Couple Buys, Destroys $4.2M Home to Improve View

A California couple bought and demolished a home that was standing between their $19 million home and spectacular views of the San Francisco skyline and the Golden Gate Bridge. Money manager Clark Winslow and his wife, who bought their Marin County home in 2008, purchased the neighboring home at auction for $4.2 million after its owners, who paid $7 million for it in 2004, fell behind on their mortgage and abandoned the home, CBS reports.

The Winslows are replacing the five-bedroom home with bushes and trees, giving their 11,200-square-foot home the big yard it had been lacking. Residents of Belvedere—which has the highest per-capita income of any town in the US with a population of more than a thousand—support the demolition. "The house was pretty beat up anyway," a neighbor tells the Marin County Independent Journal. "The people hadn't lived there in the last two years." (More San Francisco stories.)