A renovated 1959 lakefront house at 8781 Lakeside Dr, set on Rubicon Bay with its own sandy beach, sold for $7.02 million, the highest-priced home sale publicly reported in the Sacramento, California metro area for the week ending August 9, 2026. The five leading closings reported across the metro that week combined for $21.55 million in Sacramento-area real estate.
The week’s sales were recorded in South Lake Tahoe, Homewood, Olympic Valley, Penryn and Granite Bay, and their build years run from 1959 to 1994. The list opens on the west shore of Lake Tahoe, moves to a golf-course residence in Olympic Valley, and closes in the Placer County foothills with a gated ranch estate in Penryn and a Folsom Lake view property in the Los Lagos community of Granite Bay.
No. 1 — $7,024,000 · 8781 Lakeside Dr, South Lake Tahoe, California
Lake Tahoe’s west shore produced the metro’s highest reported sale of the week. A 1959 house at 8781 Lakeside Dr, set on Rubicon Bay, traded at $7,024,000, with the closing recorded August 3, 2026. It holds four bedrooms and five bathrooms across a reported 2,128 square feet, with roughly 80 feet of lake frontage and a sandy beach.
Marketed as Heavenly Waters, the renovated home opens its main level to the water. Vaulted ceilings, floor-to-ceiling windows and sliding glass doors face Rubicon Bay, and the great room combines a modern kitchen, a dining area and a sitting area around a wood-burning fireplace. A deck runs along the water side of the house, and every bedroom opens to outdoor space of its own.
The primary suite sits upstairs with a private lakeview deck, a second king suite with its own bath occupies the main level, and the lower level carries an en suite guest bedroom and a bunk room that open onto a further deck. A stairway descends to a private lakefront deck and beach. The property includes two buoys and access to shared HOA beach and pier amenities, and it previously changed hands for $3,300,000 in 2020.
William Dietz of Tahoe Luxury Properties was the listing agent. Lauren Barth of Chase International – TC represented the buyer. The $7,024,000 closing put Dietz at the listing side of RealtyWire’s highest-priced reported home sale in the Sacramento metro area for the week ending August 9, 2026.
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No. 2 — $4,000,000 · 250 Grimsel Pass Rd, Homewood, California
The No. 2 sale came from the same stretch of shoreline. 250 Grimsel Pass Rd in Homewood, a West Shore house built in 1970 and brought to market for the first time in more than 40 years, closed on August 6, 2026 for $4,000,000. It carries four bedrooms, three bathrooms and a reported 2,814 square feet on nearly half an acre.
Cathedral ceilings and a wall of glass face the lake through towering pines and cedars. The open-plan great room is centered on a wood-burning fireplace, the primary suite sits on the main floor, two more bedrooms and a loft occupy the upper level, and a fourth bedroom is set in a private wing beside the laundry room and an oversized three-car garage. The level, fully fenced grounds hold a bocce court, a play structure and a deck, and ownership carries membership in the Tahoe Swiss Village Association, which maintains a private beach, two piers and a buoy field.
Katherina Haug of Sierra Sotheby’s Int Realty TC was the listing agent. Amie L Quirarte of Serhant California, Inc. represented the buyer. The house went under contract 11 days after the current listing date and closed $350,000 above its final asking price of $3,650,000, a transaction that ranked No. 2 in RealtyWire’s Sacramento Metro Area Top 5 home sales for the week ending August 9, 2026.
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No. 3 — $3,750,000 · 3058 Mountain Links Way, Olympic Valley, California
A golf-course setting carried the No. 3 position. 3058 Mountain Links Way in Olympic Valley changed hands August 7, 2026 at $3,750,000, a five-bedroom, six-bathroom residence built in 1994.
The house, at a reported 5,298 square feet, sits on the fourth fairway of the Robert Trent Jones-designed 18-hole course, with layered Sierra views down across the fairways and up to the slopes of Palisades Tahoe. The plan was built for multi-generational use: three bedroom suites are set apart from one another in different areas of the house, and two further bedrooms open off a recreation room and bar. A refreshed kitchen carries Sub-Zero refrigeration, Wolf double ovens and a Wolf gas range, and opens onto decks and patios.
Indoor and outdoor amenities include a resistance swimming tank and a covered hot tub reached through an exterior door, and a room fitted with a sink, bathroom and shower can serve as a sixth bedroom or a gym. The property previously changed hands for $3,550,000 in 2022.
Roland Lawrence of Lawrence Realty was the listing agent. Jamison Blair of Compass represented the buyer. The $3,750,000 sale placed Lawrence at the listing side of the No. 3 transaction in RealtyWire’s Sacramento Metro Area Top 5 for the week ending August 9, 2026.
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No. 4 — $3,450,000 · 2101 Noreen Ln, Penryn, California
Ten acres of gated Placer County ranch land made the No. 4 sale. Bella Tenuta, at 2101 Noreen Ln in Penryn, traded at $3,450,000 in a transaction recorded August 7, 2026, and reached the market for the first time. The farmhouse-style residence holds six bedrooms, six bathrooms and a reported 5,626 square feet.
The property sits on a private street behind a gate, with mature trees and views from a wraparound deck. Beyond the main house, the grounds carry a fully updated guest house, an oversized five-car garage, a custom pool, a bunkhouse, a log cabin, irrigated fenced pastures and a large round pen, and a workshop with multiple access points adds a full bathroom and shiplap interior siding.
Landscaping includes mature fruit trees, raised garden beds and a flower garden, and the estate draws on city water, a well and five inches of irrigation water. Listing materials place it minutes from schools, shopping, wineries and Interstate 80, on the route between Sacramento and Lake Tahoe.
Noelle Borden of Borden Signature Properties was the listing agent. Susan Kolb of Realty ONE Group Complete represented the buyer. The property closed at its full asking price, and the $3,450,000 transaction ranked No. 4 in RealtyWire’s Sacramento Metro Area Top 5 home sales for the week ending August 9, 2026.
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No. 5 — $3,325,000 · 8950 Vista De Lago Ct, Granite Bay, California
A reported 6,328 square feet of Santa Barbara-inspired architecture closed the list. 8950 Vista De Lago Ct, in the guard-gated Los Lagos community of Granite Bay, sold on August 4, 2026 for $3,325,000, with four bedrooms and four bathrooms in a house built in 1991.
The property backs to HOA green space and the Folsom Lake State Recreation Area, and walls of windows and wide decks frame panoramic views of Folsom Lake and the Sierra foothills. The house has been extensively updated since 2019, with custom finishes through a light-filled plan. A bedroom suite sits on the main level, and the primary suite and additional bedrooms occupy the upper floor.
The backyard carries a pool, a spa, a built-in barbecue, an outdoor chess set and several gathering areas, and the house adds a game room, a movie room and a four-car garage. Los Lagos residents have tennis and pickleball courts, fishing, community events and direct access to walking trails. The property previously changed hands for $1,245,000 in 2017.
Kathy Applegate of Windermere Signature Properties Sierra Oaks was the listing agent. Bryon Axt of The Hills Group Realty represented the buyer. The house went under contract 25 days after the current listing date, and the $3,325,000 sale ranked No. 5 in RealtyWire’s Sacramento Metro Area Top 5 home sales for the week ending August 9, 2026.
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RealtyWire selected these transactions from publicly reported residential sales identified for the calendar week ending Sunday, August 9, 2026. The report may exclude private, off-market, delayed or nondisclosed transactions. Prices, property details and professional representation are reported as available at publication and may be updated following confirmation from transaction participants.
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