Hey y’all! When Paula Deen sold her sprawling Savannah estate, Riverbend, in 2020 for just over $6.8 million, it set a record as the highest price ever paid for a home in Savannah, Georgia.
Now, the same 4.62-acre riverfront property, about 10 miles southeast of Savannah’s historic district, has been sold once again. Renamed Vila Sacadura by its northern California owners, it has fetched $8.4 million, reclaiming the title of the most expensive home ever sold in Savannah.
Listing agent Ridley Stallings of Corcoran Austin Hill Realty remarked, “Vila Sacadura is a truly exceptional property, and this sale record underscores how special this iconic piece of coastal Savannah is.”
The estate spans 28,000 square feet and includes 14 bedrooms and 13 bathrooms, spread across the main house, two guest cottages, a dock house, and a customized barn/guest house. The French Caribbean-style main residence alone boasts over 14,000 square feet with six bedrooms and six bathrooms, plus a couple of powder rooms. It features a grand living and dining area with a soaring wood-clad ceiling, designed to handle Savannah’s summer heat and humidity.
The expansive kitchen is the centerpiece of the home, equipped with professional appliances, back-to-back copper sinks, and a large pantry. The property also includes a family room and informal dining area that open to outdoor spaces, a cozy wood-paneled den with a saltwater aquarium, and a spacious primary suite with two fireplaces—one in the bedroom’s sitting area and the other in the luxurious bathroom.
A deep loggia at the back of the house features an outdoor kitchen and plenty of space for dining and relaxation, overlooking the swimming pool and the estate’s 300 feet of river frontage. A charming dock house at the end of the private dock includes a kitchen and bathroom.
The gated, cobblestone driveway leads under a vine-draped pergola to the front of the main house, passing by two one-bedroom, one-bathroom guest cottages. The estate also includes a fully customized, 10,000-square-foot barn with garage space, an entertainment lounge with a wet bar, five bedrooms, and two bathrooms. The property is adorned with magnificent live oak trees draped in Spanish moss, groomed gardens, and a half-acre stocked pond.
The buyer was represented by Taavo Roos at Seabolt Realty. Vila Sacadura was listed by Ridley Stallings and Melissa Hall Rowan of Corcoran Austin Hill Realty, the same team that recently represented the buyer in the record-breaking $6.167 million sale of a downtown mansion, the highest sum ever paid for a private home in Savannah’s historic district.
