Carmel Highlands’ Seacliff manor lists for $91.35M

Sharon Stone’s home in the 1992 film “Basic Instinct” is up for grabs.

The 12,441-square-foot residence in California’s Carmel Highlands is part of a sprawling cliffside compound. Listing details ooze Pacific romance — rocky beaches, cypress forests and moody ocean views — and none of it comes cheap.

The 5.35-acre property can be all yours for a cool $91.35 million.

The Wall Street Journal first reported on the listing.

The compound, dubbed Seacliff, sits approximately 8 miles south of Monterey and claims an impressive 1,000 feet of picturesque Pacific coastline.

Its grounds, encompassed by a cypress forest, nabbed another Hollywood credit when featured in the HBO hit series “Big Little Lies,” according to listing materials.

“On the whole, Seacliff is perhaps the most dramatic and inspiring oceanfront property I have ever listed or laid eyes on,” said listing agent Tim Allen of Coldwell Banker Realty in a statement.

Owners Gary Vickers, a software entrepreneur, and his wife, Kerry Vickers, attempted to list the compound in 2019 after their children left home, the Journal reported. The $52.37 million listing found no attractive offers, according to the outlet. The family subsequently undertook $11 million in renovations across the property and added an extra 1.31 acres in 2023. 

The “Basic Instinct” house, called “The Lodge,” is the compound’s main residence. That eight-bedroom abode includes three kitchens and 11 fireplaces, the Journal reported. Luxury finishes overwhelm the interiors — a 1,250-bottle wine refrigerator and a 10-burner stovetop here, a sauna and a steam room there. 

The Lodge’s indoor spa amenities are complemented by an outdoor barrel sauna and a cold plunge accessed by a hidden trail. A Zen Garden with raw jade boulders sits nearby.

The Vickerses picked up the main residence and the surrounding land from the estate of Steve Fossett — the first person to circumnavigate the globe in a hot air balloon, and disappeared on a pleasure flight in a small aircraft in 2007.

The Lodge’s two-story library pays homage to Fossett. The Art Deco room’s silver-and-gold-leaf domed ceiling depicts a astronomical mural and its oak bookshelves feature records and photos related to Fossett’s voyages. The memorabilia is included in the sale, the Journal reported.

Elsewhere on the property sit four cottages built by the Vickerses, as well as a one-bedroom residence. The cozy cottages features dry-stacked stonework and oversized, bespoke fireplaces.

“For me, Seacliff was like a jailbreak from the toils of commerce I had been conducting over the prior 30 years,” Gary Vickers said in a statement. “In its creation, I became akin, once again, to the nuances of nature.”

In recent years the estate has been used as a luxury villa rental, the Journal reported, with the Vickerses residing in one of the cottages. 

Since the aborted 2019 sale, Allen told the Journal that interest and prices for surrounding luxury properties have surged. Seacliff’s most notable neighbor, actor Brad Pitt, purchased his own Carmel Highlands home less than an eight of a mile down the road from Seacliff for $40 million in 2022.