Sergio Busquets Selling Waterfront Fort Lauderdale House

Sergio Busquets of Inter Miami has listed his waterfront home near Fort Lauderdale for $9.8 million, just two years after purchasing the property.

Widely regarded as one of the top defensive midfielders in soccer, Busquets will retire from Major League Soccer at the end of this year.

Busquets and his wife, Elena Galera, purchased the seven-bedroom, six-and-a-half-bath home at 7 Seneca Road in the gated Sea Ranch Lakes community in 2023 for approximately $8.7 million. That transaction set a record for Sea Ranch Lakes, a small town located roughly five miles from Inter Miami’s Fort Lauderdale stadium.

The residence, built in 2023, offers 7,100 square feet of living space on a 0.3-acre lot with about 100 feet of frontage along Lake Seneca. Features include a three-car garage. The property is listed with Veroushka Volkert of One Sotheby’s International Realty, who also represented the previous sale.

According to an October report by ESPN, Busquets intends to pause his soccer career before exploring a transition into coaching.

“I think in the future, yes, I would like to coach, but for now I’d rather take a sabbatical,” Busquets told reporters. “It’s been a long time, with hardly any weekends. Now I want to enjoy time with my family, for myself and for them—seeing my children, being with them, traveling more, and watching football from a new perspective.”

Busquets played for FC Barcelona from 2008 until he and Lionel Messi joined Inter Miami, the MLS team whose ownership group includes brothers Jorge and Jose Mas, David Beckham, and other investors.

Messi also resides nearby. In 2023, he and his wife, Antonela Roccuzzo, spent $10.8 million on a 10,500-square-foot, eight-bedroom estate in Fort Lauderdale’s Bay Colony neighborhood. Messi additionally owns luxury condominiums in Sunny Isles Beach, including a residence at Porsche Design Tower, developed by Gil Dezer’s Dezer Development and completed in late 2016. Inter Miami, whose partners include Ares Management, is advancing work on a $1 billion mixed-use stadium project near Miami International Airport. Earlier this year, the ownership group secured a $450 million loan from JPMorgan Chase to fund the development.