- Amazon founder Jeff Bezos simply offered his Seattle mansion. He and fiancé Lauren Sanchez moved there about 18 months in the past and personal $237 million value of property there. The Seattle mansion sale was the most important on file for Washington state.
Amazon founder and billionaire Jeff Bezos simply offered his Seattle mansion after practically two years of dwelling in Miami together with his fiancée Lauren Sanchez. It’s the costliest residence ever offered in Washington state, the Puget Sound Enterprise Journal first reported final week, at an eye-popping $63 million, property data present. The property was offered to Cayan Investments LLC.
Bezos, who’s value greater than $200 billion, in accordance with the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, purchased the 9,420-square-foot property in 2019, the identical 12 months as his divorce from novelist and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott. He purchased it for $37.5 million, so he made greater than $25 million from the sale.
The sprawling mansion sits on 3.27 acres within the elite neighborhood of Hunts Level in King County, Wash., which overlooks Lake Washington. It’s nearly 7 miles away from Amazon headquarters in downtown Seattle and different main tech corporations like Microsoft, Apple, and Google. The common residence worth there may be practically $8 million, in accordance with Zillow. Residence costs in Seattle have been rising ever because the metropolis grew to become a tech hub, and now it’s one of many priciest housing markets within the nation.
Bezos’ former Washington residence has three bedrooms, 4 bogs, an elevator, large walk-in closet, a secondary kitchen, a rooftop terrace, and a glass walkway that connects the property to a two-story guesthouse. The mansion stretches greater than 300 ft throughout Lake Washington’s waterfront.
Based on property data, the house was beforehand owned by late artwork collector and luxurious journey govt Barney A. Ebsworth, who was additionally one of many preliminary buyers in Construct-A-Bear.
Bezos and Sanchez made the transfer from Seattle to Miami a couple of 12 months and a half in the past, claiming the explanation for the change was to be nearer to his mother and father.
“My parents have always been my biggest supporters,” he posted to his Instagram account, including that his aerospace firm Blue Origin is more and more shifting operations to Cape Canaveral in Florida. Sanchez just lately took a Blue Origin flight to house with Katy Perry and Gayle King.
Seattle had additionally been Bezos’ residence ever since he began Amazon in 1994.
“I’ve lived in Seattle longer than I’ve lived wherever else and have so many wonderful recollections right here,” Bezos stated in his Instagram put up asserting his transfer. “Seattle, you will always have a piece of my heart.”
In the meantime, it’s additionally been speculated Bezos made the transfer to Miami to keep away from paying a capital good points tax. In March 2023, a Washington State Supreme Courtroom determined to uphold a 7% tax on capital good points, which might’ve grow to be more and more pricey for Bezos.
“Florida is very, very favorable for someone like Jeff Bezos,” John Pantekidis, managing associate and common counsel at TwinFocus, which manages over $7 billion for ultra-high-net-worth households, beforehand instructed Fortune’s Alicia Adamczyk. “They make it very cost effective for folks like Jeff to live down there. It’s ideal, it’s nirvana.”
Now he and Sanchez reside in a three-mansion compound within the extremely unique Indian Creek neighborhood in Miami, often known as the “Billionaire Bunker.” Bezos purchased his newest Miami mansion in 2024 for $90 million, bringing the entire worth of property he owns in Indian Creek to about $237 million. The most recent property he bought is a six-bedroom, nine-bathroom mansion spanning greater than 12,000 sq. ft. There are solely roughly 40 properties on the island, in accordance to Robb Report.
Different celebrities together with Tom Brady, Ivanka Trump, and Jared Kushner have lived on this 300-acre gated neighborhood, which is “one of the wealthiest, private, most secure communities in Miami Beach, and the world,” in accordance with Florida-based luxurious actual property agency the Mild Group.
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