Last February, Academy Award-winning actor Anthony Hopkins listed his longtime retreat in Malibu for $11.5 million. The property sold just recently; the acceptable offer received was $10.5 million.

The 4,000 square-footer sits on a bluff in the Point Dume neighborhood, where it surveys the Pacific and offers excellent views. The house is designed as an East-meets-West Coast design, with Cape Cod architectural features and Mediterranean design elements combining into an effective and unpretentious amalgam of styles.

The house, setting, and property combine into a potent indoor/outdoor living style, and the two tiled patios on the waterfront side of the property certainly helped sell this property in fairly short order. The lot extends to about an acre, a substantial size for this corner of Southern California. A pool and large lawn stand between the house and the Pacific.

The interiors of the 1958-built home boast fine materials, from plank hardwood, pine, and terra-cotta tile floors, as well as a series of cozy features that culminate in a spiral staircase. It’s also a bright and fairly contemporary home, however, with a great deal of glass; living spaces include a solarium overlooking the ocean.

Hopkins had owned the property for nearly two decades when he put it up for sale earlier this year. He purchased it for $3.8 million in the spring of 2001.