The Seacliff home where Robin Williams lived for decades with his then-wife Marcia Garces Williams and their children has found a buyer after more than a year on the market.
The 10,000-square-foot six-bedroom home — which features a secret bar behind a wall in the media room, hidden passageways between the children’s bedrooms and metal iguana and turtle sculptures that appear to be climbing the sides of the oceanfront villa — first came to market in October 2023 with an asking price of $25 million.
After almost a year on the market, the price on 540 El Camino Del Mar came down to $20 million this September and on Dec. 18 it was marked as “pending” on listing websites.
The 1926 Mediterranean-style house sits on a corner lot with nearly half an acre. Steven Mavromihalis of Compass has been the listing agent since it first came to market and did not reply to a request for comment. Mavromihalis is also representing Robert Redford’s $4.15-million Tiburon listing, a hot home in a market with limited inventory, according to Marin agents. It went into contract recently after less than two weeks on the market.
Williams and his then-wife, who was also a producer for the San Francisco-set hit “Mrs. Doubtfire,” bought their Seacliff home for $3.2 million in 1991, according to public records. They divorced in 2010 but Garces Williams was granted the house — which they had remodeled down to the studs, adding in its quirky features.
Garces Williams put the home on the market last year because her two children with Williams are grown and she is ready to downsize, she told the Wall Street Journal at the time. Williams also had another child with his first wife, Valerie.
After his divorce from Garces Williams, the actor and comedian remarried in 2011. The Marin County home where he lived with his third wife, Susan Schneider Williams, and where he died by suicide in 2014 sold for $5.35 million in late 2020 after about a year on the market.
Given that the Seacliff house was also on the market for a while, it’s unlikely that the sales price will cross the $20-million mark. Even so, the sale will likely be among the 10 priciest sales in San Francisco this year, as well as the second-biggest 2024 sale in the neighborhood.
Venture capitalist George Sarlo sold his Seacliff home for its $26 million asking price in July, with the proceeds going to his family foundation.
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