Great news for would-be Napa Valley property owners, comedian Robin Williams’ fabulous estate is back on the market. And it’s been marked down!
From $35 mil to $29.9 mil, but hey, a discount’s a discount.
Do rich people think like us, by the way? Are they all, “Twenty-nine-nine, OK, but 30 big ones, no way!’? I know I always feel better about paying $99.99 for shoes than blowing my budget on a $100 pair.
The house is called Villa Sorriso and is set on the Mayacama hills between Napa and Sonoma. For your $29.9 million you get nearly 20,000 square feet that includes five bedrooms, an oak-paneled library, a home theater, an elevator, safe rooms, climate-controlled cellars for your art and, of course, wine, and a tower and bridge. The villa sits on 653 acres and includes an infinity-edge swimming pool and a seven-stall horse barn.
I don’t want to brag, but there are safe rooms in our house, too. For instance, if the basement is piled high with dirty laundry it’s safe to say I’m the only person who’s going to be down there.
The real estate listing posted the first time the house went on the market, in 2012, was written quite poetically and talked up both the wildness of the property and the fact that it’s within 80 minutes of the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco, creating “a wilderness so convenient, yet so wild and haunting, that it summons even the softest city dweller.” I guess they’re going for the Green Acres dynamic.
Back in 2012, I noted that the listing showed a billiard room complete with billiard table. Which I thought would be convenient if you happened to have Prince Harry visiting, since the royal had recently demonstrated a complete lack of billiard skills. You’d think after two years I’d be willing to let that cheap joke go.
You’d be wrong.
