Presidio Heights’ 331 Arguello withstood the Great Earthquake of 1906 and, in a twist of good fortune for lovers of all things Victorian, the many quakes that followed thereafter. The hundred-plus-year-old home is now for sale, asking $4,595 million.

Curbside, this beautiful Victorian is iconic, historic San Francisco. Architectural details have been preserved, painted and polished.

Victorian embellishments have been lovingly highlighted.

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Note intricate wood carving and embellishment, ornate gables, stained glass and the pitched roof promising a romantic, secret attic-like upper level. This 4,223-square-foot home is picture perfect.

The romance of the upper level draws the eye up.

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Back in the early 1900s, a trolley ran down Euclid Street and ended in front of the house. That history is clearly present more than 100 years later. Though it has been well-preserved, this home features important and attractive improvements.

The living room enjoys plentiful natural light.

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The current owners explained to SFGate that one such improvement is the actual size of the home, though you’d be hard-pressed to see an seams in this expansion. “A woman stopped by who said she played there with a friend when young in the ’50s and the house was one-half to two-thirds the size,” one owner said.

The owner also said the home “survived both the ’06 and ’89 earthquakes on its original brick foundation, which has since been replaced.” Other updates include the home’s configuration. Now, the property is a duplex, and each unit could be sold separately.

Unit A sprawls across more than 3,100 square feet and offers two bedrooms, two baths, plus two primary suites (so an additional two bedrooms and baths, making the total offering four beds and four baths).

A formal dining area features original wainscotting and a working fireplace.

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Unit A’s kitchen is a chef’s dream.

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The home features a well-stocked chef’s kitchen and a charming and completely finished upper level, which looks out on the city through artful windows.

Going up the dramatic staircase, note classic architectural details.

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One of the spacious primary suites offers views and a private drawing room/lounge.

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This top level bedroom cries out for a poet.

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Preserved stained glass in the upper bedroom add artful neighborhood views.

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This unit also offers an extensive roof enclosed in plexiglass so that the space can be enjoyed in any weather.

Modern skylights placed cleverly in Unit A bring light and brightness into these still very much Victorian spaces.

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The roof deck blocks SF wind, offering weather-proof enjoyment.

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Unit B is a smaller abode with two bedrooms and two baths, as well as a beautiful kitchen. Outside, a classic Victorian garden beckons.

Unit B has its own entry way.

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An open floor plan blends living, dining and kitchen areas.

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The lower level kitchen is spacious and well-equipped.

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This is one of the two lower unit bedrooms.

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Lower unit residents will enjoy a gorgeous patio and protected alfresco dining access.

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There may be options with this property. Two buyers could buy Unit A and Unit B separately; a single buyer could buy the entire home and rent one of the units while living in the other; one buyer could buy the building and rent both units. But according to listing agent Michell Nuñez (who co-listed this property with Dan Fitzpatrick), the sellers most hope for an offer from a buyer who will treat the home as a gorgeous single-family dwelling.

The lot is 3,018 square feet and offers a backyard and garden.

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“The current owners have called Unit A home, but have thoroughly enjoyed the flexibility of using the spacious downstairs unit for both work and play,” she said. The owners’ families live in the South and East Coast, so having the downstairs unit was so wonderful for their family,” she said.

“Although both units may be sold separately or legally rented, they hope that one family can enjoy the benefits of owning the entire home.”

Anna Marie Erwert writes from both the renter and new buyer perspective, having (finally) achieved both statuses. She focuses on national real estate trends, specializing in the San Francisco Bay Area and Pacific Northwest. Follow Anna on Twitter: @AnnaMarieErwert.

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San Francisco may have suffered a painful population loss in 2020, but the city’s luxury real estate market is now rolling back like fog from the bay. Expensive home sales and prices are skyrocketing, and one particularly confident high-end developer just got one special house in Cow Hollow for $ 46 million.

If that were achieved, it would be one of the most expensive sales ever in San Francisco, which has one of the highest income inequality rates in the US and according to data it lost 4 percent of its population in May a migration report from the analysis company Placer.ai.

Despite these strong headwinds, Neal Ward, the realtor for 2582 Filbert Street, a newly built six bedroom mansion on triple the width of lot, is optimistic about the city’s prospects. “After a very uncertain 2020, the market took off in March 2021 in ways we have never seen or expected,” he told Robb Report. “What made San Francisco and Silicon Valley wonderful living environments is now being brought back to life after a sleepy Covid, and the city’s pulse has never felt stronger.”

The main living area goes into the back yard if the owner so wishes.

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Retiring “families and influencers”, he said, have been replaced by “an enormous number of new upstarts” [who] have been very successful. ”Awards, he said, are supported by San Francisco’s“ limited geography and available properties ”. The $ 46 million price tag, he says, isn’t as unusual as it seems. “While other properties exist at much higher prices, they are not for sale or are not publicly marketed.”

One recently report by Compass supports Ward’s optimism. Sales of four or more bedrooms rose 22 percent year-over-year, while the average selling price of a home in Pacific Heights, just around the corner from 2582 Filbert Street, rose to a new high of $ 6.75 million a year is to this day (although there were only 16 sales, the supply is so tight.)

A living area at 2582 Filbert opens onto a terrace with a fireplace inside and out.

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The 12,200-square-foot house is spread over three levels, with each floor being approximately 4,000 square-feet. The house is an emblem of biophilic design, a new trend in which a house is built to prioritize natural materials, light, ventilation, and technology for filtering air and water. This room has a cornucopia of energy-saving and wellness-promoting facilities: solar collectors, pollutant-free paints, triple-glazed windows and doors, rainwater harvesting and a MERV-13 air filter system that changes the indoor air nine times a day.

Another living room in 2582 Filbert with an indoor fireplace.

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Inside, the 19-foot high motorized front door (accessible via biometric entrance, of course) opens to a two-story atrium with a 30-foot stone wall. The prospective buyer can also find a floating glass staircase and reflective indoor pools. Further exploration reveals three indoor fireplaces and two outdoor fire pits, a fitness room with a terrace for open-air workouts, a 72-foot lap pool and built-in stainless steel spa, a separate “wellness spa” with a glass sauna and steam shower with waterfall chromotherapy -Rain head. Other delights include a private movie theater, wine bar, Tesla Powerwall, and must-have lighting fixtures that “mimic natural shapes like water waves, plant vessel systems, lightning bolts, and other fractal shapes.”

Outside, a small but very well-kept garden behind the house has a stone terrace, a lawn, an outside kitchen and evergreen plants to hide from the neighbors. The upper floors also open to terraces, while the roof is crowned by an outdoor lounge with views across the bay from the Golden Gate Bridge to Alcatraz.

The roof terrace offers a breathtaking view of the city and another fireplace.

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According to the developer of the house, Gregory Malin, CEO of Troon Pacific, the look is “San Francisco meets Los Angeles. An open, airy, modern, newly built house on such an extensive plot of land in San Francisco is unique. “

Ward is even more exuberant: “The residence is one of the rarest and most epic properties that San Francisco has ever seen, or will ever see again.”

Check out more photos of the spec house below:

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