Renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz is selling her 65-acre California farm estate just five years after she purchased the property.
Arguably the world’s most famous photographer, Leibovitz has listed the sprawling farm located in Bolinas, California for $8.99 million. She purchased the property for $7.5 million in 2019.
According to the listing, the estate which is known as “The Hideaway” was a site of photographic interest for Ansel Adams in the 1930s.
The homestead, which dates to the 1800s, includes an equestrian facility, a guest house, a caretaker’s residence, a converted garage, a four-bedroom primary residence, and multiple barns. Those include a seven-stall horse barn, a barn for hay, a dairy barn with a recording studio in it, and a barn from the 1930s with a performance stage.
Leibovitz says she didn’t spend as much time at the property, which is about an hour away from San Francisco, as much as she had hoped to.
“I had always thought of myself as a California person,” she tells The Wall Street Journal.
“I went to school there, at the San Francisco Art Institute. I learned to be a photographer there.
“When Rolling Stone moved to New York in 1977, I didn’t think that I was moving too. I didn’t believe that I went to New York to stay. I thought I lived in California. But the work was in New York. Or Europe.
“After all those years living and working in New York and raising my children, I dreamed about returning to California.”
Eager to move back to California and believing her eldest daughter was going to college in the Bay Area, Leibovitz bought the estate for $7.5 million just before the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Leibovitz plunged $2 million into upgrading the infrastructure during her five years of ownership.
“We planned to partner with a legendary farmer over the hill to bring the place back to its former self as a working and teaching farm,” Leibovitz says but “things don’t always go as planned.”
Leibovitz’s daughter decided to go to college in the Northeast and she rarely found herself at her new compound hence why the photographer decided to list the property.
It comes just months after Leibovitz sold her duplex apartment in New York City’s Upper West Side for $10.62 million.
Image credits: Header portrait (left) of Annie Leibovitz by Robert Scoble and licensed under CC BY 2.0 and header photo (right) and real estate photos by Jacob Elliott for Compass.
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