Famend photographer Annie Leibovitz is promoting her 65-acre California farm property simply 5 years after she bought the property.
Arguably the world’s most well-known photographer, Leibovitz has listed the sprawling farm situated in Bolinas, California for $8.99 million. She bought the property for $7.5 million in 2019.
According to the listing, the property which is called “The Hideaway” was a website of photographic curiosity for Ansel Adams within the Nineteen Thirties.
The homestead, which dates to the 1800s, contains an equestrian facility, a visitor home, a caretaker’s residence, a transformed storage, a four-bedroom main residence, and a number of barns. These embody a seven-stall horse barn, a barn for hay, a dairy barn with a recording studio in it, and a barn from the Nineteen Thirties with a efficiency stage.
Leibovitz says she didn’t spend as a lot time on the property, which is about an hour away from San Francisco, as a lot as she had hoped to.
“I had all the time considered myself as a California individual,” she tells The Wall Street Journal.
“I went to high school there, on the San Francisco Artwork Institute. I discovered to be a photographer there.
“When Rolling Stone moved to New York in 1977, I didn’t assume that I used to be transferring too. I didn’t imagine that I went to New York to remain. I assumed I lived in California. However the work was in New York. Or Europe.
“In spite of everything these years residing and dealing in New York and elevating my youngsters, I dreamed about returning to California.”
Keen to maneuver again to California and believing her eldest daughter was going to varsity within the Bay Space, Leibovitz purchased the property for $7.5 million simply earlier than the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.
In line with The Wall Road Journal, Leibovitz plunged $2 million into upgrading the infrastructure throughout her 5 years of possession.
“We deliberate to companion with a legendary farmer over the hill to deliver the place again to its former self as a working and educating farm,” Leibovitz says however “issues don’t all the time go as deliberate.”
Leibovitz’s daughter determined to go to varsity within the Northeast and she or he hardly ever discovered herself at her new compound therefore why the photographer determined to checklist the property.
It comes simply months after Leibovitz sold her duplex apartment in New York Metropolis’s Higher West Facet for $10.62 million.
Picture credit: Header portrait (left) of Annie Leibovitz by Robert Scoble and licensed underneath CC BY 2.0 and header photograph (proper) and actual property photographs by Jacob Elliott for Compass.