“If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster,” Clint Eastwood once said. And if you want to live like the award-winning actor and director, you can buy his former home in Carmel-by-the-Sea for $21 million.
The 100-year-old Spanish-style house that once housed the star of “Gran Torino,” “Unforgiven” and “Dirty Harry” is being listed as a historic landmark for the first time in decades at San Antonio & 9th SWC, according to the Robb Report.
Eastwood, the former mayor of the small Central Coast town, bought the house known as Las Ondas in 1981 and sold it to Frederick O’Such in 1996 for $2.25 million.
O’Such, the current owner, then invested $2.5 million and spent two years renovating the approximately 1,000 square meter property.
In its current state, the three-story, 4,500-square-foot stone-clad home stretches over impressive views of Monterey Bay.
Built in 1924, the four-bedroom, five-bathroom home is located behind a private gate surrounded by cypress trees, one street from Carmel Beach.
It features vaulted ceilings with exposed mahogany beams, cherry wood floors, plaster walls, a media room, a temperature-controlled wine room, two laundry rooms, and numerous nooks and crannies both indoors and outdoors.
Broker Tim Allen of Coldwell Banker Realty’s Carmel-by-the-Sea/Junipero office is holding the listing in conjunction with the Coldwell Banker Global Luxury program. The listing was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
Eastwood, 94, is a native of San Francisco and fell in love with Carmel in the early 1950s while serving as a private at Fort Ord in nearby Monterey.
In 1967, he purchased 283 acres of land along Highway 1 near Malpaso Creek, south of the Carmel Highlands. A year later, he and James Garner purchased another 340 acres in Carmel Valley.
The actor, producer and director of over 100 films and television shows now lives in Tehàma, an exclusive 2,000-acre private residential enclave in the hills of Carmel that he founded.
The houses in Carmel do not have street addresses, but there are efforts to change that because delivery services and taxi drivers cannot find their destination, the Associated Press recently reported.
— Dana Bartholomew
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