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Some houses are listed for sale. Others are unveiled. Sits roughly 1,000 feet above the Coachella Valley floor within the guard-gated enclave of the Bighorn Golf Club, the estate first surfaced on the market in late 2021 with an asking price of $49.5 million — an audacious number for the Greater Palm Springs area. It traded in January 2022 for $42 million, then returned to the market in 2025 at $59 million before reappearing at $62 million by year’s end. Few properties anywhere in California have charted a price trajectory quite like it — and few have the architecture to justify the climb.
The House
Completed in 2007 on a 7.68-acre mountainside parcel, the residence was designed by Guy Dreier Designs — the same firm behind several of Bighorn’s most iconic homes. The numbers alone read like a resort’s: 20,667 square feet of living space across seven bedrooms and twelve bathrooms, with more than 32,000 square feet under roof once covered terraces and loggias are counted.
But it is the experiential details that separate 706 Summit Cove from its trophy-home peers. The property is famous for its indoor aquarium — built as a walk-through tunnel — an almost surreal flourish in the middle of the desert. Multiple kitchens anchor the entertaining floors, and a 10-car garage services the motor court. Outside, the estate cascades down the hillside in a series of stone-and-glass pavilions, its terraces framing one of the finest elevated views in the valley: mountains to the west, city lights below.
The Club
A house at this level is inseparable from its address, and Bighorn Golf Club is no ordinary neighbor. The community’s centerpiece is an 80,000-square-foot clubhouse that opened in 2017 at a reported cost of $70 million — sitting at the same 1,000-foot elevation, its swooping roofline designed to frame views of the Mountains course’s 18th green, a lake, and a waterfall. Inside: the celebrated Pour House dining room, card rooms, a glass-oval golf shop, and four custom penthouses.
The golf itself is the draw that built the brand. Bighorn’s Tom Fazio-designed courses — the championship Quarry and the Mountains — have earned the club a consistent place among Golf Digest‘s “America’s 100 Greatest.” Access is priced accordingly: golf membership requires a $250,000 initiation fee and $48,500 in annual dues. Beyond golf, members have nine indoor-outdoor dining venues, tennis and pickleball programs, a high-performance fitness center, and private car service.
The Market Context
What makes 706 Summit Cove worth watching isn’t just its architecture — it’s what it signals. The Coachella Valley’s ultra-luxury tier has been among the most resilient in California, powered by desert modernism’s global cachet, a winter climate with few rivals in North America, and a pandemic-era migration of wealth that never fully reversed.
For a prospective buyer, the calculus is unusual. This is not a house one “needs” in any conventional sense. It is a legacy asset: a compound-scale residence on a golf club lot of institutional quality, in a guard-gated community where the neighboring amenity base operates like a private five-star resort.
Some houses are listed. This one announces itself.
