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The nine-bedroom, seven-bathroom Georgian home is owned by Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett and includes a professional-quality studio, billiards room, sun room and lounge — and it's yours for a cool $10.5 million.
The nine-bedroom, seven-bathroom Georgian home is owned by Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett and includes a professional-quality studio, from which its future owner can live out his metal fantasies deep into the night (maybe with a pal barking out orders from the control board, to make it seem more real). Just think: Kirk Hammett sat here.
Before he was Rolling Stone magazine’s 11th-greatest guitarist in the world and the owner of large Pacific Heights mansions, Hammett was just a scrubby kid running around El Sobrante with his guitar. He was playing lead guitar for a thrash-metal band called Exodus when Metallica tapped him to replace overly drugged-out guitarist Dave Mustaine in 1983.
Twenty-five years later, Hammett is still with Metallica, whose members have come a long way from their days of sleeping on couches and partying with fans after the show.
Hammett’s Pac Heights pad bears no scars from rock-star partying. Instead, it resembles more the home of a dignitary or captain of industry than of a rocker with multiple piercings. It is a classic of its period, with box-beam ceilings, wide staircases, high ceilings and preserved woodwork.
The home has four levels, including the basement, which contains the aforementioned studio plus a very clubby billiards room. All nine bedrooms, plus a sun room, are on the two top levels. On the main floor, living, dining and gourmet kitchen are joined by a morning room and a lounge — everything an established thrash-metal guitarist could need.
The home at 2505 Divisadero is listed by Sotheby’s agent Mark Levinson. It was on the market for 475 days at $12.5 million before a $2 million price reduction left it at $10.5 million.
WHERE: San Francisco
ASKING PRICE: $10,500,000
PROPERTY TAX: $136,500*
THE PROPERTY: Nine bedrooms, seven bathrooms, 9,519 square feet; 1899 Georgian mansion on top of Pacific Heights.
NOTABLE: Recently returned to market with a $2 million price reduction; owned by Metallica’s Kirk Hammett.
AGENT: Mark Levinson, Sotheby’s International Realty, (415) 441-5500.
* Estimate based on 1.3% of asking price.
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Examiner Reader said:
San Francisco real estate sells in an international market that makes us compete with billionaires from around the world. This place will probably be bought by someone that already owns a half dozen other residences. You could get twice the house in a number of other cities for a fraction of the price, but it's location, location, location.
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Soothy Sayer said:
Real Estate Sellers, like bankers, are becoming one of the most despised occupations. WAAAY back in Bibical times it was a sin to charge interest. And these real estate people have pumped up fictitious absurd greedy inhuman unhumane gluttonous prices for properties. This is an OLD house, granted the likes of which a new generation will never be able to live in or afford. This typifies the greed and sinfulness of that past generation. SHAME SHAME SHAME to the owner and the real estate people. It is NOT worth 55 million.. maybe 155,000.00 and then please have the stucco work, painting and garage door opener working, or is this too much to ask?
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Peter George White said:
Whenever I look at the Real Estate Section, especially at these little homes in the Sunset or elsewhere, that twenty years ago were priced at $100K or less, I just "sigh" and also angry. None of these cheap rowhouses, many of them built in the 30's and 40's for around $10K or less (much less), are not worth the asking prices of 2008. A RECESSION IS A GOOD THING ! SF IS ABSURD ! JUST ABSURD !!!!!!!! And clearly not worth the greedy prices.
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King of the Dynasty said:
How is it that a mega-million dollar white elephant that can't find a buyer is called "hot property"? The tacky additions and lousy plaster work done on this Pacific Heights mansion will require millions restore. I'm taking a pass and investing in baseball cards this year.
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