Well-known trial attorney Tony Buzbee bought a Galveston beach house listed at $4 million in the exclusive Pirates Cove neighborhood recently, The Real Deal has learned.
With a price of $992 per square foot, it was one of the most expensive listings in the Houston-area beach city. It’s the most-expensive home sold in the Galveston area since 2018, according to listing data compiled by Redfin.
The two-story residence is 10 minutes from Jamaica Beach and five minutes from the Galveston Country Club, with direct access to the West Bay. In Pirates Cove, home prices average over $1 million, according to Realtor.com, making it Galveston’s wealthiest neighbor and a prime location for the Greater Houston area’s upper crust to seek second homes and beach rentals.
With five bedrooms, including primary suites on each floor, and five-and-a-half baths, the canal-view home dwarfs most others in the area. It was remodeled in 2014 by LeBoeuf Homes to meet more modernist style standards in a sequence of pastels. The property also includes a pool and a boathouse with jet ski lifts.
The buyer was represented by House of Ho reality star agent Washington Ho. RE/MAX Leading Edge co-owner Kelly Kelley, one of Galveston’s top luxury brokers, represented the seller, Kathryn Manning.
The Houston-based personal injury lawyer has been involved in a number of high-profile cases throughout his decades-long career. He famously represented over 170 claimants during the 2008 BP Oil Spill industrial disaster. In 2021, he represented 20 women accusing Cleveland Browns quarterback DeShaun Watson of sexual misconduct. That same year, Buzbee filed a $750 million lawsuit against Houston rapper Travis Scott and Live Nation on behalf of 120 victims seeking damages after a crowd crush at the Astroworld Festival left 10 dead and over 300 concert goers injured.
The litigator, who operates the Buzbee Law Firm in the JP Chase Tower, also launched into politics in 2018. He ran for Houston mayor in the 2019 general election, finishing second in a runoff election to current Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner.