Tech titan Scott McNealy has listed his Palo Alto, Calif., estate for a whopping $96.8 million — and the asking price includes tons of bonkers perks.
The Wall Street Journal first reported the listing.
“I’m not into sailboats or modern art, and I’m too cheap to fly private,” says McNealy, the former chief executive of Sun Microsystems — which sold to Oracle in 2010 for $7.4 billion. So, instead, the father of four sons opted to splurge on “a home where the boys’ buddies would come to our place instead of driving them all over the Bay Area.”
The kids, now ages 16 to 22, are sports nuts — so the property’s most striking feature is a 7,300-square-foot ice hockey rink. The four boys are also passionate about golf (one of them, Maverick, is a pro); the estate also has a 110-yard practice area with a turf green, a grass green and three traps.
The nearly 28,000-square-foot main house comes with a home theater as well as poker and billiards rooms. The four-level home, which is partially underground and was completed in 2008, also has a 4,700-square-foot gym with a climbing wall and a locker room, a safe room with panic buttons, a spa with a steam room, a sauna and a massage table, a wine cellar and an indoor sports court.
McNealy’s kids especially enjoyed a “pizza room” with a pizza oven and a party space with a dance floor and a disco ball.
To acquire the land to build the house, which now sits on a whopping 581,526 square feet, McNealy bought the first parcel in the mid-1980s; in 2001, he grabbed the second one. Total cost: $11 million.
McNealy and his wife, Susan, have decided to sell the estate because they will soon become empty nesters, and “the house deserves more activity than the two of us,” he told the Journal.
The estate had previously been “whisper-listed,” or not publicly on the market. Now, REX, a real estate startup in which McNealy is an investor and board member, is representing it.