This eccentric $39 million San Francisco mansion could become the most expensive home ever sold in the city
- A mansion on San Francisco's Gold Coast is on the market for $39 million.
- If it's sold at the asking price, it will tie the record for San Francisco's most expensive home ever sold.
- The mansion is being sold by Michael and Xochi Birch, a tech industry power couple.
- It features a double staircase with zebra-print carpeting, a Union Jack mosaic above a fireplace, and a pub with an antique bar repurposed from an old British tavern, among other eclectic installations.
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In one of the world's priciest real estate markets, a newly-listed mansion has the potential to become the most expensive homes ever sold in the city.
The 11,600-square-foot home offers stunning views of the coast and combines opulent architecture with eclectic interior design. Its grandiose, manor-like halls are decorated with avant-garde features like zebra-print carpeting and quilted leather walls.
Tech industry power-couple Michael and Xochi Birch, who created the social-networking site Bebo, listed their mansion on the Gold Coast for $39 million. If it sells for that much, it will tie the record for the priciest home sale San Francisco's history, set last year by the sale of venture capitalist Matt Cohler's mansion.
Interior designer Ken Fulk decorated the house, and Deborah Svoboda of Sotheby's has the listing.
San Francisco has seen several home sales over $30 million in recent years, all of which occurred on the so-called Gold Coast - an area that encompasses just three blocks on outer Broadway, according to Svoboda.
The Birch's listing is unique in the Gold Coast because it was built in 2004 and doesn't require any renovations, Svoboda told Business Insider.
Here's a look at the mansion's stunning features.