There’s a provenance of politics and pugilism attached to a Pacific Heights home that has hit the market for just under $3.8 million, or $1,320 per square foot.
The home belongs to Jan Zivic, daughter of former welterweight boxing champion Fritzie Zivic, who bought it from San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie in 2019, in the months before the onset of the pandemic. Zivic is now looking to get about even on a sale of the 2,875-square-foot, three-level house at 80 Wilmot Street, a quiet one-way alley just off Fillmore Street.
“It was very difficult to decide to sell the house and leave the neighborhood and the people who care about each other,” Zivic said via the Skall+Glassman team at Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty, which is marketing the house. But, she noted, “I wanted to live closer to my daughter.”
Zivic, a former city library commissioner and executive recruiter, bought it from Lurie for around $3.7 million or roughly $1,270 per square foot, according to PropertyShark. Lurie’s half brother, Alexander Fromm Lurie, executive vice president of growth at City Real Estate since January, represented Lurie in the sale. Lurie nabbed the property in 2005 for $2.3 million, or $800 a foot, property records indicate.
The modernist home with a loft-like layout features three bedrooms and two-and-a-half bathrooms. It was designed by architect and interior designer Richard Brayton, co-founder of Brayton Hughes Design Studios, as his personal residence in 1994.
“It is a fabulously designed home in the best neighborhood in the city, in walking distance of Japantown, and some of the best restaurants and retail shops in all of SF,” Zivic said.
Details include a sculptural metal staircase that ascends from the entry, connecting all three floors beneath a skylight. It was “originally intended for a spiral staircase that was never installed,” according to the Skall+Glassman team at Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty, which is marketing the house.
“This was the street transposed into the house,” Brayton said in a 1996 SFGate article. “Essentially, it’s a European-style covered alley crowned with its own skylight. It’s narrow and has its own circulation. Naturally, it made sense to have a stair that let in light.”
Subsequent updates by Van Acker Construction Associates include a private garden patio with fireplace.
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