Larry Ellison Sells San Francisco Home for Record Price

Larry Ellison set a record with San Francisco’s priciest residential sale Francisco of 2025 last month.

The Oracle chairman offloaded his Pacific Heights home at 2850 Broadway for $45 million, the Wall Street Journal reported. The unnamed buyer in the off-market sale was listed in public records as 129 Broad LLC, the San Francisco Business Times reported. Ellison, currently in the midst of a battle to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, bought the Billionaires’ Row home in 1988 for $3.9 million.

The 10,742-square-foot home is next door to 2840 Broadway, which Laurene Powell Jobs, wife of late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, bought in 2024 for $71 million in what remains the most expensive home to ever sell in San Francisco. Other residents on the street include Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and oil heir Gordon Getty.

The five-bedroom manse was originally designed by architect William Wurster in 1958 and redesigned by architect Olle Lundberg in the early 1990s after Ellison acquired the property.

Trophy homes have become Ellison’s specialty, with the executive snapping up some of the country’s priciest properties and building a sizable real estate portfolio from coast to coast and beyond. In 2022, Ellison bought an estate in Manalapan, Florida, previously owned by Netscape co-founder Jim Clark for approximately $173 million. He also owns 98 percent of the Hawaiian island of Lanai and bought a lion safari in Florida late last year for $30 million.

The San Francisco home sale comes as Ellison’s son David, president and CEO of Paramount Skydance, is in a hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. Larry Ellison is financing the effort with a personal guarantee of $40.4 billion in equity financing. Warner Bros. Discovery announced a deal last month to sell most of its operations to Netflix for $72 million, prompting Paramount to launch a rival bid totaling $108.4 billion. — Chris Malone Méndez