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Crib Notes: Modern Hill Haven estate hits the market at nearly $20 million

May 13
2 min read
The rear facade of 1860 Mountain View Drive in Tiburon’s Hill Haven neighborhood, listed May 5 at $19,995,000. The two-story home features five 11-foot NanaWall stacking glass systems that fold open to the surrounding views, along with an infinity-edge pool, terraced outdoor living areas and a level lawn landscaped by John Merten of Studio Green. (Jacob D. Elliott / JacobElliott.com)
The rear facade of 1860 Mountain View Drive in Tiburon’s Hill Haven neighborhood, listed May 5 at $19,995,000. The two-story home features five 11-foot NanaWall stacking glass systems that fold open to the surrounding views, along with an infinity-edge pool, terraced outdoor living areas and a level lawn landscaped by John Merten of Studio Green. (Jacob D. Elliott / JacobElliott.com)

A modern Tiburon estate, designed so that five 11-foot glass walls fold away to open the great room to panoramic San Francisco Bay views, has hit the market for $19.995 million.

 

The four-bedroom property at 1860 Mountain View Drive in the Hill Haven neighborhood last sold in April 2022 for $17.5 million, the highest recorded residential sale price in the North Bay and San Francisco that year. Owners Howard and Diane Zack are now seeking about 14% more than they paid.

 

The property has repeatedly set benchmarks in Tiburon’s upper-end housing market. Developer Lowell Strauss of Amalfi West purchased the original property in August 2013 for $2.35 million, demolishing a 1959 ranch house that had once belonged to attorney David Ring. Strauss brought in architect David Kotzebue and spent nearly three years rebuilding the site into a cantilevered steel-and-glass residence completed in 2015.

 

Strauss sold the home in February 2016 for $13 million, then a Tiburon price-per-square-foot record, after roughly two weeks on the market.

 

The cantilevered steel frame defines the home’s architecture. By eliminating visible corner supports along the southwest-facing rear wall, Strauss and Kotzebue created a structure that opens almost entirely to the bay.


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