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Inside a $65,000,000 Beverly Hills Ultra Modern MEGA MANSION

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A six-year teardown-to-triumph project just hit the market for $65 million in the hills above Century City.

Real estate YouTuber Enes Yilmazer takes viewers through 1108 Wallace Ridge, a newly finished spec estate in Beverly Hills’ Trousdale Estates that listed on April 8, 2021 for $65 million. Built by developer Luxford Group with builder Michael Chen and designed by the South African firm SAOTA, the 18,000-square-foot home replaced a multimillion-dollar teardown purchased back in December 2014. Co-listed by Michael Chen and Aaron Kirman of Compass, the property is one of the most ambitious spec builds to hit Trousdale in years.

• 1108 Wallace Ridge was purchased as a teardown in December 2014 for $15 million and took six years to redevelop before listing at $65 million on April 8, 2021.
• The 18,000-square-foot home has seven bedrooms and 14 bathrooms, plus a signature interior courtyard centered on an imported 150-year-old Mediterranean olive tree valued at roughly $250,000.
• The lower level is Trousdale’s only permitted daylight basement, holding a 24-seat 4K screening theater, a 2,000-bottle wine cellar, and a full wellness center with gym and spa.

The Bones of the Build

SAOTA’s design leans hard into glass and water. A glass bridge entrance carries visitors past a series of water features into an open great room finished with piano-key-inspired marble and disappearing glass pocket walls that frame front-row views over Century City. The whole ground floor is built around that sightline — walk in, and the city is already staring back at you.

The formal dining room hovers directly over a water feature, a design move SAOTA and Luxford Group repeat throughout the home to keep every major room tied back to the same water motif that runs from the entry to the courtyard.

The $250,000 Centerpiece

The architectural signature of 1108 Wallace Ridge sits dead center in the house: an interior courtyard built around a 150-year-old Mediterranean olive tree shipped in and set against a 20-foot cascading water wall. It’s the kind of single-object flex that separates a $65 million spec build from a merely expensive one — a tree older than the city of Beverly Hills itself, planted indoors as the literal middle of the floor plan.

A 150-year-old olive tree valued at roughly $250,000 sits inside the home’s courtyard, facing a 20-foot cascading water wall.

Kitchens Built for Staff and Show

The chef’s kitchen runs Dada cabinetry and Gaggenau appliances around a 14-foot leathered marble island, but the real workhorse is tucked behind it: a separate staff butler kitchen equipped with a 16-burner Viking cooktop for catering-scale entertaining. It’s a layout built for someone who hosts, not just someone who cooks — a distinction that shows up again and again in mega-mansions at this price point, much like the entertaining spaces found in Manhattan’s sprawling 8-level townhouses.

Trousdale’s Only Daylight Basement

A spiral staircase wrapped in Venetian plaster drops down to what Compass’ listing calls the only permitted daylight basement level in all of Trousdale Estates — a zoning distinction that matters in a neighborhood where lower levels are usually buried and windowless. Down there: a 24-seat 4K ultra-HD screening theater, a 2,000-bottle climate-controlled wine cellar and tasting lounge, a wellness center with gym and full spa, and multiple ensuite guest suites that open onto their own outdoor terrace. It’s less a basement than a second house, one that happens to get natural light — the kind of amenity stack that puts this build in the same conversation as the backyard resort-style layouts featured in these mansions with backyard waterparks and insane pools.

At $65 million, 1108 Wallace Ridge is chasing the same buyer pool that’s been driving Trousdale’s spec market for the past few years — and with Aaron Kirman and Michael Chen co-listing through Compass, the next number to watch is whatever this one actually closes for once a buyer signs.