More Family Compounds

One of my favorite, historic large, possibly family compound, homes is the 1890s six bedroom Victorian at 43 Brighton in Bolinas. This property, featured a few years ago in Sunset Magazine, is listed by Tom Wredberg of Oceanic Realty. You’ll love the in town location … near everything. Listed on multiple listing service for $1,350,000, sold in 2001 for $819,000. It’s back now and has been on the market less than two months …. this beauty is ready for a new owner!

Next up on my list of amazing great bargains as a family compound is the former Full Circle facility at 5855 State Route 1 in Bolinas. This yummy nine bedroom home on 4.7 acres, is listed by Alain Pinel’s Suzanne Shelhart for $1,349,000 (reduced by $1/4M since it came on the market at the beginning of the year). Large property, commercial kitchen and oh so much more …. You read it here, hear? So check it out on my website and then call me. You’d love to see it, wouldn’t you?

Life in a Bolinas compound would be incomplete without the best of the best, an eleven bedroom ten acre three home passive solar compound … with sauna, media room and great views of Bolinas Lagoon, listed by Blanche Streeter of McGuire for $4.495,000 … Let’s go! 20 Rose has a killer knoll top location (click my website, then do the property search for 20 Rose, Bolinas). This home has been on the market before, listed at $7M …. this time it’s a deal that nobody has yet snapped up (4 months of marketing) and you know it’s been waiting for you.

I love the coast – some of you remember The Poet’s Loft and Kaizen, the stilt home in Marshall and the cottage on the bluff I built in Marshall … well, there’s one more beach compound to visit before we return to the core of Marin County … this a real dream and improve property consisting of three cottages in Stinson Beach, right across from the grocery store … 122 – 126 Calle Del Mar …. three one bedroom cottages on approximately ¾ acres with water views. Sad story with a bank being unhappy caused the price to drop from $1,388,000 to $849,000 …. owner needs to sell and buyer will probably need to bring cash to the table to make it work (in my humble opinion). Sandra Parks of Frank Howard Allen is the listing agent but once more, as always, check my website … then call me, email me, yell at me but contact me and let’s talk … this is a great buy for the right person.

Ah, back to the lovely shire of Ross … around a corner or two from me is a listing with Marilyn Rich of Pacific Union – Morgan Lane … this home should be a family compound. 12 Upper Ames Avenue, Ross at $6.5M is a new-to-the-market five bedroom jewel of a home on 1.375 acres that has a LARGE one bedroom guest house by the pool. You’ll see this as having compound potential when we go together to buy it. Just a hop and a step from the recently (almost finished) renovated Ross School and a short jaunt to Branson School, this is the most urban of the properties I put in the ‘Come from Brazil, China and India and live in style with great schools’ compounds.

And then I return to my quaint cottage, awaiting your call. You will call, won’t you?

Posted by:  Tom Verkozen