PHOTO COURTESY COLDWELL BANKER The former Round Top Drive home of actor Richard Chamberlain was sold to a European financier for $4.4 million. The home on two acres overlooks Waikiki and Diamond Head.

Chamberlain sells
Round Top home

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Star-Bulletin staff

An offshore financier has bought actor Richard Chamberlain's Round Top Drive home for $4.4 million.

According to Coldwell Banker Pacific Properties, which facilitated both ends of the deal, it is the largest recorded sale on Round Top in five years.

The four-bedroom, three-bath main house and two-bedroom guest house command views of the Pacific Ocean, Diamond Head and downtown Honolulu. A separate office and an art studio are also on the property, which spans two parcels totaling just less than two acres.

Coldwell Banker Vice President Sachi Braden, who represented the buyer, said he was excited to purchase a property owned by a celebrity.

Braden would not identify the financier, except to say he was affiliated with the European trust company named on the deed.

PHOTO COURTESY COLDWELL BANKER Prior to buying the four-bedroom home, the new owner consulted a feng shui master in mainland China.

He plans to live on Oahu part time. "This is going to be his third or fourth house," she said.

Other than the beauty of the property, the spirituality of the place, which had impressed Chamberlain as well, appealed to the buyer, according to Braden.

The buyer consulted with a feng shui master in mainland China, she said. "This guy's never been to Hawaii, but he just puts his hand on the paper and says this is the best location on the mountain in Hawaii," said Braden. "It gave me chicken skin."

She had shown the buyer oceanfront lots and had reservations about the Tantalus parcels. "I hesitated, I was afraid it would be too rainy," she said. "But when he felt the spiritual nature of the place he said this is the one."

Braden said a tennis court is among the improvements planned by the new owner.

Coldwell Banker Vice President Tracy Pflueger Bryan, who represented Chamberlain in the sale, said the actor put the property on the market because he was interested in moving on to other things.

"He's a creator and he's a designer. He wants another project," she said. That project will involve another Hawaii property owned by Chamberlain.

"He loves Hawaii and he has no intentions of leaving it," she said.