This Bay Area peninsula’s priciest listing seems to hover over San Francisco Bay

Sitting high on one of Marin County’s ultimate lookout points, a newly listed contemporary home in Tiburon stares straight at the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco skyline, with Angel Island and Mount Tamalpais stacked into the same sightline.

In this case, “bay view” doesn’t begin to cover it.

The 4,470-square-foot, four-bedroom, five-bathroom home at 1860 Mountain View Drive has hit the market with an asking price of $19.9 million, positioning it as the town’s most expensive current listing.

The property description leans into the setting with a line that reads more like a travel writer’s lead:

“At the crown of the Tiburon Peninsula, 1860 Mountain View Drive commands a panorama so sweeping it reads like a map of the Bay’s most iconic landmarks: the Golden Gate Bridge, the San Francisco skyline, Angel Island, Sausalito, Belvedere, the Marin Headlands, and Mount Tamalpais.”

The co-listing agents are Alexander Fromm Lurie of City Real Estate and Joshua Deitch of Coldwell Banker.

Tiburon is famously steep and view-driven, and the home is positioned to turn that topography into theater. The house itself is designed to heighten the illusion that you’re floating above it all. The engineering is part of the spectacle: the home is built around a cantilevered steel structure intended to erase the visual bulk of supports and push the eye outward, toward the horizon.

“Designed as a cantilevered, glass-wrapped structure, the residence appears to hover above the landscape, framing the Golden Gate Bridge, the San Francisco skyline, Angel Island, and Mount Tamalpais in one continuous, cinematic sweep,” according to an email from the marketing team.

Glass is the co-star here. A series of extra-tall NanaWall indoor-outdoor disappearing glass doors are meant to peel back the back of the house, turning the main rooms into covered terraces when the weather cooperates. The five NanaWall glass systems are 11 feet tall, a kind of scale that lands differently when it’s paired with a Bay panorama that changes by the hour.

Inside, the home reads as a carefully edited palette of warm woods and stone rather than a sterile showroom: book-matched olivewood paneling, French limestone, Statuario marble, Pacific red cedar ceilings, Venetian plaster and white oak flooring. In practice, it’s a material-forward approach that fits the Bay Area’s current high-end lane: clean lines, tactile finishes, even restraint that still feels expensive.

The two-level floor plan stays relatively simple so the architecture doesn’t compete with the view. The listing describes “an intuitive layout designed for both daily life and effortless entertaining,” all on about half an acre.

There’s also a gym or office that could flex into a fifth bedroom, the marketing email notes, which is the kind of detail buyers at this tier care about because work-from-home isn’t a trend anymore; it’s a baseline for properties.

There’s a primary chef’s kitchen plus a full catering kitchen, both with Miele appliances — infrastructure that signals this residence is built for actual hosting and isn’t just a glass pavilion for watching the sunset.

Outdoors is where the property makes its boldest play. The marketing team calls the grounds “resort-level,” with an infinity-edge pool aligned with the horizon, Ipe decks, flamed granite terraces, and an outdoor kitchen. One detail stands out in a town of dramatic slopes: a level lawn. The marketing email calls it “rare for hillside estates,” and anyone who has house-hunted in Marin or San Francisco knows why that matters — flat outdoor space is functional and a luxury.

The Tiburon lifestyle is baked into the location: hiking at Tiburon Ridge Open Space nearby, ferry access to San Francisco for commuters who want to skip the bridge crawl, and a waterfront restaurant scene.

Owned by Kurt Sturn, through a trust entity, the property last sold for $17.5 million in 2022, according to the public property records.

David Caraccio

The Sacramento Bee

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David Caraccio is a video producer for The Sacramento Bee who was born and raised in Sacramento. He is a graduate of San Diego State University and a longtime journalist who has worked for newspapers as a reporter, editor, page designer and digital content producer.