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House hunters with cash to burn, there’s a new property coming your way courtesy of the world’s richest man. Last year, Elon Musk casually announced that he would be selling all his mansions to fund a colony on Mars (as multi-billionaires do nowadays).
“I’m serious about this,” Musk said in a recent interview with journalist Mathias Döpfner about the extraterrestrial venture. “And it’s not about personal consumption. Because people will attack me and say, oh, he’s got all these possessions. He’s got all these houses. OK, now I don’t have them anymore.”
Now, in a seeming show of his dedication, Musk has just put his “last remaining house” on the market, a historic home in the San Francisco Bay Area and a professedly “special” part of his real estate portfolio. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO wrote of the listing in a Twitter post yesterday. “Decided to sell my last remaining house,” Musk said. “Just needs to go to a large family who will live there. It’s a special place.”
And what a behemoth the Bay Area property is. Boasting four levels, the home sits on approximately 1,486 square metres of land. On the ground floor, all the markers of a lavish heritage mansion sit front and centre—a ballroom, a breakfast room, a grand banquet room and a high-ceilinged library with a fireplace are just some of the spaces on its first level. Explore further, and you’ll find ten bedrooms and nine and a half bathrooms (the master bedroom itself comes with two baths and its own fireplace). Upstairs, you’ll find a recreation room; downstairs in the basement, a staggering eight-car garage along with a cellar. Oh, and there’s also a professional flower arrangement room, for when you frolic productively in the ground’s gardens. Future owners will truly have all their bases covered.
“It’s an incredible property with so many levels and so much natural beauty,” said a neighbour to the New York Daily News. “It was built by a French aristocrat more than a hundred years ago. When his descendant (Christian de Guigne IV) first tried to sell it several years ago, he came with it. Can you imagine? He wanted to live rent-free until his death. Nobody even made an offer with that requirement.”
Musk first purchased the home back in 2017 for $32.36 million, and listed it for an initial $48 million before reducing the asking price to a more reasonable $37.5 million.
Now though, just days after announcing his ‘semi-separation’ from singer Grime, the Tesla magnate has reportedly pulled the property off the market.
Below, images of the Musk mega-mansion for your perusal.
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