A hilltop Laguna Beach home that was the residence of architect Mark Singer is on the market with an asking price of $9.9 million, along with a home he designed next door for the same asking price.
The properties at 1100 and 1101 Balboa Ave. can be bought separately or together. The homes were off-market listings earlier this year with an asking price of $11 million each or $22 million together.
The home at 1100 Balboa Ave., Singer’s last residence before he died in 2015, sits on slightly more than one acre at one of the highest points in the city; the home has two bedrooms and three bathrooms.
Across from the home’s kitchen is an open veranda with ocean views and a covered dining room. The 5,797-square-foot home has a guest house and a spa and swimming pool with arching fountains. Its garage can hold up to four vehicles and has a custom Porsche lift system and houses Singer’s woodshop.
There is also a separate building Singer used as a personal office, according to listing details.
The 1101 Balboa Ave. home was a onetime residence of Singer before he sold the property in 1999 for $2.2 million to its current owners and built the next-door home, according to property records. The 4,382-square-foot property, on nearly two acres, has five bedrooms and four bathrooms, including a “casita style” guest house anchoring the home’s swimming pool.
Singer designed homes for nearly 30 years as well as commercial and retail projects, restaurants and art galleries. He also had a passion for building furniture. The late architect is credited with introducing contemporary styles to Laguna Beach.
Michael Johnson and Paulo Prietto of Compass have the listing for both homes.
$16M Panoramic View, Emerald Bay
A Laguna Beach clifftop home with a front row seat to the ocean traded hands last month for $16 million.
The 7,078-square-foot property at 199 Emerald Bay is described as one of the largest parcels in Emerald Bay with nearly 100 feet of ocean frontage.
There are five bedrooms and six bathrooms; one bedroom is a master suite, which occupies nearly an entire floor and opens to a terrace. A private gate also gives the new owners direct access to the beach.
Other features of the home include a spa overlooking the cove, terraces that connect to the home’s living room for an open floor plan, honed limestome and bleached woods.
The property has been on and off the market since 2016, initially asking $22.5 million before its last asking price of $17.9 million in June, according to listing details.
Details on the buyer and seller were not immediately disclosed.
Rob Giem and Maura Short of Compass held the listing. John Stanaland of Villa Real Estate represented the buyer.
Hole in One
A onetime area home of Seattle software mogul Frank Pritt—known for his Portabello Estate in Corona del Mar that listed for a whopping $75 million in 2006 and sold four years later for a reported $34.1 million—is on the market.
This home in Newport Coast is going for a little less; it has an asking price of $10.9 million.
The 7,135-square-foot residence at 28 Pelican Point Drive has five bedrooms and five bathrooms. There are three bedroom suites on the upper level, one bedroom suite on the main floor and a lower suite that was turned into a home gym and spa.
It has an enclosed courtyard and covered loggia, salt water pool and spa.
Located inside the guard-gated community of Pelican Point, the home also offers ocean and golf course views and is a short walk away from the community’s private access point to Crystal Cove State Beach.
Pritt, founder of software firm Attachmate Corp., now Micro Focus, sold the home to its current owners in 2006 for $7.5 million, according to property records.
Michaela McCloskey of Surterre Properties has the listing.
