$50 Million Belvedere Home Is Marin County’s Priciest Listing

In the belly of Bay Area luxury, the priciest and arguably most luxurious home has hit the market, and could be yours for $50 million.

Few places in the U.S. are as exclusive as a cul de sac in Belvedere, the hilly Marin County city of about 2,000 that sits across the Bay and just north of San Francisco. Here, the median home price sits above $4 million, and annual household incomes reach toward $300,000.

Located at 20 Crest Road, “The Crest” is an 8-bed, 11-bath modernist compound surrounded by a terraced, 40,000-square-foot property. Situated atop a hill, the home has panoramic views of the San Francisco skyline, Golden Gate Bridge and Mount Tamalpais.

Built in 1967, the home and property are the work of a pair of giants of California’s modernism strain. Architect William Wurster claims several prominent properties in the state, including the 52-story tower at 555 California Street in San Francisco’s Financial District, as well as Case Study House No. 3 in Los Angeles. The latter was part of a post-World War II architectural series that included names such as Richard Neutra, Charles Eames and JR Davidson. Thomas Church, a pioneer in landscape architecture, was also tied to the property.

For the last half-century, the home was a “retreat” for a family that has since outgrown it, according to listing agent Bill Smith with Compass. It last traded hands in 1979 for $1.2 million, according to Redfin and Realtor.com.

The property’s grounds include a pool, athletic courts, gardens and two-car garage.

Belvedere made headlines last fall when famed former Apple designer Jony Ive went shopping in the wealthy enclave, dropping $73 million to acquire four properties. The priciest buy was a 5-bed, 11-bath mansion on nearby Golden Gate Avenue for $43.5 million. The Belvedere purchases followed a similar spending spree in San Francisco’s Jackson Square neighborhood, where Ive is developing a creative campus for his design collective, LoveFrom, as well as his hardware startup io Products, which OpenAI acquired last year.