A peek inside this $32.5 million mansion in Southern California

This newly built cliff-side mansion overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Southern California comes with an ambitious $32.5 million asking price. It’s one of the most expensive homes for sale in San Diego County, and that price tag puts it in the running to break a local record in the picturesque beach-side community of La Jolla.

Perhaps more interesting than its potentially record-breaking price is the fact that the home was designed and constructed by Las Vegas-based builder Blue Heron, which almost exclusively designs and builds luxury mansions in the Mojave desert.

“I would consider us the authority and the experts in luxury real estate in all of Las Vegas without a doubt,” said Blue Heron’s founder, Tyler Jones, a fourth-generation Vegas native.

Building on the ocean is more similar to building in the desert than you’d imagine, according to Jones. In both environments, Blue Heron’s design is focused on blurring the lines between indoor and outdoor living.

“The Mojave Desert is a great place to do that,” he said. “But arguably, you know, La Jolla, San Diego, is actually a much better place to do that.”

Over the past 18 years, Blue Heron has built several hundred homes — every one of them (except for two in La Jolla) in the Las Vegas area, according to the CEO. Today, the starting price for one of the firm’s more affordable desert homes is about a million bucks, but the average sale price for one of the company’s newly constructed desert mansions is about $8 million. Just last year, Blue Heron made headlines when one of its Sin City spec mansions broke a record when it sold for $25 million to billionaire LoanDepot founder Anthony Hsieh.

About 300 miles away from its core business in Vegas, Blue Heron’s new coastal spec mansion spans four levels with an expansive deck and infinity pool out back on the edge of the Pacific.

A glass bridge floats above a lower lounge area and delivers visitors to the home’s second floor. At nearly 8,900 square feet, the home includes five bedrooms, eight bathrooms and three kitchens.

The mansion, known as the Ora House, is the second residence Blue Heron has built outside of Vegas. The first one, also a spec house located in La Jolla, was on the market for about nine months before selling last year for $20 million. The median price of a single family home in La Jolla was $3.6 million in the second quarter this year, according to data provided by real estate brokerage firm Compass.

So why has a builder who’s been betting big on luxury real estate in Vegas turned his attention to shattering a local record on the edge of the Pacific?