- Jeff Bezos announced that he's moving to Miami after 29 years in Seattle.
- He snapped up two mansions in the city's "billionaire bunker" and leaves behind eight properties in Washington.
- He has a massive real estate portfolio and is the 25th-largest landowner in the US, per the Land Report.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has amassed a real estate portfolio that rivals that of some of America's biggest property owners. He's the 25th-largest landowner in the US, according to the 2024 Land Report, with at least 420,000 acres to his name.
His collection includes two properties in Indian Creek Village, an island off the coast of Miami, where he announced in November he'd be relocating with his fiancée Lauren Sanchez. He also owns eight properties in Seattle, his former home.
Bezos' Seattle-area real estate empire is worth as much as $190 million, based on Zillow estimates.
"I've lived in Seattle longer than I've lived anywhere else and have so many amazing memories here. As exciting as the move is, it's an emotional decision for me. Seattle, you will always have a piece of my heart," Bezos wrote on Instagram in November, announcing his move. He added that he wanted to be closer to his parents and space company Blue Origin's operations in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
In August, Bezos made his first known Miami purchase, spending $68 million on a waterfront mansion. Two months later, he paid $79 million for the mansion next door. And he may not be done: Bloomberg reported he's sent representatives to chat with at least three other residents of the island, known as the "billionaire bunker," about buying their homes.
It's not the first time Bezos has spent jaw-dropping amounts on real estate: In 2019, he dropped about $80 million on three adjacent New York City apartments in the priciest-ever real-estate deal south of Manhattan's 42nd Street. The following year, Bezos purchased the nine-acre Warner Estate in Beverly Hills for $165 million from billionaire David Geffen. At the time, it was the most expensive home ever sold in California's history.
Bezos, worth $178 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, purchased several properties with his former wife MacKenzie Scott. Their divorce was finalized in 2019, and it's unclear which of these properties Bezos still owns, as divorce records were not made public.
From two neighboring Beverly Hills mansions to multiple estates in exclusive Seattle suburbs, here are Bezos' residential properties in the US.
Caroline Cakebread, Katie Warren, Dominic-Madori Davis, and Libertina Brandt contributed to an earlier version of this article.
Jeff Bezos has spent millions of dollars amassing a collection of residential properties over the years.
A 2022 Land Report named Bezos the country's 24th-largest landowner, with 420,000 acres to his name.
Over the years, he's picked up several New York City apartments, a ranch in Texas, and homes in Washington state, California, and Washington, DC.
For years, Bezos' home base was a nearly 24,000-square-foot estate in Medina, Washington.
In 1998, Bezos paid $10 million for 5.3-acre property in the wealthy suburb on the shores of Lake Washington.
Twelve years later, in 2010, he spent $45 million on an estate nextdoor, the Puget Sound Business Journal reported.
One home is a 20,600-square-foot, five-bedroom, four-bathroom house with a basement spanning over 5,000-square-feet and five fireplaces. The other is an 8,300-square-foot, five-bedroom, four-bathroom home built in 1940.
He purchased the property next door in 2010 under Aspen Ventures LLC, The Wall Street Journal reported. That lot has a 24,000-square-foot Tudor-style, six-bedroom, six-bathroom mansion and had a listing price of $53 million.
Finally, in 2015, he purchased a $3.9 million property across the street from the Medina compound, Business Insider previously reported. The comparatively smaller property is likely for staff or guests, and was purchased through a trust managed by the same law firm, and with the same property tax address, as the other Medina properties Bezos and Scott purchased before their divorce.
