listing.
Viergutz serves as president of Grupo Centec, a company that provides services to Venezuela’s oil industry. He was previously president of the Venezuelan Oil Chamber.
Records show Viergutz purchased the 8,200-square-foot home for $11 million in 2021. Built in 2007 on a 0.4-acre lot, the residence features four bedrooms, four bathrooms, a half-bathroom, a pool and a dock. Viergutz also sold another Key Biscayne home for $17.4 million in 2021.
On January 3rd, U.S. forces conducted an operation that led to the detention of Maduro and Flores following airstrikes on Venezuelan air defenses by American fighter jets and bombers.
“It is too soon to measure the full scale of the impact of the capture and Trump’s vague plans for the U.S. oversight of Venezuela.”
Miami-Dade County has seen significant real estate activity from Venezuelan nationals in recent years; Doral hosts one of the largest Venezuelan communities in the United States.
Last year, after deportation protections were removed for many Venezuelans by the Trump administration, rental vacancies increased and rents fell to their lowest point in three years in Doral.
“More Venezuelan-related listings could be in the future. But, as appraiser Jonathan Miller pointed out in his Substack ‘Housing Notes,’ Maduro’s capture did little to rattle U.S. consumers and the housing market nationwide.”
