Three of the nation’s most over-bid sales for 2016 were here in S.F.
Over-bidding: that phenomenon by which buyers, pitted against one another for a limited stock of homes, not only meet but exceed the asking price– sometimes by many millions of dollars. The year of...
View Article5 celebrity homes on the Bay Area real estate market in 2016
The late Robin Williams’ estate was a contentious issue even through 2016, but one thing settled: his former Napa home, Villa Sorriso, finally sold for $18.1 million. Williams himself put it on the...
View ArticleTrent Dilfer lists $7M Spanish mansion in Saratoga
On the market for just shy of $7,000,000 is this 5,460-square-foot Saratoga mansion; and the seller is none other than Trent Dilfer. Football fans will recognize Dilfer as a thirteen year NFL...
View Article$25M estate, formerly Bill Graham’s, is Marin’s greenest–and most expensive–...
High on a Corte Madera hilltop, this estate– and with approximately 11 acres and 13,365 square feet of living space, “estate” is no hyperbole– was once the location where the late, great Bill Graham...
View ArticleBelvedere estate of late venture capital pioneer sells for $14.46M
When the estate of the late Tom Perkins, venture capital pioneer in what we know call the Silicon Valley, went on sale in September of 2016 at $16,500,000, its price matched its sweeping grandeur....
View ArticleAtherton: California’s most expensive zip code. Here’s what the $6M median buys
Atherton home sellers can break out that champagne they’ve been saving. Once again, the 94027 zip code is making news for being expensive. This time, according to Time Magazine, Atherton wins the...
View ArticleInfamous De Guine estate finally sells at dramatic discount
[See image gallery at blog.ctnews.com] We’ve visited and revisited the De Guigne estate over the years, watching its drama unfold. Now, finally, the 16,000-square-foot mansion in Hillsborough has sold...
View ArticleWalden Monterey offers high-end communal living on 600 acres
[See image gallery at blog.ctnews.com] This is the year Henry David Thoreau would have turned 200 years old, should he have lived so long. His legacy, of course, lives on in the heart of any fan of...
View ArticleSammy Hagar lists cliffside Hawaii home for $3.3M
[See image gallery at blog.ctnews.com] On the cliffs above Waipio Bay, 0 E Waipio Road awaits a new owner, now that rock star Sammy Hagar has put it on the market. The home offers three bedrooms, two...
View ArticleSan Francisco’s three priciest home sales of 2017
[See image gallery at blog.ctnews.com] In a year of much news: fake, verified, happy, sad, perplexing, real estate news has been equally bizarre. Everything from the tallest mixed-use building on the...
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