The view from the kitchen sink at this newly completed Malibu estate stops people mid-sentence. Standing at the oversized basin with its two faucets, you can track the ocean all the way to the horizon, then pivot and take in the Santa Monica Mountains behind the pool. That dual perspective, ocean on one face, dramatic hillscape on the other, is not an accident. It is the result of a deliberate decision to push the entire 12,000-square-foot structure to the very edge of a 1.28-acre corner lot, surrendering the front of the property to the Pacific and letting the land behind the house breathe into a wide, private backyard. Few estates in Southern California manage both at once, and this one, listed at $21,500,000, makes a convincing case for how the trick is done.
Why the house sits where it sits
The RMCI Group, the developer behind the project, chose to compress the building footprint toward the ocean perimeter rather than centering it on the lot. That single site decision cascades through the entire experience of the home. The great room and both primary bedroom suites face the Pacific directly, while the backyard opens behind the structure with enough surface area for a rectangular Pebbletec pool, an elevated Ipe deck with limestone-cased fire pit, a travertine-clad outdoor kitchen with dual-elevation bar seating, and a fully retractable gym wall that folds the fitness room into the yard at will. The street sits at a slightly higher elevation than the plot, which adds a layer of acoustic and visual privacy without requiring a fence tall enough to interrupt the mountain sightline.
The outdoor kitchen runs travertine across the island base in a waterfall edge, and the covered dining section above it uses the same wood paneling found inside the great room, running the full length of the overhang to give the ceiling a sense of extra height. One detail that Enes Yilmazer flagged as genuinely uncommon: the exposed structural beams on the covered patio are wrapped in stucco rather than the standard wood or metal cladding, matching the home’s exterior finish exactly. ‘It gives it a softer feeling,’ he noted, ‘you don’t see it that often.’
Sixty feet of open living and two proper primary suites
Inside, the great room runs a 60-foot span anchored by motorized sliding glass panels that pocket into the walls and a double-height ceiling finished in oak paneling that continues unbroken to the exterior. The kitchen uses two oversized islands both clad in bookmatch-cut Pietra Gray Marble, all-oak cabinetry, and a Miele gas range with a vent tucked flush into the surrounding millwork. A separate chef’s kitchen wraps the corner with a second Miele range, open shelving, and a casement window trained on the ocean.
The wine cellar off the left wing earns its space. Limestone walls meet a steel rack system where metal rods angle outward from a welded backing plate, the welds hidden on the reverse face so the visible surface reads as a clean geometric grid under warm backlighting. Both primary suites are full-sized, each with two closets, two water closets, two sinks, two shower heads, two handhelds, a marble-clad fireplace, and an outdoor shower accessible from the bathroom. The development itself places the home within an enclave of only 18 residences spread across 80 acres. Technically the address falls within Ventura County rather than the City of Malibu, a jurisdictional boundary that gives the RMCI Group more latitude to build single-story homes at this footprint and scale.
The desk with an ocean window
The office sits near the entry, positioned so that a client or colleague can walk in directly from the motor court without passing through any bedroom wing. Two Eames chairs face the main desk across an alabaster-sconce-lit room with a wood-panel ceiling and a skylight.
The cobblestone motor court out front accommodates 10 to 12 cars alongside a 3-car garage, framed by a steel gate with oak paneling.
In the second primary suite’s closet, a small window was cut into the cabinetry at eye level. From inside a wardrobe, facing outward through that aperture, the Pacific Ocean is still visible.
