No water, no power, hordes of birds: who will buy San Francisco’s $25m private island?

Red Rock Island, a 5.8-acre hunk of stone with a colorful history, is an outlier in the luxury market. We joined the realtor tasked with finding a buyer

Chris Lim gazed across the water, perched at the hull of a small speedboat hurtling over choppy waves towards the only private island in the San Francisco bay.

The stony cliffs of Red Rock Island loomed in the distance, encircled by seagulls, the noise of traffic on the nearby Richmond-San Rafael Bridge droning overhead.