07/12/2023
The iconic rotating hole on top of My Helix in La Mesa is for sale. Contact me for a showing!
Repost• Introducing: our Hot Property series. A weekly-ish look at an on-the-market San Diego home. Created for our fellow Zillow scrollers, open house enthusiasts, and lovers of shiny things. More real estate eye candy than an actual resource for house hunting. (Though if you DO buy one of these properties, perhaps we could come over for drinks? We make a mean spicy marg.)
This week’s Hot Property: La Mesa’s iconic rotating home. An architectural marvel (and we don’t say that lightly), it’s the highest home on Mount Helix, perched on a cliff just under the memorial, and it rotates a full 360 degrees, on demand. Which means the views are exactly what you want them to be. Not in the mood for city lights? Spin it. Feel like looking at a different tree? Spin it. Want your dinner party to be naturally lit for a full three hours? Spin it (but just a tad, every so often, and maybe have some Dramamine on hand).
This 4,700-square-foot home has four total bedrooms, three full bathrooms, and a half bath. On the first floor: a 2-car garage with a turntable to rotate cars 180 degrees, a recreation room-slash-granny flat, a full bathroom, and kitchenette. On the second: 3,700 square feet of living space, a rotating deck, a fixed deck, and those massive windows. Fun bonuses: eleven mature fruit trees, a putting green, and solar panels.
4903 Mount Helix Drive is listed by Melvina Selfani for $5.3 million. The half-acre property sold for $265,000 in 1999, and the home itself was built in ’04.
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