Former MLB Player Sells Hunts Point Mansion for $17 Million

A former Major League Baseball player has sold his home in the year’s first big-ticket sale in the Puget Sound luxury market.

MSE Trust, an entity linked to former MLB player Mark W. Ellis, sold the waterfront estate at 8580 Hunts Point Lane in Hunts Point to The Reilly Springs Trust for $17.4 million, the Puget Sound Business Journal reported. Ellis bought the home in March 2019 for $5.8 million.

The 5,540-square-foot house went under contract on Dec. 5 and closed a month later on Jan. 5, nearly missing qualifying among the top 10 most expensive residential deals in the region in 2025. Melissa Boucher of Windermere represented the seller, and Windermere’s Thomas Maider represented the buyer..

Ellis joined the Oakland A’s in 2001 and remained with the team for a decade. In 2011, the same year he left the A’s, the film “Moneyball” was released, which chronicles the A’s’ 2002 season where the team’s general manager worked to compile a competitive squad with a fraction of the money other teams boasted. Actor Brent Dohling played Ellis in the film. After leaving Oakland, Ellis played for the Colorado Rockies, Los Angeles Dodgers and St. Louis Cardinals before retiring in 2015.

The Hunts Point home sits on a nearly 0.8-acre lot with nearly 123 feet of waterfront including a private dock complete with a boat lift. The English Tudor-style mansion has five bedrooms and six bathrooms with various patios, lawns and indoor and outdoor fireplaces.

Hunts Point saw three of the 10 priciest residential sales in the Puget Sound region last year, according to the Business Journal. Amazon executive Jeff Bezos took the top spot, selling his 9,420-square-foot mansion at 4053 Hunts Point Road to Cayan Investments for $63 million. Seventh place went to a 4,340-square-foot home sold by an unnamed retired Microsoft executive for $16 million, followed by 3,821-square-foot property selling for nearly $15.3 million.

— Chris Malone Méndez