Oceanfront Anastasia island mansion owned by North Florida philanthropist sets new sales record

A resplendent oceanfront mansion owned by retired banking executive and prominent civic leader Allen Lastinger has sold for $5.75 million — a new record for a single-family zoned property on Anastasia Island.

Set on nearly 3 acres of pristine St. Augustine coastline, the 11,300 square-foot Villa Vistas at 8342 A1A South changed hands on October 21 after six months on the market.

Prolific mother-daughter real estate team Kim Martin Fisher and Jennifer Martin Faulkner of Douglas-Elliman held the listing.

Now retired, Lastinger is considered one of North Florida’s most prominent public figures, previously leading Gainesville-based Barnett Bank (now Bank of America) and serving on a number of influential boards throughout his storied career.

The Florida Gator founded the Lastinger Center for Learning at UF’s College of Education, served as a past president on the UF Foundation Board and previously led the school’s Gator Boosters organization.

Just last month, Lastinger gifted an “impactful” sum the University of North Florida’s Allen Lastinger Center for Florida History that will enable new programs and initiatives.

The financier’s devotion to his home state was applied to the painstaking 2001 design and construction of Villa Vistas, which consists almost entirely of local materials, including coral stone fireplaces and pecky cypress ceilings.

The home boasts 210 feet of oceanfront, along with 6 bedrooms, 11.5 baths, an elevator spanning three floors, an expansive pool and home theater.

In a prior interview, Delores Lastinger rhapsodized about the expansive marine panoramas afforded by the property’s perch — with both the Atlantic Ocean and Matanzas River in grand view.