The mystery buyer behind San Francisco’s priciest home sale of the year is a limited liability company linked to Katie Schwab Paige, daughter of the famed financier Charles Schwab, The Wall Street Journal can reveal.

The Pacific Heights house, which sold for $42 million, wasn’t publicly listed for sale. It was the longtime home of Brooks Walker Jr., a well-known fixture in San Francisco business and social circles, who died last year at 96. 

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