Highest price listing
ASILICON Valley home that just hit the market is the area’s highestpriced listing, asking a whopping $A176.5 million ($F275.9 million).
The estate sits on a massive 74 acres of land and is made up of 32 bedrooms and 26 bathrooms.
The property, located in Woodside, is making a splash in the San Francisco Bay Area market, offering more than 2220 sqm of living space.
Known as Green Gables, the opulent property was constructed for a banker, Mortimer Fleishhacker, starting in 1911.
The entire compound now consists of seven homes in total, and has been held by the same family for five generations.
“There may not be another estate of this size in the country [that] can offer its owner such an unusual combination of privacy, panoramic views and multiple living options,”
Brad Miller, one of the Compass co-listing agents, told Realtor.
“The estate is also surprisingly close to the town’s shops, restaurants and the school in Woodside, one of the wealthiest and most vibrant enclaves in the heart of Silicon Valley,” Miller added.
Features of the property include a stadium-size Roman pool and panoramic views of California’s Pacific Coast Range.
With the scaled main house and carefully designed gardens surrounding the six additional homes, other amenities include two more swimming pools, a tennis court, an artist’s studio, a barn and a rustic, two-storey stone tea house.
One of the pools is built as a free-form pool shaped around a colony of oaks. The Roman pool, located steps from the main house, is built to look like ruins.
Three of the bedrooms contain original furnishings, and there is a game room with hand-carved furniture.
Additional structures include a home from the 1970s with its own pool, an estate manager’s cottage, a modernist-style six-bedroom home and two buildings from the 1860s that have since been updated.
There is also an expansive, spring-fed reservoir — supplying much of the estate’s irrigation needs — and a flower and vegetable garden.
Aside from edible gardens and flower gardens, the grounds also have a lily pond, orchards and olive groves.
The home boasts two private roads, wooded trails and — according to the listing — offers the potential for a vineyard and equestrian centre.
In 1965, it was the site of a gala for the 20th anniversary of the United Nations.