This $37.5M Turks and Caicos Compound Comes With Celebrity (and Texan!) Cred 
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What does it take to keep up with the Joneses? Or the Willises, for that matter? If you’re looking to buy this Parrot Cay multi-home compound — formerly owned by Bruce Willis and now, insurance moguls Robyn and Mark Jones — expect to shell out $37.5 million.
The beyond-fabulous, Asian-inspired Turks and Caicos estate caught our eye for several reasons. For starters, its celebrity pedigree. The Die Hard actor purchased the land in 2000 and spent four years developing the beachy retreat.
“We’ve made so many beautiful memories on the island,” the actor and his wife Emma Heming-Willis told Architectural Digest. “We fell in love and married there, enjoyed two babymoons on the Cay, and it was on our beach that we renewed our vows.”
The story also has local roots.
Turns out the Joneses, who purchased the property in 2019, are Texas billionaires — self-made ones, at that. Their Westlake-based company, Goosehead Insurance, is currently valued at $3.22 billion, ranking it 2,947th on the list of the world’s most-valuable companies.
According to Page Six, the couple bought the 12-bedroom estate as a vacation home for their six children and 16 grandchildren. The 7.37-acre property sits on 1,100 feet of impeccable beach.
A six-bedroom main house epitomizes indoor/outdoor living. Glass sliders in the common living areas open up to the largest of four pools and extraordinary waterfront views. The primary suite, spanning the entire upper level, boasts a large private balcony.
Kid-friendly amenities abound including a huge children’s entertaining space, game room, bunkhouse, and playground with original pirate ship. For the family, there’s a movie room, shaded yoga pavilion, and beach volleyball court.
The Joneses told The Wall Street Journal they have enjoyed watching their grandchildren spend hours paddle boarding, canoeing, kayaking, and wrestling in the pools. And because the island has barely any vehicular traffic, they mostly get around on golf carts.
So why are they selling?
Mark and Robyn are spending more time in Montana, where they have built an even bigger vacation compound in the Whitefish area to accommodate the family.
“This is too beautiful, too magical a place to not be used all the time,” Robyn told the WSJ.
They were grateful, however, to have been at their Turks and Caicos home throughout the pandemic.
“It was like we had our own dreamy bubble when all this craziness was going on in the world,” said Mark.
The Turks market has been active over the past year, according to listing agent Nina Siegenthaler of Turks and Caicos Sotheby International Realty. Annual sales volume surged to $751 million in 2021 from $290 million the year before.
Forbes called Robyn and Mark Jones “The Unlikeliest Power Couple” and for good reason. Read more about the wife-and-husband team who, in true American fashion, turned a home-grown insurance business into a billion-dollar empire.
