Jeff Bezos’s Homes: Inside His More Than $500 Million Property Portfolio
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Billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s homes just keep multiplying. When not launching himself into space, he’s on the hunt for another property to add to his already-impressive real estate portfolio. Most recently, Bezos picked up a third home on Miami’s exclusive Indian Creek Island, alongside the two multimillion-dollar estates he purchased there last year. (Reports claim that the billionaire is planning to live in his newest home while he razes the other two, a bold move considering that the 300-acre island only holds 41 properties.) The tech mogul announced his decision to relocate there from Seattle, his home for the past three decades, last fall. “I’ve lived in Seattle longer than I’ve lived anywhere else and have so many amazing memories here,” he shared in an Instagram post. “As exciting as the move is, it’s an emotional decision for me. Seattle, you will always have a piece of my heart.”
Even though Bezos will now call Miami home, he still has a substantial number of properties scattered across the country. In 2021, for instance, the Amazon founder set the record for the most expensive purchase in Maui, Hawai, after he acquired a 14-acre compound there for $78 million in a mysterious deal (more on that later), which brought the value of his real estate holdings to an astronomical $578 million. The Blue Origin founder has also, over the years, picked up several properties in his home state of Washington, a number of New York City apartments, a few sprawling estates in California, a ranch in Texas, and a number of places in Washington, DC. Below, we’ve rounded up all of Jeff Bezos’s homes in the US so far.
Longtime Seattle compound
Empty Benches Overlooking Lake Washington
In 1998, several years after Bezos founded Amazon, he put down $10 million for what would become his primary residence for the next few decades. It comprises two homes measuring 20,600 square feet and 8,300 square feet, respectively, situated on about 5.3 acres in the exclusive Medina neighborhood of Seattle. (Bill Gates also owns a home there.) The estate abuts Lake Washington and features 310 feet of private shoreline, a boathouse, and a water slide. In 2010, the Albuquerque native invested $28 million to renovate the property. That same year, Bezos reportedly bought the property next door, a 24,000-square-foot house that came with an additional five acres. The Tudor-style home was listed for $53 million at the time, but it is unclear what the billionaire ended up paying for it. This most recent addition, which Bezos utilized as his primary residence, included both an indoor and outdoor pool. Bezos still owns this massive compound, despite relocating to Florida.
Manhattan pied-à-terre
Central Park Tree Tops in New York during Autumn
The following year, Bezos reportedly paid Sony Music executive Tommy Mottola $7.65 million for three units in a building called the Century in Manhattan’s Lincoln Square neighborhood. The music executive had reportedly listed the condos while they were still mid-renovation, so it’s likely that Bezos had to invest some money to complete the projects. At the time, it was believed to be used as a pied-à-terre for Bezos and his then-wife, MacKenzie, as well as for his parents, Miguel and Jacklyn Gise Bezos. More than a decade later, in 2012, he reportedly paid $5.3 million for another adjacent 1,725-square-foot unit, expanding his footprint in the historic Upper West Side building. It appears that Bezos still owns these units.
Massive Texas ranch
Houston Chronicle
Bezos scaled up his real estate portfolio with the purchase of Figure 2 Ranch, just north of Van Horn, Texas, in 2004. It’s unknown how much Bezos paid for the sprawling 30,000-acre property, which he bought from attorney Ronald Stasny, who reportedly spent millions renovating the gray stucco, one-story main house originally built in the 1920s. Stasny added a spa in the bathroom, remodeled the kitchen, updated the tile floors, and refinished the porches, he told The Wall Street Journal. Now dubbed Corn Ranch, this land serves as the base of operations for Blue Origin, the aerospace company that Bezos founded in 2000. (Fun fact: Bezos’s purchase marks a homecoming of sorts, since the tech billionaire attended elementary school in Houston for three years while his step-father was an engineer at Exxon.)
In December 2023, Bezos’s partner Lauren Sánchez gave Vogue a helicopter tour of the property, which the publication clocked at over 400,000 acres (it’s unclear when Bezos purchased more acreage). The feature mentioned a so-called 10,000 Year Clock, a subterranean structure built 500 feet underground. (“It represents thinking about the future,” Sánchez said.) The property also includes the Kármán Line Bar, a ranch-style building converted into a bar decorated with space memorabilia, as well as a two-story primary residence with floor-to-ceiling windows, where Bezos and Sanchez’s blended modern family gathers for Thanksgiving.
Beverly Hills compound
The tech magnate then set his sights west, snapping up a Spanish-style mansion in Beverly Hills for $24.45 million in 2007. The 11,891-square-foot home features a total of seven bedrooms and seven bathrooms spread across a main house and a separate guesthouse, and is said to boast a number of outdoor amenities scattered across two acres, including a greenhouse, a lighted tennis court, a swimming pool, fountains, and a six-car garage.
In 2017, he purchased the home next door for $12.9 million. While details of the house are scant, the Los Angeles Times reports that the structure measures 4,586 square feet, with four bedrooms and six full bathrooms. The property features a gated semi-circular drive and a picturesque swimming pool set into a terrace shaded by mature trees. Bezos still owns these homes.
Kalorama, Washington, DC, homes
Bezos made a big move to Washington, DC, in late 2016, snapping up two sprawling mansions measuring a combined 27,000 square feet for $23 million. Built in 1914, the massive pair of homes was previously the site of the Textile Museum and was recorded as one of the largest houses in all of DC. According to The Washington Post, which Bezos owns, the billionaire purchased the property with plans to convert the two adjacent structures into one single family home so that the Bezos family could use it during their visits to the city. Bezos’s neighbors in the Kalorama neighborhood include the Obamas, Ivanka Trump, and Jared Kushner. In 2018, Bezos was reportedly planning a $12 million renovation on the place, including the addition of a “garden room” to one of the two structures.The billionaire hosted his first social fete at the megamansion in early 2020 prior to the start of the pandemic, with an eclectic guest list ranging from Mitt Romney to Ivanka Trump to Ben Stiller.
Bezos kicked off 2020 with the purchase of a second residence in the Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, DC, for a considerably more modest $5 million. According to The Washingtonian, the mansion is located right across the street from his former textile museum home, leading to speculations that his purchase was primarily made for privacy reasons, as the mansion has a direct line of sight into the Amazon founder’s megamansion.
Manhattan megamansion
The Amazon founder splurged on a trio of Manhattan apartments overlooking Madison Square Park in early 2019, paying a total of $80 million. The Wall Street Journal reported at the time that Bezos’s over-the-top purchase could be one of the most expensive real-estate transactions in New York City for the year. (Ultimately, however, a $240 million Manhattan penthouse beat it out.) The acquisition included a three-floor, 10,000-square-foot penthouse with a grand ballroom, a library with a marble and glass fireplace, and a seven-room main suite; a three-bedroom unit below that with high-end finishes like Calacatta marble countertops; and an adjoining four-bedroom pad with oversized windows on three of its four sides.
In April of 2020, Bezos bought a fourth unit in the same luxe Madison Square Park apartment building, dropping $16 million for a three-bedroom adjacent to the two lower-level units from the original purchase. While it was unclear at the time what Bezos’s plans were for combining all four units, building permits were submitted in fall 2019, so it’s likely the fourth acquisition was meant to be an addendum to the already-grand Manhattan megamansion.
Bezos further invested in this dwelling in early 2021, picking up a $23 million unit in the same historic building. This brought his holdings there to $119 million and 24,551 square feet. Bezos still maintains these five units.
David Geffen’s historic Beverly Hills mansion
The start of the new decade proved to be a busy one for Bezos, real estate-wise. In February of 2020, he paid a record $165 million for David Geffen’s historic Beverly Hills mansion. The massive 10-acre estate includes a 13,600-square-foot Georgian-style main house, two guest houses, a nursery and three hothouses, a tennis court, a swimming pool, expansive terraces, and a nine-hole golf course. The grand motor court even has its own service garage and gas pumps. A notable feature of the main house is its antique wood flooring, imported from overseas and believed to be the very floor that Napoleon stood upon when he proposed to Empress Joséphine. That same month, Bezos reportedly spent $90 million on a 120-acre undeveloped plot of land that belonged to the late Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, though the deal ended up falling through.
Several months later, in July, Bezos built upon his Beverly Hills holdings by purchasing the property adjacent to Geffen’s estate for $10 million, a considerably more humble abode that is still nonetheless luxurious by the average person’s standards. Measuring 4,615 square feet, the two-story traditional home features three bedrooms and four-and-a-half bathrooms, with much of the interiors upgraded by the seller. French doors, six brick fireplaces, crown molding, and dark hardwood floors give the property a good amount of historic prestige, while an outdoor brick courtyard and vegetable and rose gardens complete the grounds’ offerings. Bezos still owns both these properties.
Hawaiian compound
Later that year, Bezos purchased a $78 million compound located on La Perouse Bay, setting a record for priciest home on Maui. In a rather unusual move, Bezos bought out the holding company that owns the land rather than purchasing the land outright. The property was never publicly listed, so little is known about the interiors of the home on the land, but the 14-acre property includes a 4,500-square-foot main house and a 1,700-square-foot guest house, both built in the Hawaiian plantation style. A wood-clad outdoor kitchen and deck just off the main house offer the perfect spot for entertaining and taking in scenic views, and there is also a 700-square-foot pool overlooking the property’s private white sand beach. Not a bad vacation spot for Bezos and Sánchez to spend their time following Bezos’s decision to step down as Amazon CEO.
Billionaire Bunker properties
Florida, Miami, Indian Creek Island, country club, golf course on Billionairs Bunker, aerial view
The billionaire took his Amazon retirement one step further in 2023, snapping up two massive properties in Miami in close succession before proclaiming the city his new home base. In August, he paid $68 million for a 2.8-acre waterfront estate on the man-made barrier island Indian Creek, otherwise known as Billionaire Bunker. (Bezos’s new neighbors include Ivanka Trump and Tom Brady.) His first purchase, a modern concrete mansion, originally built in 1965, features three bedrooms and three bathrooms spread across 9,259 square feet. An aerial view of the residence reveals a large motor court and an L-shaped wing that has its own separate driveway and additional parking.
Two months later, Bezos dropped an additional $79 million for the contemporary Mediterranean-style property next door. The dwelling measures a whopping 19,000 square feet, with seven bedrooms and 14 bathrooms. At the time, rumors circulated that Bezos was planning to raze the building to create his own custom home. The luxe residence currently boasts marble floors, vaulted ceilings, and a grand winding staircase rising up from the front foyer. Images of the home, built in 2000, also reveal a wood-burning fireplace with a marble mantle and coffered ceilings in the grand living room and a Tuscan-style kitchen.
In an Instagram post announcing his plans to relocate from Seattle, Bezos wrote: “My parents have always been my biggest supporters. They recently moved back to Miami, the place we lived when I was younger … I want to be close to my parents, and Lauren and I love Miami.”
In April 2024, Bezos again made headlines when he snapped up a third property on Indian Creek Island, this time a $90 million mansion that he purchased in an off-market deal. This third home brings the total value of his properties on Billionaire Bunker to an eye-popping $177 million. The New York Post reports that Bezos plans to live in his newest acquisition while he awaits construction on his previous two purchases—which he is reportedly planning to raze in order to build brand-new residences. His latest property features a 12,000-square-foot, six-bedroom, nine-bathroom main house with red roof tiles and plenty of balconies, as well as an adjacent accessory dwelling unit and swimming pool nestled onto 1.8 acres. An anonymous source told the Post that neighbors in the ultra-exclusive neighborhood may not be happy about the billionaire’s plans for expansion, however. “Property on the island is already scarce, so there is no doubt that Bezos making off-market deals will rile up a few who have been eyeing homes there,” they told the outlet.
Originally Appeared on Architectural Digest
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