Estate, est. 1992
Houses that move at a different speed.
A small private brokerage placing residential architecture above $5 million. Most of the work is shown by appointment. A short collection is published each season.
Featured this season
An eight-bedroom estate above the harbor.
Pacific Heights, San Francisco. Original 1909 millwork, two staff wings, and a working vegetable garden. Photography by the house, on a clear morning in March.
Holdings
- BedroomsEight, with two principal suites.
- LotJust under one acre, descending in three terraces.
- Year1909. Restored 2018, by the same family.
- ProvenanceDesigned for a shipping family; held quietly since 1947.
The house sits high on the slope where the fog forgets to arrive. The principal rooms face the bay. The gardener has been with the family for nineteen years, and the vegetable garden has produced for at least thirty.
The owners are placing the residence privately, with a preference for a buyer who intends to live in it. Inquiries are reviewed in turn, by appointment.
From the principal
A note on what we publish.
We do not list every house we represent. Most of the work moves between owners we already know, or owners those owners introduce. The collection on these pages is a small, edited selection from each season, chosen because the houses themselves earn the attention.
When we publish a property, we publish it slowly. A single photograph. A short paragraph. The square footage, the year, and the names of the architects when those names are part of the house. Pricing is shared in conversation, never in feed.
If a house here interests you, write to the office. We answer every letter, in turn.
Anya SalonenPrincipal, Estate
Recent placements
The houses that have already moved.
We share placements as a record of work, not as marketing. Names of buyers and sellers are never used. Pricing is never published.
Pacific Heights
A waterfront residence quietly placed in the second quarter.
North Salem
An equestrian property exchanged off-market in early spring.
Russian Hill
A pied-à-terre passed between two existing clients.
The collection, in brief
Four houses we are placing this quarter.
An eight-bedroom estate above the harbor
Pacific Heights, San Francisco
Original 1909 millwork, two staff wings, a vegetable garden the family gardener has tended for nineteen years. The house sits high on the slope where the fog forgets to arrive.
A long, low ranch on a quiet canyon
Bel Air, Los Angeles
By a Pasadena modernist, completed in 1962. Restored in 2019 with the original drawings in hand. Fourteen acres including the dry creek bed.
A pre-war duplex on a side street
Upper East Side, New York
Two floors, four exposures, the kind of room proportions that can no longer be built. The family has held it since 1958. They are moving once.
A vineyard residence beyond the village
Healdsburg, Sonoma County
Twenty-two planted acres, a working press, and a stone house finished in 1898. The owner brought a Burgundian winemaker out for the last seven harvests.
Private clients
The work we do not publish.
Most of what we represent is held off the public record by preference of the owners. If you would like to be considered for our private list, write to the office with a short note about the kind of house you are looking for and the geography you keep. We respond within a week, in writing.
Letters are read by the principal. We answer every one.