{"id":440367,"date":"2026-08-22T10:50:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T10:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/440367\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T10:50:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T10:50:35","slug":"the-new-real-estate-must-have-for-the-super-rich-secrecy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/440367\/","title":{"rendered":"The new real estate must-have for the super rich? Secrecy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published Aug. 20, 2026at6:00am<\/p>\n

When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was the victim of back-to-back attacks<\/a> on his San Francisco home this spring, including a Molotov cocktail hurled at his front gate<\/a>, it was the worst nightmare come to life for a certain echelon of Bay Area homeowners.<\/p>\n

The Russian Hill mansion has been somewhat of a curse for Altman, who gained widespread attention in 2024 when his team filed a lawsuit against the builder<\/a>, claiming he\u2019d purchased a \u201clemon.\u201d Once someone\u2019s name is publicly tied to a property, the risks ratchet up.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cVisibility is seen as a liability,\u201d said real estate agent Ken DeLeon (opens in new tab)<\/a>. \u201cThe inherent desire for privacy has been accelerated because of the controversy around AI.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

DeLeon and other agents who work with the ultra-wealthy are tailoring their services and advice to a new class of AI elite<\/a> who put a premium on keeping home purchases private. This secrecy-as-a-service approach affects the entire life cycle of a sale, from the moment a property goes on the market through its renovation period to staffing it with private security.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published Aug. 20, 2026at6:00am When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was the victim of back-to-back attacks on his San…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[2007,388,11853,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-440367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-ai","tag-real-estate","tag-residential-real-estate","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}