The mansion of the former eBay exec, Jeff Skoll, in Los Altos Hills, is listed on the market with a whopping price of $20 million. The 14,855-square-foot property of the billionaire is exactly what you'd like to see in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Built in 1990, the "one of a kind" estate comes with eight bedrooms, 10 bathrooms, seven fireplaces, a garage for eight cars, and over 100 mature trees on over three acres of vast space.
The mansion has great features of intricately designed ceilings, a formal dining room, a living room, an eye-popping rotunda, a family room, a game room with a bar, a wine cellar, and an eat-in kitchen with a pizza oven.
The mansion also has tennis courts, an indoor pool, an indoor climbing wall and a basketball court. Those that prefer to just sit back and relax can spend a wonderful moment in the landscaped lawns and rose gardens of the property, as reported by the Realtor.
While the location of Skoll's home is just minutes from Palo Alto and Mountain Valley, perhaps he no longer needs the proximity to Silicon Valley. The 51-year-old Canadian billionaire also founded Participant Media that produced "Lincoln," "The Help," and "Spotlight." This time, Skoll seems to be focusing his attention in the Los Angeles area. In 2014, the billionaire bought two homes in Beverly Hills.
Variety reported that when Jeff Skoll sold about $2 billion worth of eBay stocks in 2005, he easily did things such as spend $11 million on a solar-powered Beverly Hills mansion owned by David Geffen in the mid 1990s.
He also spent another $6 million to snatch the house next door. The somewhat shabby 3,038-square-feet, faux-timbered Tudor that sits on just over half an acre of lot, has three bedrooms and three bathrooms. The property has a swimming pool in the backyard encircled by flagstone terracing. It also has a tree-framed city view of significant estates owned by Hollywood heavy-hitters such as Tom Cruise, Byron Allen and Kevin Huvane.
