Atherton Villa Seeks Buyer for $58 Million

A mansion in Atherton just hit the market for the highest asking price in the tony Peninsula enclave so far this year.

The newly completed Villa Anahid at 349 Walsh Road is for sale for $57.5 million, the San Francisco Standard reported. The property spans a 13,000-square-foot residence and is named after the Persian goddess of water and light — fitting for a home complete with a waterfall and infinity pool.

The seller of the property is an unnamed LLC that bought the site in 2020 for $4.5 million, per PropertyShark records cited by the Standard. The owner bulldozed a smaller midcentury home on the property to erect the recently finished mansion. The new home is designed by Mike Khalesi of Beverly Hills One.

The house is listed for sale by Mary and Brent Gullixson of Compass, who earlier this year worked with billionaire tech investor Marc Andreessen to sell his 12,000-square-foot home in Atherton for $27 million, or 10 percent under listing price. Other high-profile Atherton residents both past and present include Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and former Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg.

Atherton has been home to the country’s most expensive ZIP code for nearly a decade, but the Peninsula town recently lost its top spot to Miami Beach’s Fisher Island. The median home sale price in Atherton for the first nine months of the year hit a record high of more than $8.3 million, compared with $9.5 million for Fisher Island.

The priciest sale in Atherton so far this year was a $52 million transaction for the home of tech executive Stephen Luczo and his wife Agatha, founder of the Furtuna skincare company.

Earlier this month, another luxury home in Atherton spanning 17,000 square feet hit the market for just shy of $50 million. The 1.4-acre estate at 88 Tuscaloosa Avenue, listed by Joe Piazza at Coldwell Banker Realty, is available for $49.9 million.

— Chris Malone Méndez