CASEY FARMER September 4, 2025
A 10-acre estate has sold in San Luis Obispo, California, for $7.5 million, setting a price record for the Central Coast city.
Prior to the sale, which closed last week, the record had been held by a 176-acre property with a 5,700-square-foot home that sold in 2009 for $6.8 million.
“This year, we’ve definitely seen an increase in sales above the $6 million range,” said Lindsey Harn of Christie’s International Real Estate Sereno. “More and more, we’re seeing an increase of very high-end luxury buyers moving to the area.”
The infinity-edge pool overlooks the nearby golf course and rolling hills. David Lalush, Aspect Visuals
Harn and her colleagues Colleen Clarke and Rob Rose brought the home to the market in April with a listing price of $8.2 million.
It’s the first time the property has sold since its nearly 7,000-square-foot mansion was built. The seller, who couldn’t be reached for comment, bought the property in 2006 for $1.45 million, records show. The house was built two years later.
The estate is perched above the Edna Valley overlooking vineyards, a nearby country club, rolling hills and even the Pacific Ocean in the distance.
The theater has a hand-painted ceiling mural and wood paneling made from a walnut tree that fell near the property. David Lalush, Aspect Visuals
The style of the two-story home was inspired by the designs of Greene and Greene, a Craftsman-era architectural duo that was based in Pasadena, Clarke said. While many of those Craftsman-style homes were bungalows, the San Luis Obispo home takes on the same concept of being built into the surrounding environment. Aspects like a low-profile roof and a natural-colored stucco help blend it into its hilltop environment.
“As an example, for the home’s driveway, they didn’t clear cut the lot and then put the driveway in and plant trees on either side,” Clarke said. “The driveway was designed to go up through existing oak trees.”
Wood accents are heavily featured throughout the home, but are especially notable in the “immersive” home theater, which has an Art Deco design, a hand-painted ceiling mural of the galaxy and wood paneling that was made from a walnut tree that had fallen nearby during construction, according to Clarke.
There are six bedrooms and six bathrooms, with a primary suite that has a soaking tub, a marble shower with 11 shower heads and a six-person sauna.
Outside, there are three travertine patios, a koi pond and an infinity-edge pool that’s positioned to take in the view.
The property is a short drive from the beaches, downtown San Luis Obispo and SLO County airport, which services both commercial airlines and private planes and has drawn more high-net-worth home buyers to the area, Harn said.
And though San Luis Obispo is seeing an uptick in high-priced properties, they’ve yet to regularly reach the eight-figure price level of many of its coastal Californian counterparts.
“When you look where else you can get this lifestyle, you can go down to Montecito, Santa Barbara, Pebble Beach and Carmel, and we’re still actually quite a value compared to a lot of these other high-end, luxury communities that are just an hour and a half to two hours away,” Harn said.
The buyer, whose information was not yet available in public records, is someone who was already “familiar with the area” and was looking for a home spacious enough to host their large family, Clarke said. They were represented by Kristi Donati of the Avenue Central Coast Realty.
Article originally published by Mansion Global.