San Francisco’s city attorney has sued two people accused of forging the deed to a $4.4 million Sea Cliff mansion eight separate times in just over a year, according to a lawsuit filed this week and reported by the San Francisco Standard. The house at 250 32nd Avenue has racked up more than $324,000 in unpaid property taxes and over 30 police dispatches since the alleged scheme began.
Brandon Aadee and Diana Peng are named as defendants. Aadee’s record includes convictions tied to Hurricane Katrina aid fraud, credit card fraud, identity theft and receiving stolen property, while Peng has prior convictions for identity theft, commercial burglary, forgery and perjury, according to court filings cited by the Standard.
The first forged quitclaim deed was recorded on July 30, 2025. Between May 13 and August 26, 2026, the property changed hands between Aadee and Peng six more times, bringing the total to eight recorded transfers in 14 months. Ten different notaries’ names appear across the paperwork, and several told investigators they never performed the notarizations attached to their signatures, per ABC7 News.
The 1911 home has four bedrooms, three bathrooms, roughly 3,000 square feet and a view of the Golden Gate Bridge. The surrounding Sea Cliff neighborhood averages closer to $5 million per property. Tax delinquency on the address passed the five-year mark on July 1, 2026.
Key Points
- The city attorney’s office alleges an unlawful scheme to obtain ownership of the property through forged, fraudulently notarized deeds filed with the SF Assessor’s office
- The lawsuit asks a judge to void the fraudulent deeds and block the defendants from profiting off a future sale
- The address has drawn 30-plus police dispatches in 16 months and 18 separate 311 complaints since 2023, ranking among the most-called residential addresses in the city over the past two years
In its complaint, the city attorney’s office wrote that the defendants are effectively trying to steal a house and sell it to make millions in profit, according to ABC7’s reporting on the filing. Hoodline reports the case has exposed gaps in how county assessor offices catch repeat, rapid-fire deed transfers before they draw enforcement action.
Neighbors on the block have described months of unease over unexplained overnight activity at the property, including a reported break-in and a major water-main flood in August 2026 that drew city crews to the address. The case is now before the San Francisco Superior Court, with no trial date yet set.
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