Palm Beach's Gaelforce listed for $19.5m by jet-setters Gael and Francesco Boglione

Gaelforce, one of Palm Beach’s most prized trophy homes, owned by the England-based jet setters Gael and Francesco Boglione is for sale for $19.5 million.

The 1940s Spanish Mission-inspired house is a well-documented piece of Palm Beach real estate not only because of its deep waterfront position, jetty or boathouse, but because of the many connections the Bogliones bring to their property interests.

Take their 17th-century Queen Anne estate Petersham House near London on the Thames River they bought in the 1990s thanks to their friend Mick Jagger’s recommendation and later restored into what is often billed as one of England’s most beautiful homes.

Then there’s the nursery next door that features the Petersham Nurseries Café that for years was run by renowned chef Skye Gyngell, who earned it a Michelin star.

Likewise, their Palm Beach house was bought from Gael’s friend socialite Amanda Nankervis for almost $5.5 million in 2006 and, according to a 2016 story inVogue Living, the builder John Fielding, of Bellevarde Constructions, was commissioned after a heli-skiing trip in Greenland and introductions to its architect Grant Cheyne were made over dinner with Neil Perry.

More pertinently for their bank account, the listing with LJ Hooker Palm Beach’s Peter Robinson for $19.5 million comes amid one of the strongest prestige property markets in almost 20 years as high-end buyers make the most of low interest rates to splurge on luxury weekenders and mansions fit for a life in lockdown.