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Price for Over 14 Acres of Paradise Reduced Nearly 70 Percent

Price for Over 14 Acres of Paradise Reduced Nearly 70 Percent

Positioned as “the largest remaining undeveloped residential waterfront parcel in Marin County, and possibly the entire San Francisco Bay Area,” the 14.5-acre parcel at 2800 Paradise Drive in Tiburon, a parcel which includes around 2,000 feet of San Francisco Bay shoreline and has already been entitled for the development... Read More »

Musk’s Massive Silicon Valley Estate Sold for $30 Million

Musk’s Massive Silicon Valley Estate Sold for $30 Million

The resale of the 47.5-acre Silicon Valley estate at 891 Crystal Springs Road in Hillsborough, which Elon Musk purchased for $23.364 million in June of 2017 and returned to the market priced at $35 million last year, has closed escrow with a contract price of $30 million having been... Read More »

Auctioned Estate Resells “Well Below Appraised Value”

Auctioned Estate Resells “Well Below Appraised Value”

Marketed by Sotheby’s with a $47.5 million price tag back in 2012, subsequently reduced a number of times and listed for as little as $15.99 million in late 2017, “Woodhaven Manor” – which was built in 1988 and includes a 12,000-square-foot main home, a 1,200-square-foot carriage house and a... Read More »

Landmark Mansion on the Market for $5.85M

Landmark Mansion on the Market for $5.85M

Known as “Nobby Clarke’s Folly” back in the day, the 8,395-square-foot Alfred E. Clarke Mansion at 250 Douglass Street, which occupies the southwest corner of Caselli Avenue in Eureka Valley/Corbett Heights, is now on the market with a $5.85 million price tag. Built for Alfred “Nobby” Clarke on the... Read More »

Serenity Estate Finally Trades at 60 Percent Below Original Price

Serenity Estate Finally Trades at 60 Percent Below Original Price

Custom built 14 years ago, the 101-acre Alamo estate at 10 Serenity Lane is centered around a nearly 13,000-square-foot “chateau,” with a state-of-the-art, 12,000-square-foot car barn/museum that can accommodate up to 20 cars; a 1,600-square-foot pool house with a one-bedroom apartment; an eight-acre gentleman’s vineyard with mature vines; and... Read More »

A High-End Pad Fetches Eight Figures Under Its Original Price

A High-End Pad Fetches Eight Figures Under Its Original Price

Having undergone an extensive renovation by The Wiseman Group back in 2006, the nearly 9,000-square-foot mansion at 2590 Green Street, on the border of Cow Hollow and Pacific Heights, returned to the market priced at $32 million in October of 2019. “Meticulously designed to capture the essence of inspired... Read More »

Muted Appreciation for the Ghirardelli Mansion

Muted Appreciation for the Ghirardelli Mansion

Purchased for $4 million in late 2012, the 6,500-square-foot Piedmont mansion at 636 Highland Avenue, which was built for the Ghirardelli family in the early 1900’s, resold for $4.65 million in October of 2016, representing total appreciation of 16.3 percent for the restored East Bay mansion over those four... Read More »

Modern Mansion Atop Mount Sutro Has Sold

Modern Mansion Atop Mount Sutro Has Sold

Designed by John Maniscalco Architecture and built for a solar energy entrepreneur and engineer on a 5,271-square-foot parcel atop Clarendon Heights, near the crest of Mount Sutro, the modern 7,440-square-foot home at 150 Glenbrook Avenue hit the market priced at $22 million this past August. Walls of windows frame... Read More »

Massive ‘Sorry to Bother You’ Mansion Trades at a Loss

Massive ‘Sorry to Bother You’ Mansion Trades at a Loss

As we outlined in March of last year: Designed by John Hudson Thomas and built for John Hopkins Spring, a real estate developer, in 1914, the 12,000-square-foot Spring Mansion which sits at 1960 San Antonio Avenue in the Berkeley Hills and was modeled on the Achilleion Palace in Greece,... Read More »

Tech Mogul’s Silicon Valley Lair Now Listed for 55 Percent Less

Tech Mogul’s Silicon Valley Lair Now Listed for 55 Percent Less

Speaking of big reductions, as we outlined in September of last year: Having hit the market with a bit of fanfare and an $88 million price tag back in 2015, the 21,400-square-foot Los Altos Hills home at 27500 La Vida Real was quietly listed behind an undisclosed address for... Read More »