Granite Bay’s biggest home for sale brings French chateau vibes to Sacramento

The largest home for sale in the coveted Sacramento suburb of Granite Bay — rising three stories and spanning 12,000 square feet — commands a hilltop perch and imbues the quiet landscape with French chateau elegance.

At 9300 Touchstone Court, first impressions say it all.

“When you come down the court and see this house — a three‑story home on the hillside — it isn’t like anything else you’ve ever seen,” listing agent Samantha Gray of eXp Realty said. “It’s not your traditional Mediterranean home, it’s not the modern farmhouse you see every day. It is truly spectacular.”

The sprawling estate — with six bedrooms, nine bathrooms — is on the market for just under $5 million. The home sits on 4.1 acres and comes with an additional 1.9-acre parcel.

“It has a private feel,” Sacramento appraiser and housing market analyst Ryan Lundquist said in an email. “The home is positioned at the top of a hill, and it looks down on landscaping with French chateau vibes.“

The property doesn’t whisper luxury — it stacks it, level by level. Gray emphasized that the vertical scale of the mansion is real — no technicalities, no “basement counts as a level” math used here.

“This is truly three stories,” she said. “It’s kind of breathtaking as you drive up to it.”

A legacy home

The marketing description leans into the property’s legacy:

“Welcome to 9300 Touchstone Court, a truly exceptional estate nestled within the prestigious enclave of Eden Roc where grandeur, privacy, and possibility converge.”

Inside, the scale is unmistakable from the minute you walk into the entryway and face a grand, elegant living room with expansive windows, soaring ceilings and a catwalk overhead.

Gray argues the house is designed to function like something quite livable — especially because the main level is set up for daily life to happen without constantly traversing the property.

“For a couple, all of your (day‑to‑day) living space is on one level,” Gray said. “It’s got your kitchen, formal dining, formal living room, family room, office, primary suite, laundry — everything is on this level. That’s why it’s nice. It doesn’t live vast.”

That core level is also where the entertaining starts to announce itself. The formal dining room is spacious, with panoramic window views, a fireplace and access out to a balcony. The interior doors can be closed for dining in privacy. In addition to the formal dining room, a second, slightly more relaxed dining area connects to the chef’s kitchen, while a separate dirty kitchen is tucked out of sight.

All of the bedrooms are expansive and ensuite. The elegance of the primary suite, embellished with an ornate fireplace, extends to its marble-floored, spa-like bathroom.

For a home built to host, Gray pointed to the infrastructure that keeps gatherings moving, including both an elevator and a dumbwaiter serving all three levels, plus expansive storage.

Amenties compound

The amenities continue to compound as you move through the home: private movie theater, large home gym, temperature-controlled wine room that Gray said can accommodate 2,000 bottles, and wellness spaces that pull spa-day features like meditation and massages into the residential footprint.

The wellness wing includes with a trio of heat rooms: steam room, traditional dry sauna and an infrared sauna.

And most of the features are stitched together by a whole-home automation system.

“The home is run by a full Savant System, so everything is automated — from the pool to the lighting and audio. It’s all integrated,” Gray said.

Outside is where the property makes its most unforgettable play. Paul Strauss of Loomis-based landscape designer Red Leaf Development put his touch on the grounds, Gray said.

The description spotlights a pool that doesn’t just sit in the yard — it’s designed into the land itself.

“The spectacular backyard is anchored by a stunning pool featuring a slide artfully carved into the property’s natural granite boulders, an extraordinary and unique design element that blends seamlessly with the landscape,” the property description states.

The owners built an outdoor entertaining zone with its own name and a menu of party-ready features. Dubbed “Vikings Hall,” the space holds an outdoor kitchen, built‑in fireplace, pizza oven and big seating area. It includes a bocce ball court, “industrial‑grade propane heaters” and a table long enough to seat 20 or more for big family gatherings and milestone parties.

A future family compound

Then there’s the land — because 9300 Touchstone isn’t about just selling a large house, it’s about selling the bones of a future family compound. The main home sits on 4.1 acres, and the additional 1.9-acre parcel offered in the front is “fully finished with utilities,” Gray said. The sellers have treated the second lot as part of the estate.

“The sellers have always used it as one property — that’s what they lovingly call the ‘beer garden’ down below,” Gray said.

In a region where homes this large are rare, Lundquist said the property’s size puts it in “unicorn” territory. But the sales pitch here is less about bragging rights than a curated, all-in lifestyle: hosting, wellness, technology, privacy and the kind of outdoor spaces that make the house feel like its own destination.

“People have described it as feeling like a French chateau — like you’re in Napa or at a wine estate,” Gray said. “It’s not something that’s built very often in this area.”

Lundquist agreed that homes offering more than 12,000 square feet of living space aren’t very common in the region.

“Three have only been six sales on MLS this large over the past five years, and two of them have been in Granite Bay,” he said. “Homes above 10,000 square feet are only 0.01% of all sales since 2025, so a size like this is a unicorn in the marketplace.”

Is bigger better?

In 2024, a nearly 13,700-square-foot home in Granite Bay sold for $4.8 million.

“Homes this large aren’t for everyone, and while larger tends to be more valuable, there isn’t always a massive difference in value between two properties when you’re looking at the difference between a 10,000-square-foot home and a 12,000-square-foot home, for instance,” Lundquist said.

“A difference like this would be huge when looking at a 1,000-square-foot home and a 3,000-square-foot home, but when getting massive above 10,000 square feet, it’s not like buyers are only going to be looking at size when assigning a value to a property. Buyers also look at all the amenities the property has to offer: upgrades, condition and especially the layout of the house.“

Since 2021, there have been 15 sales above $5 million in the region: four in Granite Bay and seven in Loomis.

“This shows Placer County has been the dominant force when it comes to the market above $5 million,” Lundquist said.

Yet, he added, there are currently 15 active listings in the region above $5 million, which shows many sellers are aiming for a unicorn price that not many have been able to achieve.

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.