A guide to the Florida getaways of Toronto’s wealthiest

Galen and Hilary Weston
Loblaw titans
They own a sprawling oceanside house in Windsor, their 168-hectare, 300-home private luxury community. The house has a fountain and neoclassical courtyard.

Kimberley Newport-Mimran and Joe Mimran
Design duo
They bought a three-bedroom, 3,483-square-foot home with a pool in 2011 for $2.14 million.

John Bitove
Satellite radio exec
The Raptors co-founder bought a 10,494-square-foot, eight-bedroom palace in 2002 for $6.3 million. It backs onto a Jack Nicklaus–designed golf course.

Larry Tanenbaum
Chair of MLSE and Kilmer Van Nostrand
The most powerful name in Toronto sports bought a waterfront lot for $21 million in 2008, then had designer-builder to the stars Joe Brennan construct an 8,000-square-foot home with space for Larry and Judy, and their three children’s families.

Julian Bharti
Merchant banker
The eldest son of Forbes and Manhattan founder Stan Bharti (and, perhaps most famously, the man who paid $89,000 to smooch Elizabeth Hurley at an Elton John AIDS fundraiser) owns a 3,843-square-foot house with four bedrooms, four and a half baths, a lap pool and a putting green. It’s on the market for $6.5 million.

Robert Julien
Investor
The CEO of real estate investment firm the Kolter Group bought an oceanside 11,986-square-foot, nine-bed, 10-bath estate for $16.5 million in 2005.

Jim DeGasperis
Developer
The president of Con-Strada Construction owns a condo in a seaside resort called Addison on the Ocean, with a private beach, two swimming pools and full-time cabana staff.

Mike Wekerle
Chair and founder of Difference Capital, and a CBC Dragon
In 2014, Bay Street’s rock and roll financier bought a $13.4-million, 12,533-square-foot mansion, which was built for the Anheuser-Busch family in 1938. It has six bedrooms, 11 bathrooms and 160 metres of deep-water frontage.

George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg
Superstar interior designers
They bought a three-bedroom, two-bath, 1,820-square-foot 1950s bungalow in 1997 for $365,000, and renovated extensively.

Stephan Weishaupt
Founder of the Avenue Road interior design store
He bought this 1932 art deco house on Biscayne Bay for $1.74 million in 2013. It has five bedrooms and five and a half baths over 4,128 square feet, and is the site of a bash for designer types during Art Basel every year.

Rana and Richard Florida
Creative Class personalities
After the market meltdown, they pounced on this 1,800-square-foot, two-bedroom, three-bathroom Miami Beach condo on Biscayne Bay.

Christine Ralphs
Fashion designer
The co-founder of Club Monaco and current co-owner of Lloyd Ralphs Design has an 800-square-foot cabana-style condo with ocean views in Surfside. Her business partner, Michelle Lloyd Bermann, lives in a 1,200-square-foot two-bedroom condo with wraparound balconies just steps away.