Beverly Hillbillies Mansion sold for record amount

[bradfordwhite]

And if you're interested in being neighbors to the B.H. manse but have a more limited budget of only $20 million, there is a home just to the NE for sale. Get it while it's hot.

With a neighbors home selling for $150 Mill., how could you go wrong at this price?

The thing is, and there have been articles written, there is a lot of activity in areas like Bel-air, Beverly Hill, Holmby Hills, etc. where perfectly good estates of say 5000 to 10000 s.f. are being purchased and knocked down and absolutely ridiculous structures going up. .....with all the noise, and the ugliness.....that's a real negative. Some of these projects go on for YEARS. Just take a look at aerial maps. Every block there is another drastic project.

As for San Fran. Real Estate. It's always been some of the most expensive ON THE PLANET. All this interest to live on a crowded peninsula with a major earthquake fault going under it and a still operating nuclear power plant and hour south. Thank-goodness that will be shutting down in a few years.
But people want to live there.

It's just as bizarre in Beverly Hills or areas around the North Valley. Both are sitting on top of oil wells. Can't forget about that major gas leak that happened a few years back requiring 10000 people to evacuate their homes.
But people want to live there. lol

 

[askolover]

I'd rather have the Biltmore Estate in NC than anything out there.  But even if I COULD afford something like that, I WOULD NOT. 

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Well, thanks to the area one person I know grew up in he’s gone from his Remax franchise to becoming his own real estate mogul...

Still, for someone price-matching all his stuff when I worked at Walmart (often quite fraudulently) he seems to have grown into a nice guy, and I’d to think for his trade doing hi-price properties, still an average Joe...

— Dave

 

[rp2813]

I seem to recall a story about a request (by Nancy?) to change the address from 666.  It appears the request was granted.

 

Bay Area real estate is nuts for sure, but the potential for a large earthquake is higher in the east bay on top of the Hayward fault, and it's far more urbanized with facilities like hospitals that are vulnerable.  It's the most affordable part of the Bay Area, but that has little to do with the fault.

 

The Diablo Canyon nuclear power facility is located north of San Luis Obispo, about 230 miles/four+ hours south of SF.  It has its own fault (the Hosgri) to cause trouble, although the Hosgri has a history of inactivity.  PG&E is already in the planning stages to shut down Diablo Canyon.   There were no issues after the 6.6 San Simeon quake back in 2003, which occurred on the oceanic fault system.  It's unclear if the Hosgri fault was involved, but even an armchair analyst understands that when one section of a fault moves, other sections or offshoot faults are placed under new pressure.

 

Here are a couple of examples of the Hayward fault's movement over the decades, at UC Berkeley's Memorial Stadium and a curb along a street in the city of Hayward:

 

 

 

[arbilab]

the Hayward

I didn't realize it at the time, but had the Loma Prieta managed to dislodge the Hayward, me and my little stucco castle would have been indistinguishable parts of the same pile of rubble.  The LP ruptured an exterior wall as it was.

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“Nationwide, there are other faults that have the potential for big earthquakes, but they are nowhere near as likely as a big earthquake on the Hayward Fault,” said Chris Wills, an engineering geologist with the California Geological Survey. “This is clearly the most hazardous.”

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