By Charles Swanson
A Tiburon residence owned by the actor and filmmaker Robert Redford has sold for half a million dollars above asking price, less than a month after it was listed.
As reported by the Wall Street Journal, the residence at 2517 Mar East St. was sold for $4.65 million, according to the Compass real estate firm.
The split-level home was listed at $4.15 million on Dec. 2 by Steven Mavromihalis of Compass.
The wood-shingled residence has four bedrooms, two and a half bathrooms, a large family room, a two-car garage, a garden and more than 1,000 square feet of decks overlooking San Francisco Bay.
The home was built in 1968 and personalized by Redford, 88, and his wife, the artist Sibylle Szaggars Redford, “to take advantage of the unspoiled views and their indoor-outdoor lifestyle,” Mavromihalis said in a Dec. 10 email.
The Redfords have a long history with and great affection for the town of Tiburon, and they enjoyed the house’s light-filled rooms and bay views, the couple said in a statement. The pair said they were also attracted to the privacy that the home offers, as it sits ringed by redwoods on a quiet, unpaved cul-de-sac that does not get a lot of traffic.
Still, the couple decided to sell the house as they spend more time in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where Szaggars Redford has been creating new art and focusing on her gallery, Sibylle Szaggars Redford Fine Art.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the buyer is a trust linked to Cricket Wardein, owner of fitness studio chain Mighty Pilates. The chain has seven locations throughout the Bay Area, including Larkspur, and in Los Angeles.
Wardein, who opened the first Mighty with friends in 2009 in San Francisco, told the Wall Street Journal that she was “thrilled” to purchase the property.
The last sale of the property was in 2020, when it sold for $3.1 million, according to real estate websites.
The median house price in Tiburon was $3.93 million in November, according to the most recent data from the Marin County assessor’s office. Countywide, it was $1.63 million.
The Independent Journal contributed to this report. Distributed by Tribune News Service.
