Los Angeles, known for its unusually opulent real estate, is adding a new architectural spectacle to the listing market: A $118 million mansion designed to look like a superyacht.
It’s a 12-bedroom, 17-bathroom house in Bel Air known as "La Fin." It hit the market in late June as the fifth priciest listing in the neighborhood, according to Homes.com.
More than its sheer size, the residence “is over the top with amenities,” listing agent Shauna Walters told Homes.com in an interview.
“You feel like you’re in a resort when you’re there,” she added. “You don’t feel like you’re even in the city.”
Indeed, the mansion comes with the expected high-end amenities, including a gated motor court, a wine cellar, a gym, a pool and a spa. But it goes beyond the expected. There’s also a 44-foot chandelier made of 55,000 crystals, a hand-carved stone fireplace, a TV that rises from the pool, a six-car elevator display, an ice-cold vodka tasting room, a rock-climbing wall, extensive staff quarters and a commercial-grade catering kitchen.
“It’s completely covered in bells and whistles,” Nicole Plaxen, a co-listing agent, told Homes.com.
The listing team includes Sally Forster Jones of Compass; Tomer Fridman and Aaron Kirman of Christie's International Real Estate SoCal; and Branden Williams and Rayni Williams of The Beverly Hills Estates. Walters and Plaxen are also with The Beverly Hills Estates.
A mansion built for a foreign royal family
It’s not the first time the home has been on the market since it was revamped by a developer. Walters and Plaxen said the home initially listed in 2022 for $139 million.
“He came out at a really tricky time,” Walters said.
Now, the developer and team of agents are taking a different approach: a lower price, and the option to pay in cryptocurrency.
They think that will help draw a buyer, likely a wealthy foreign family, according to Walters and Plaxen.
“In the last year or so, we’ve definitely seen [foreign buyers] trickle back and there have been some big purchases,” Plaxen said. “It’s good to see confidence back and to get them back in that.”
So far, the agents have shown the property to buyers from Saudi Arabia, China and Russia, they said.
“It was made … for a royal family,” Walters added.