For a mere $65 million, you could become the proud owner of one of the most expensive -- and unfinished -- houses in San Francisco.

The neoclassical villa boasts a four-story floating staircase, a glass atrium and a roof of 19th century Florentine tile. But it doesn't have interior walls, floors and ceiling, which will cost about $10 to add, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Monday.

Just down the street from the luxurious-but-incomplete home in the city's Gold Coast area is a mansion carrying a $55 million asking price. Among recent sales the newspaper tracked were a nine-bedroom, nine-bath mansion that sold for $22.5 million, a contemporary home for $15 million, and an Arts and Crafts-style home for $14 million.

Even though the mortgage market is topsy-turvy, the luxurious, high-price housing market remains unruffled, at least in San Francisco.

"What's happening in the luxury market in San Francisco, which starts at around $3 million, is bullish because of the new businesses and building at Mission Bay and the Presidio," said Joel Goodrich, a San Francisco real estate agent specializing in high-end properties. // Copyright 2007 by United Press International

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