Dianne Feinstein’s Home May List for $8.5M

A 3,600-square-foot house in Stinson Beach at the center of a legal dispute within the family of Sen. Dianne Feinstein may hit the market for nearly $8.5 million.

A multiple listing service for North Bay counties announced the listing was “coming soon” for 325 Seadrift Road, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. The Sherfey Group, part of Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty in Stinson Beach, listed the home on its website.

Both listings describe the four-bedroom, four-bathroom home in Marin County as “one of the just 19 properties that were built along the Bolinas Lagoon in the coveted Seadrift community.”

The Craftsman-style house, built in 1981 on 0.4 acres, has a sitting room, sunroom, office, chef’s kitchen and wood-paneled living room with 20-foot ceilings and glass doors that open onto a 70-foot deck with views of Mount Tamalpais.

The MLS listing says the gray-shingled home will be “on market” Friday, but after a court ruling Monday, it’s unclear whether it will go up for sale.

The U-shaped home was half owned by both Feinstein and her late husband, Richard Blum, in a joint property trust. It’s since become the subject of a legal feud between Feinstein, her daughter and the daughters of her late husband.

After Blum died in February last year, his longtime lawyer Mark Klein took over as co-trustee for the estate. In August, Katherine Feinstein took over as co-trustee for her mother, according to the Chronicle.

Katherine Feinstein, the senator’s daughter from a previous marriage, has power of attorney for her mother and has filed a lawsuit seeking to force the sale of the Stinson Beach home.

Her suit says the senator no longer wants it and “does not want to pay for half the property’s carrying costs.” Feinstein’s stepdaughters wish to keep it, presumably because it will rise in value, according to the Chronicle.

This week, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Roger Picquet refused to force a sale of the property. Instead, he ordered both parties into mediation over the Stinson Beach house and other disputes over Blum’s extensive estate.

— Dana Bartholomew