Sprawling La Jolla mansion ‘The Sand Fort’ placed on marketplace for eye-popping sum

A French-inspired oceanfront mansion has hit the Southern California actual property market, carrying a staggering $87.5 million price ticket.

Discovered on the La Jolla shoreline close to San Diego, “The Sand Fort” blends basic European grandeur with oceanside dwelling, standing as one of the bold residential properties on the Pacific.

It was listed for a whopping $108 million in 2024 however has now come right down to a nonetheless eye-watering $87.5 million in 2026.

“A once-in-a-lifetime property, The Sand Fort is magnificent in its stature and choices,” the itemizing reads.

On account of strict fashionable coastal improvement rules, oceanfront estates constructed at this scale are nearly inconceivable to duplicate in California as we speak.

Spanning roughly 13,000 sq. toes throughout a principal mansion and a full visitor residence, the compound options 10 ensuite bedrooms and 14 bogs.

Each room was constructed with a “no expense spared” ethos, mixing Nineteenth-century antiques, elaborate gold detailing and customized mosaics with fashionable smart-home expertise.

The Sand Fort started with an bold idea of making a unprecedented oceanview residence paying homage to grand French manors — most notably Versailles and its famed Petit Trianon — whereas sustaining the consolation and ease of a California seaside home.

Darwin Deason, who based Affiliated Laptop Providers and bought it to Xerox for greater than $6 billion in 2009, picked up “The Sand Fort” and a neighboring parcel for $26 million over 15 years in the past.

Home-owner Deason introduced collectively top-tier expertise to carry the imaginative and prescient to life. The mansion is the creation of architect Drex Patterson of Island Architects and globally acknowledged inside designer Timothy Corrigan. 

The property pairs European structure with sweeping, unobstructed views of the Pacific Ocean and surrounding shoreline.

Protected by a historic Nineteen Fifties seawall alongside 163 toes of ocean frontage, the grounds function seaside terraces, a boathouse and pure sea caves.

The property is being managed by Compass brokers Brett Dickinson and Ross Clark, making it one of many highest-priced residential properties in San Diego County historical past. 

The mansion has a non-public, elevated oceanfront terrace that includes imported white sand sourced to match the feel and high quality of the sand traps on the unique Augusta Nationwide Golf Course and a lavish showcase room that makes internet hosting large-scale occasions a simple process.

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